The 1917 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the

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. In their second season under head coach

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, the Hoosiers compiled a 5–2 record and finished in seventh place in the Big Ten Conference. They won games against (50–0), (51–0), Saint Louis (40–0), (35–0), and

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(37–0), and lost to Minnesota (33–9), and Ohio State (26–3).

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