Kentucky at Purdue

Saturday, October 12, 1895

Purdue beat Kentucky 32–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Purdue led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayKentucky0–⁠1 in 1895
0
HomePurdue4–⁠3 in 1895
32

FinalHigh 59°F, low 40°F, 0.14 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Indianapolis journal's story: THE WABASH ELEVEN NARROWLY MIssED DEFEAT BY NO. BLEsvILLE YESTERDAY. Purdue Makes the Kentucky kickers Appear ns nm Amateur Flew en- at Lafayette. pecIal to the IpdIanapoli. journal.

    The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], October 13, 1895, page 1

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    THE WABASH ELEVEN NARROWLY MIssED DEFEAT BY NO. BLEsvILLE YESTERDAY. Purdue Makes the Kentucky kickers Appear ns nm Amateur Flew en- at Lafayette. pecIal to the IpdIanapoli. journal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CRAwFORDSvILLE. Ind, Oct. 1.-THE first game of football this season was played this afternoon between the Mobiles Vile Athletic Club and Wabash College team. The Noblesville club presented a much heavier line but did not play together as well as Wabash. The game ended 6 to 4 in favor OF Wabash at 2:35 D. m. The teams lined III as foIIows.

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 67% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Purdue leads 2–⁠1 in three meetings, counting the two since this game.

Recent meetings
1915Kentucky 7, Purdue 0
1914Purdue 40, Kentucky 6
1895Purdue 32, Kentucky 0

Around this game