1952 Indiana Hoosiers football team

The 1952 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1952 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Bernie Crimmins, in his first year as head coach of the Hoosiers.

1952 Indiana Hoosiers football
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Record2–7 (1–5 Big Ten)
Head coach
MVPGene Gedman
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
(capacity: 20,000)
1952 Big Ten Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 11 Wisconsin + 4 1 16 3 1
No. 18 Purdue + 4 1 14 3 2
No. 17 Ohio State 5 2 06 3 0
Michigan 4 2 05 4 0
Minnesota 3 1 24 3 2
Illinois 2 5 04 5 0
Northwestern 2 5 02 6 1
Iowa 2 5 02 7 0
Indiana 1 5 02 7 0
  • + Conference co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27at No. 20 Ohio StateL 13–3370,208
October 4IowaW 20–13
October 11at MichiganL 13–2853,840
October 18Temple*
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
W 33–028,000[1]
October 25at NorthwesternL 13–2330,000
November 1at Pittsburgh*L 7–28
November 8No. 1 Michigan State*
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN (rivalry)
L 14–4122,000[2]
November 15No. 15 Wisconsin
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Bloomington, IN
L 14–3722,000
November 22at PurdueL 16–2140,000
  • *Non-conference game
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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1953 NFL draftees

PlayerPositionRoundPickNFL club
Gene GedmanBack225Detroit Lions
Pete RussoTackle20230Baltimore Colts

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References

  1. Beal, Charles A. (October 19, 1952). "Indiana Wins; Temple Routed by 33-0 Score". The Indianapolis Star. Indianapolis, Ind. sect. 4, p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  2. George S. Alderton (November 9, 1952). "State Wins Rough Tilt From Indiana: MSC Adds Hoosiers to Victim List". Lansing State Journal. p. 53 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "1952 Football Schedule". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
  4. "Reference at www.pro-football-reference.com". Archived from the original on October 30, 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2018.


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