Indiana Hoosiers football
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| First season | 1887 | ||
| Head coach | Tom Allen | ||
| Stadium | Memorial Stadium | ||
| Year built | 1960 | ||
| Seating capacity | 52,929 | ||
| Field surface | FieldTurf | ||
| Location | Bloomington, Indiana | ||
| Conference | Big Ten | ||
| Division | East | ||
| All-time record | 460–631–45 (.425) | ||
| Bowl record | 3–8 (.273) | ||
| Conference titles | 2 (1945, 1967) | ||
| Consensus All-Americans | 7 | ||
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| Colors | Crimson and Cream |
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| Fight song | "Indiana, Our Indiana" | ||
| Marching band | Marching Hundred | ||
| Rivals |
Purdue Boilermakers Illinois Fighting Illini Michigan State Spartans Kentucky Wildcats |
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| Website | IUHoosiers.com | ||
The Indiana Hoosiers football program represents Indiana University Bloomington in NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football and in the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers have played their home games at Memorial Stadium since 1960.
The team has won the Big Ten Championship twice, once in 1945 and again in 1967. The Hoosiers have appeared in nine bowl games, including the 1968 Rose Bowl. Numerous Indiana players have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, including Zora Clevinger, Bill Ingram, Pete Pihos, George Taliaferro, John Tavener, and Anthony Thompson, who was also National Player of the Year in 1989.
The Hoosiers are currently coached by Tom Allen.
In the fall of 1884 the Indiana student newspaper made its first reference to football by reporting that a team was being organized. The following year, in 1885, a Yale graduate, professor Arthur B. Woodford, came to Indiana to teach political and social science and during the next year he introduced football to the school. Woodford coached the Hoosiers from 1887 to 1888. In the only documented game of the 1889 season, Indiana lost to Wabash College, 40-2. Evan Wollen led the Hoosiers to an 0-1 record.
By 1891 Billy Herod was head coach. He had never played football but had seen it played in the East. The Hoosiers continued to struggle to find wins, even forfeiting a game to in-state rival Purdue in the 1894 season. The first winning season came in 1895 under coach Dana Osgood, who led the team to a 4–3–1 record. This was followed by two winning seasons in 1896 and 1897 under coach Madison G. Gonterman, who was hired away from Harvard.
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