The First Indiana-Notre Dame Game

It is fair to assume that the Indiana-Notre Dame game, the first game of the new 12-team football playoff, will receive a fair bit of coverage. The same was not true of the initial meeting between the schools. Indiana came a’visiting on November 5, 1898, to play on Notre Dame's Bronson Hall Field.

Neither team was a football power then, though Notre Dame had upgraded its schedule under Frank Hering, the subject of yesterday's story.

Hering played two years at Chicago, coached Bucknell for one year...