Indiana at Purdue
Saturday, November 24, 1917 Share
Indiana beat Purdue 37–0. It was their 22nd meeting; after it, Purdue led the series 11–7–2 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 34°F, low 24°F
In the newspapers

South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., November 25, 1917, page 1
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INDIANA HuMBLES PURDUE CLAN $40 Cream and Crimson, With Two Stars Out, 0utpIayS BoilermakerS. Associated Press Service: BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Nov “a Indiana handed Purdue a big sur prise here today closing the conference season with a victory over the Boilermakers 81 to O. After the upstate athletic board had sue cessfully protested Howard and Ewert, the two stars on the Grim son eleven, the Lafayette team was picked to win but Purdue could not stop the determined Indiana attack and never made a first down until near the end of the first quarter. Indiana thrilled the crowd of s. 600 persons time and again with its brilliantly executed forward passes, many of which were for gains of as much as 90 yards. Stiehm’s men also fooled Lafayette with many trick plays. Purdue at no the Indiana goal line and held In diana only in the third quarter. Lineup. Indiana (37) Purdue COZ RiSley .............. Mcdonald Left end. Hathaway (Capt) (CaptO Berns Left tackle. julius ...-......... BoSonltz Left guard. Pierce ............. Cooley Center. Minton ........ Morriss Right guard. Ingles .................. Bartlett Right tackle. CraVenS ............. Hume Quarterback. BOwser OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Markley Left halfback. Huering OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Allen Right halfback. Keever ................ Huffine Fullback. Score by periods: Indiana .......9 10 o lo-5t Purdue .-.O o o. D Referee – Schommer, Chicago. Umpire-Gardner, Cornell. Field judge-Hoffman. Chicago. Head linesman-Davis, Princeton. Scoring. Indiana touchdowns: MintOn, %: Hess. Bowser, Huering. Goals from touchdown: Hathaway, 4.

The Alaska daily empire, November 26, 1917, page 1
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FOOTBALL Indianapolis-Indiana 37; Purdue, 0. SEATTLE Northwestern 21; Michigan. 12. ST. Minnesota. 27; Illi- nois 63 CAMP LEWlS-Hundred and Six ty-First Infantry 13; Fort Flagler. 6. DETROIT-Univers of Detroit. 20; University of Buffalo, o. Army 13; Boston :. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania. 26; Carlisle o.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Purdue 56% to win. Indiana won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Indiana–Purdue gameOfficially, Purdue leads 77–44–6; as played, 75–44–6 in the 125 games on file; the official count covers all 127 meetings, counting the 105 since this game.
| 2025 | Indiana 56, Purdue 3 | |
| 2024 | Indiana 66, Purdue 0 | |
| 2023 | Purdue 35, Indiana 31 | |
| 2022 | Purdue 30, Indiana 16 | |
| 2021 | Purdue 44, Indiana 7 | |
| 2019 | Indiana 44, Purdue 41 |
Around this game
Indiana
- Next gamevs. KentuckyOct. 5, 1918
- SeasonIndiana in 1917
- ProgramIndiana history and records
Purdue
- Next gamevs. DePauwOct. 26, 1918
- SeasonPurdue in 1917
- ProgramPurdue history and records

