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Michigan State Welcomes 1965-66 Teams Back to Campus for 50-Year Reunion

By Steve Grinczel, MSUSpartans.com Online Columnist

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State’s football team wasn’t greeted with great anticipation heading into the 1965 season.

The Spartans were coming off a 4-5 record, hadn’t won more than seven games since the 1957 National Championship season when they finished 8-1 and didn’t appear in the Associated Press Preseason Top 10.

But there was a “little buzz” within Coach Duffy Daugherty’s program, recalled Jimmy Raye, who as a sophomore would back up senior do-it-all quarterback Steve Juday.

Led in ’64 by a talented crop of second- and third-year varsity letterwinners, the Spartans upset No.