Chicago at Purdue

Saturday, November 2, 1918

Purdue beat Chicago 7–⁠3. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Chicago led the series 19–⁠4–⁠1.

AwayChicago4–⁠6–⁠1 in 1918
3
HomePurdue3–⁠3 in 1918
7

FinalHigh 55°F, low 29°F

In the newspapers

  • The South Bend news-times's story: PURDUE f NALLY DEFEATS CHICAGO After q Years of Low End of Score, HooSierS Get MafOOnS' Goat.

    South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., November 3, 1918, page 1

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    PURDUE f NALLY DEFEATS CHICAGO After q Years of Low End of Score, HooSierS Get MafOOnS’ Goat. sacNNrAhANn AtNr EtENANE. LAFAYETTE. Ind, Nov. Aft er “A years of successive defeats the Purdue football team came back this afternoon on Stuart field, defeating the University OF Chicago squad by a score OF 10 3. Stagg the Chicago mentor, who formed plays for years that defeated the Boilermake rs, used everything at his command TO put winning score across but the pIucky Purdue men foiled him In the winning score Maskley caught a long forward pass and then made spectacular run of twenty yards Tackled thrice nc left his headsear in the HANDS OF the last man as a souvenir. Chicago made its only points in the first period on a break Of luck. Ewbank punted and Waters Of Purdue fumbled the bali, and a Wis liting player recovered il on the Purdue % lire. Chicago failed to gain and Stegeman drop kicked over the Purdue goal. EuFuuc -NclcDratcS At the end Of the game, soldiers IN training at Camp Purdue rushed II to the field and carried off the victorious players A big parade tonight celebrated the victory Lineup and summary: Purdue Position Chicago Quaist ................. Bradley left pnd Blrk ................. Stegman left tackle Philips ............... Casper left guarc Mitchell ............. Reber center Hargrave .......... McQuaile right guard bartlett ............... McGulre right tackle BendlXen ................ Halliday right end Murphy ............... Mill quarterback / Waters .............. Ewbanks left halfback ldiN ............ Elton right halfback Markley .-...........-... Hermes fullback Score of periods: / Purdue ............. 0; o; chicago ........... .; .; u Referee, Magidson; Umpire, w. c. knight; Head linesman, White !; / (COrnelD. Time of periods Is min utes; Purdue scoring touchdown, Markley; Goal from touchdown, Bartlett; Chicago field goal, Siege man.

  • The Evening star's story: FOR CHICAGO Purdue's Eleven Wins From Rivals for First Time in Twenty -Four Years.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1918, page 1

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    FOR CHICAGO Purdue’s Eleven Wins From Rivals for First Time in Twenty -Four Years. LAFAYETTE, Ind, November e After twenty-four years of successive defeats, the Purdue foot ball team came back this afternoon on Stuart field, defeating the University of Chi cago squad by a score of to 3. Stage. the Chicago mentor. who formed plays for years that defeated the Boilermakers. used everything at his command to put a winning score across but the plucky Purdue men foiled him. In the winning score Markley caught a long forward pass and then made a spectacular run OF twenty yards. Tackled thrice he lett his headgear in the hands of the last man as a souvenir Chicago made it’s only points in the first period on a break of luck. EWbank punted. and Waters OF Purdue fumbled the ball, and visiting player recovered it on the Purdue 25-yard line. Chicago failed to gain and Stegman drop kicked over the Purdue goal At the end Of the game. soldiers IN training at Camp Purdue rushed on to the field and carried off the victorious players. A big parade tonight celebrated the victory.

  • The The sun's story: PURDUE DEFEATS CHICAGO ELEVEN Victory Comes After ~ Years of Failure.

    The sun, New York [N.Y.], November 3, 1918, page 17

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    PURDUE DEFEATS CHICAGO ELEVEN Victory Comes After ~ Years of Failure. LAFAYETTE, Ind. Nov. after TWEEN ty-four years of successive defeats the purdue football team came back this afternoon and defeated the University Of Chicago squad by a score of ! to 8. Stage, the Chicago mentor who formed plays for years that defeated the boiler makers. used everything at his command 10 put a winning score across, but the plucky Purdue men folled him. III the winning score Marley caught long forward pass and then made spectacular run OF 20 ? is. Tackled thrice, he left his headgear In the bands OF the last yan as a souvenir. Chicago made its only points in the first period on a break OF luck. Ewbank punted and Wstr”s 90 Purdue rumly ii the ball. aud a yis’‘‘r f; player recovered n on the Purdue . ard line. Chicago failed to gain and Stegman dropllicked over the Purdue goa. At the end OF the game soldiers In training at Camp Purdue rushed onto the Held and carried off the victorious players. 4 big parade tonight celegrated 6lc victory

  • The The Lake County times's story: PIER AND PURDUE FOOTBALL TEAMS SURPRISE FANS Rout of Purple and Maroons First Loss to Boilermak- ers in "a Years.

    The Lake County times, Hammond, Ind., November 4, 1918, page 1

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    PIER AND PURDUE FOOTBALL TEAMS SURPRISE FANS Rout of Purple and Maroons First Loss to Boilermak- ers in “a Years. The Pier naval school and Purdue football teams jolted the shock bat talions Of fans loose from their shock absorbers Saturday by the respective compilations of IS to and I to 3 scores against Northwestern and the Maroons. For the most part the other games ended Just about as the dope sters figured they would. although the Illini were hardly picked to accumulate as many as nineteen points against the Hawkeyes. on the face of its showing against the sailors Northwestern might be peg ged as slipping. but such IS not the case. as future opponents Of the Evanstonians will discover. The Purple contingent seemingly became cocky over its scoreless draw with Great Lakes the previous week and figured the Pier as nothing more than good workout But the gobs thus far have put teams Of increasing power in the field. and their Saturday cast was far stronger than the elevens that thumped Maroons and Illini

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)

Chicago 55% to win. Purdue won as Elo’s underdog.

Chicago leads 27–⁠14–⁠1 in 42 meetings, counting the 18 since this game.

Recent meetings
1936Purdue 35, Chicago 7
1935Purdue 19, Chicago 0
1934Purdue 26, Chicago 20
1933Purdue 14, Chicago 0
1932Purdue 37, Chicago 0
1931Purdue 14, Chicago 6

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