Purdue at Wisconsin

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 23, 1927, page 75

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  WISCONSIN VICTOR OVER PURDUE, 1876 BY the Associated Press. MADISON. Wis, October GA sturdy Purdue team fell before the more polished offense of Wisconsin today, II to 6. In the second and third periods Wisconsin slashed off the BOilermaker tackles, passing deep into their opponents’ territory and counted two touchdowns. A N. THE lone Purdue touchdown, coming In the final minutes of play, added a closing thrill to a hard struggle when Miller dashed 10 yards through the entire Badger team after receiving a short pass from Welch. The game was played under condi. tions more favorable for base ball than foot ball. and more than $1,000 spectators sweltercd. The victory marked the first win for Wisconsin in two conference starts. For Purdue 1t was the second defeat. Purdue placed its offensive power in Ralph Welch, who two weeks ago by brilliant playing helped down Harvard. Rebholiz plunged across for WiseOn. sins first touchdown. Crofoot failed to kick goal. Crofoot counted the second on q, beautiful run around left end from the 20.yard line.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 24, 1927, page 5 (results column)

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  WASHINGTON t WINS 14 10 [ Football Scores of Games Last Saturday Many ourprlses Last Saturday afternoon, at Sc. attle, the University of Washing ton football team defeated Wash. insten State by score Of II to C. The last time lhe two teams met the State College won. 3 to 6. Following are the results of many games played in various parts or the country Saturday af- ternaon and some of the wins were surprises: Idaho 42 Montana C. Yale 10; Amy 6. Cornell 10; Princeton a1 Dartmouth 90, Harvard 6. Chicago 15; Pennsylvania ‘. Minnesota 3S; Iowa 0. Columbia ID; Williams O. Michigan 2l. Ohio State 0. Illinois z; Northwestern 6. Wisconsin 12; Purdue 6. Stanford 20, Oregon Aggies 6. Notre Dame 19, Indiana 6. California 21; Olympic Club 0 So. California 51; California sn- stitute of Technology G St. Marys 3s; Nevada 0.

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.

Wisconsin leads 54–⁠29–⁠8 in 91 meetings, counting the 79 since this game.