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1912 Indiana Hoosiers football team

American college football team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ22022957 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1912 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1912 college football season. In their eighth season under head coach James M. Sheldon, the Hoosiers compiled a 2–5 record, finished in last place in the Western Conference, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 100 to 80.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1912 Indiana Hoosiers football team” is american college football team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Indiana, Hoosiers and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Indiana, Hoosiers and football is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1912 Indiana Hoosiers football team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.