They played a version of the game that would be unrecognizable compared to modern football, but the 1898 Hoosiers have a place in Indiana history.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Part of the fun of the Indiana-Notre Dame College Football Playoff game is how infrequent meetings have been between two teams located in the same state.
That was the case for most of the matchups in the first quarter of the 20th Century. Many of the games were played at Washington Park in Indianapolis – Indiana frequently played home games in Indianapolis into the 1920s. This was also before Indiana joined the Big Ten. The Hoosiers would join what was then the Western Conference a year later. It was the first year that the interlocking I-U logo appeared in the Arbutus yearbook.
Given how physical the game was, and how small rosters were at the time, injuries were a major problem. The Hoosiers, coached by James Horne, decided to make the most of their trip north from Bloomington. Indiana would play at Notre Dame on a Saturday, and then the Hoosiers would play at DePauw two days later on Monday.
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