1956 Ball State Cardinals football | |
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Conference | Indiana Collegiate Conference |
Record | 4–4 (2–4 ICC) |
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Home stadium | Ball State Field |
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Saint Joseph's (IN) $^ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Butler | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Valparaiso | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Evansville | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ball State | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DePauw | 1 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indiana State | 0 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1956 Ball State Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented Ball State Teachers College (later renamed Ball State University) in the Indiana Collegiate Conference (ICC) during the 1956 NCAA College Division football season. In its first season under head coach Jim Freeman, the team compiled a 4–4 record (2–4 against ICC opponents) and finished in fifth place out of seven teams in the ICC. [1]
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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September 15 | Hanover * |
| W 12–7 | ||||
September 22 | at Indiana (PA) * | Indiana, PA | W 26–0 | ||||
October 6 | DePauw |
| W 19–6 | ||||
October 13 | Butler |
| L 12–28 | ||||
October 20 | at Indiana State | W 28–14 | |||||
October 27 | at Valparaiso | Valparaiso, IN | L 12–49 | ||||
November 3 | Saint Joseph's (IN) |
| L 0–66 | [2] | |||
November 10 | at Evansville | Evansville, IN | L 7–33 | ||||
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The Ball State Cardinals football team is a college football program representing Ball State University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football. Mike Neu is the head coach. Ball State plays its home games on Scheumann Stadium on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. The Cardinals compete in the Mid-American Conference as a member of the West Division.
The Indiana Collegiate Conference (ICC) was a college athletic conference in the United States from 1951 to 1978. It consisted solely of schools in Indiana.
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