1948 Indiana Hoosiers football team

1948 Indiana Hoosiers football
Conference Big Nine Conference
1948 record 27 (24 Big Nine)
Head coach Clyde B. Smith (1st season)
MVP George Taliaferro
Home stadium Memorial Stadium
(Capacity: 20,000)
1948 Big Nine football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 1 Michigan $ 6 0 0  9 0 0
No. 7 Northwestern 5 1 0  8 2 0
No. 16 Minnesota 5 2 0  7 2 0
Ohio State 3 3 0  6 3 0
Iowa 2 4 0  4 5 0
Purdue 2 4 0  3 6 0
Indiana 2 4 0  2 7 0
Illinois 2 5 0  3 6 0
Wisconsin 1 5 0  2 7 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1948 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1948 Big Nine Conference football season. They participated as members of the Big Nine Conference. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Clyde B. Smith, in his first year as head coach of the Hoosiers.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 25 at Wisconsin Camp Randall StadiumMadison, WI W 357   40,000
October 2 Iowa Memorial StadiumBloomington, IN W 70    
October 9 TCU* No. 17 Memorial Stadium • Bloomington, IN L 67    
October 16 Ohio State Memorial Stadium • Bloomington, IN L 017   32,000
October 23 at Pittsburgh* Pitt StadiumPittsburgh, PA L 1421    
October 30 at No. 15 Minnesota Memorial StadiumMinneapolis, MN L 730   64,926
November 6 No. 1 Notre Dame* Memorial Stadium • Bloomington, IN L 642   34,000
November 13 at No. 1 Michigan Michigan StadiumAnn Arbor, MI L 054   84,043
November 20 at Purdue Ross–Ade StadiumWest Lafayette, IN (Old Oaken Bucket) L 039    
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Eastern Time Zone.

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1949 NFL draftees

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL Club
John GoldsberryTackle440Chicago Cardinals
George TaliaferroBack13129Chicago Bears
Jerry MorricalTackle16155New York Giants
Nick SebekBack25248Los Angeles Rams

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References

  1. "1948 Football Schedule". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
  2. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/draft/1949.htm
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