The 1897 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an

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team that represented

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during the

1897 college football season The 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Pennsylvania and Yale as having been selected national champions National champions are corporations which are techn ...

. In their second season under head coach Madison G. Gonterman, the Hoosiers compiled a 6–1–1 record and outscored their opponents 150 to 32.

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Indiana Hoosiers football seasons

Indiana Hoosiers football 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 (Indiana), ...

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