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In the fall of 1884 the Indiana student newspaper made its first reference to football by reporting that a team was being organized. [6] 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. [6]
Indiana's passion for basketball was observed and written about by basketball's inventor, James Naismith. In 1925, Naismith visited an Indiana basketball state finals game along with 15,000 screaming fans. He later wrote that while it was invented in Massachusetts, "basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the ...
Basketball, ultimately the most popular team sport in Indiana, did not yet exist when the IIAA was founded. It was invented by James Naismith at the YMCA Training School (today Springfield College) in the winter of 1891–92, but by 1899-90 it had joined football, baseball, and track as a sport sponsored by the IIAA. [25]
^A. Indiana and Purdue first met on March 2, 1901 in Bloomington, with a 20-15 Purdue win. Indiana originally planned to play a second game against Purdue in West Lafayette, but according to the Arbutus (the Indiana school yearbook) those games were "declared off, and the season ended at Indiana."
The Indiana Hoosiers, undefeated through 10 games, are having the best season in program history thanks to a new coach and aggressive transfer strategy. How a school known for basketball built the ...
University of Evansville: Evansville: Missouri Valley: Indiana Hoosiers: Indiana University Bloomington: Bloomington: Big Ten: FBS: Indiana State Sycamores: Indiana State University: Terre Haute: Missouri Valley: FCS [b] IU Indy Jaguars [c] Indiana University Indianapolis: Indianapolis: Horizon: Notre Dame Fighting Irish: University of Notre ...
Indiana football had a magical 2024 season under first-year coach Curt Cignetti, and in return has a shot at a national championship.. No. 9 Indiana (11-1, 8-1 Big Ten) travels to No. 3 Notre Dame ...
This is a list of seasons completed by the Indiana Hoosiers football program since the team's conception in 1885, even though there were no documented games until the 1887 season. The list documents season-by-season records, and conference records from 1900 to the present.