1898 Indiana Hoosiers football team

The 1898 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1898 college football season. In their first season under head coach James H. Horne, the Hoosiers compiled a 4–1–2 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 90 to 30.^[1]

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
	Rose Polytechnic	Jordan Field Bloomington, IN	W 16–0
	Emmerich Manual High School	Jordan Field Bloomington, IN	W 20–0
October 29	Cincinnati	Jordan Field Bloomington, IN	T 0–0	^[2]
November 5	at Notre Dame	Brownson Hall field Notre Dame, IN	W 11–5
November 7	at DePauw	Greencastle, IN	W 32–0
November 12	at Purdue	Stuart Field West Lafayette, IN (rivalry)	L 0–14	^[3]
November 24	at Cincinnati	Union Ball Park Cincinnati, OH	T 11–11

^ "The "I" Men of Indiana – A Review of Our Athletic History". Indiana University Alumni Quarterly. October 1914. p. 416.
^ "Neither Side Able To Score". The Inter Ocean. Chicago, Illinois. October 30, 1898. p. 10. Retrieved April 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Purdue Wins from Indiana". Chicago Tribune. November 13, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.

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1898 Midwestern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Washington University		–		6	–	0	–	0
Detroit College		–		5	–	0	–	0
Carthage		–		3	–	0	–	0
Iowa State Normal		–		4	–	0	–	1
Washburn		–		4	–	0	–	1
Kansas		–		7	–	1	–	0
Cincinnati		–		5	–	1	–	3
Indiana		–		4	–	1	–	2
Nebraska		–		8	–	3	–	0
Drake		–		4	–	2	–	0
Lake Forest		–		2	–	1	–	0
Notre Dame		–		4	–	2	–	0
Butler		–		2	–	1	–	1
Heidelberg		–		4	–	3	–	0
Michigan Agricultural		–		4	–	3	–	0
Iowa State		–		3	–	2	–	0
Kansas State		–		1	–	1	–	2
Miami (OH)		–		1	–	1	–	0
DePauw		–		3	–	4	–	2
Iowa		–		3	–	4	–	2
Ohio		–		1	–	2	–	1
Ohio State		–		3	–	5	–	0
Baldwin–Wallace		–		2	–	4	–	0
Central Michigan		–		1	–	2	–	0
Indiana State		–		1	–	2	–	0
North Dakota Agricultural		–		1	–	2	–	0
Wabash		–		2	–	5	–	1
Ohio Wesleyan		–		2	–	5	–	0
Haskell		–		2	–	7	–	0
Missouri		–		1	–	4	–	1
Wittenberg		–		1	–	5	–	1
Fairmount		–		0	–	1	–	0