DePauw at Purdue
Saturday, October 2, 1920 Share
Purdue beat DePauw 10–0. It was their 19th meeting; after it, Purdue led the series 18–1.
FinalHigh 67°F, low 34°F
In the newspapers

South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., October 3, 1920, page 1
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BOILERMAKERS WIN FROM DEPAUW 100 Purdue Makes Only Mediocre Showing in First Came of Season. LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct D. Showing flashes of brilliancy and at other times playing mediocre foot ball. Purdue university defeated De Paw university here this afternoon, 10 10 a. De PAW held the Boiler makers scoreless during the first half but in the third period. Meeker who replaced Douglas Fields at fullback. pIOughed through the line for a touchdown A place kick from the 90 yard line i’m the final period by Hanna accounted for Purduc’s other points. Summary and line-uI.

Pine Bluff daily graphic, Arkansas, October 3, 1920, page 7 (results column)
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of Maine Al to 0 today tearing, through for five touchdowns and ad- ding six more points by two field goals, one of them a cannon ball shot from the 35 yard line by Hamilton. West Point, N. r., Oct. 2.-Thc army walked away with both ends of double header football contest to- day, defeating Union college of Sche- nectady 36 to 0, and Marshall college of Huntington, w. Va, 3S to 0. The cadets were never pressed. At Little Rock-Camp Pike 13, Southwestern Teachers college of Springfield, Mo-, 0. Bloomington, Ind, Oct. 2-Iowa de- feated Indiana in the first western conference game of the season here today, IA to z. Both teams used the forward pass in making their scores, Iowa in the second period and India ma in the final period. Devine made the counters for Iowa and Syzel scored Indiana’s touch down. New Haven, Conn.,, Oct 2.-Yale won an easy victory in it’s opening game today, defeating Carnegie Tech. A to o. The heavy Blue elev- en showed a strong defense against the Pennsylvanians who did not threaten the Yale goal line at any stage. Lafayette, Ind, Oct. 2.-Showing flashes of brilliancy intermittedly with mediocre football, Purdue uni versity defeated Depauw university here 10 to 0. Princeton, N. J., Oct. 2.-The Princeton football team opened it’s season here today win a victory over the Swarthmore college eleven, 17 to 6. At Columbia, Mo-: Missouri Al, Missouri Wesleyan O. At Richmond, Ind: Earlham 2s, Hanover 8. At Indianapolis: Wittenberg 20, Butler O.. At Kalamazoo: Western State Nor maj 54, Olivet College 7. At Detroit: University of Detroit |34, Duquesne 0. At East Lansing: M. A. c. 16, AL bian College o. At Lincoln, Neb.: Nebraska IA, Washburn 0. At Newark: Delaware il, Ursinus, 0 At Washington, D. C.: Georgetown 79, St. Johns 0. At Morgantown, w. Va: West Vir- ginia 2, Lehigh 2. At Carlisle, Pa.: Albright 6, Dick inson, 0. At Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 3S St. Mary’s IA. At Cincinnati: enyy’sn 0, Universl- ty of Cincinnati 45. At St. Louis: St. Louis Universl ty 12, Rose Poly O. At Fargo: North Dakota Agricul tural College ‘, Jamestown college 7 At Butte: Butte School of Mines l27, Mount St. Charles 6. At Milwaukee: Marquette 3l, Car roll o. At Grinnell: Grinnell AZ, Penn O At Des Moines: Drake 6, Simpson At Ames: Coe 6, Ames 0. At Mt. Vernon: Cornell College 34 Iowa State Teachers ‘. At Beaver Falls, Pa.: Geneva { Pittsburgh AT. At State Colleke, Pa.: Penn Stat l13, Gettysburg 0. l At Lexington: Washington an Lee 6, Davidson 0. At Charlottesville, Va: Virginl 65, Randolph Macon 0. l At New Orleans: Tulane 79, South western 0. At Clemson College: Clemson 2f Newberry College 6. ! At Tuscaloosa, Ala: University Q Alabama 49, Marion, 0. ‘ At Columbia, s. C.: 10, Wooford At Lexington: VIM. 1. 136, HamI den Sidney 0. At Knoxville: University of Tennes see AS, Maryville College 0. At Atlanta: Georgia Tech. D T ‘iOglethorpe University 0.

The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram, Richmond, Ind., October 4, 1920, page 1 (results column)
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Football Results BIG TEN Iowa, IA; Indiana, Z. INDIANA Notre Dame, 80: Kalamazoo, 0. Wittenberg, 20; Butler, 0. Purdue, 10: DePauw, 0. Earlham, 20; Hanover, 3. Wabash, 20; Pennsylvania, 0, Franklin, SO; Wilmington, O. WEST Ohio State, SIS; Wesleyan, 0. Northwestern, IA; Knox, 0. Minnesota, Al; North Dakota, 3. Dennison, I; Case, 0. Oberlin. 81; Heidelberg, 0. Drake, Sc; Simpson, 0. University of Cincinnati, As; Ken yon, 0. Miami, 81; ST. Xavier, 0. Muskingum, “a; Otterbein, 0. EAST Brown, 10; Amherst, 0. Army, So: Union, 0, Army, So; Marshall College, 0. North Carolina. IA; Navy, Z. Princeton, II; Swarthmore. 6. Yale, “A; Carnegie Tech, 0. Harvard, Al; Maine, 0. Lafayette, 20; Muhlenburg, 0. Columbia, 81; Trinity, 0. Colgate, 0; SusQuehanna, 0. The passenger pigeon, formerly a bllndant is now very rare.
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 85% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every DePauw–Purdue gamePurdue leads 23–1 in 24 meetings, counting the five since this game.
| 1929 | Purdue 26, DePauw 7 | |
| 1928 | Purdue 31, DePauw 0 | |
| 1927 | Purdue 15, DePauw 0 | |
| 1925 | Purdue 39, DePauw 0 | |
| 1924 | Purdue 36, DePauw 0 | |
| 1920 | Purdue 10, DePauw 0 |
Around this game
DePauw
- Next gamevs. CentreNov. 6, 1920
- SeasonDePauw in 1920
- ProgramDePauw history and records
Purdue
- Next gameat ChicagoOct. 9, 1920
- SeasonPurdue in 1920
- ProgramPurdue history and records
