Purdue at Chicago

Saturday, October 27, 1928

Purdue beat Chicago 40–⁠0. It was their 34th meeting; after it, Chicago led the series 27–⁠6–⁠1.

AwayPurdue5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1928
40
HomeChicago2–⁠7 in 1928
0

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Indianapolis times's story

    The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], October 29, 1928, page 1

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    MINNESOTA was the victim Of Iva the lone upset in the Big Ten Saturday, though Illinois and Wis consin barely squeezed through to victory. The heralded battle Of full backs” at Iowa City was not that at all. as other performers took the spotlight. BUT HooRAY FOR IOWA ANYWAY THE HAWKEYES REFUSED TO BE AWER gY AT THE sf G0RHER TvR6 B0gE sTEf il HAVE HAWK, DRAM PAP;E. TOOK THE LEATHER EGG PLANT AND LUGGED IT P0WN THE 4o E1E+R STT 70 TIE fA RE SCORE AFTER HOVDE HAD DASHED NINETY ONE YARDS TO SCORE FOR MINNESOTA. Minnesota missed the extra point after touchdown, but an other Iowa sub, Irving Nelson, was called on after Pape had scored and Nelson achieved fame by making the point that ruined the Gophers. A ND now only three Big Ten IN teams sport a clean slate, undefeated and united, Illinois, Iowa and Ohio State. n PURDUE RAN WILD AND HUMBLED CHICAGO. 40 TO 0. A LARGER SCORE THE MAROONS ON OCT. 20. AMI PREVIOUS TO THAT MINNESOTA DOWNED PURDUE, is TO 0. ALL OF WHICH INDICATES FOOTBALL TEAMS ARE DIFFERENT ON DIFFERENT SAT URCAYS. Eby, great Ohio State half back demonstrated how an eel operates

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 29, 1928, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are results Of the principal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Oregon State 29; Washington Idaho 20; California at Los An geles 6. Washington State 51; College of Idaho 0. Gonzaga 6; Whitman O. Stanford 47; Fresno State 0. Montana State 0; Montana Col lege 0. Olympic Club 12; California 0. Southern California 19; oeci- dental 0. Army IS; Yale 6. Illinois 6; Northwestern 0. Iowa [: Minnesota 0. Ohio State 13; Indiana 0. Nebraska 24; Missouri 0. Princeton 3; Cornell 0. Navy 6; Pennsylvania 0. Purdue 40: Chicago 0. Notre Dame 32: Drake O. Kentucky 8; Centre 0. Alabama 42; Suwannee 12. Utah 24; Colorado 6. Haskell IA; Regis 9. South Dakota State 13; South Dakota 0. Texas 13; Rice 6. Ohio 39; Ohio Northern 0. Pittsburgh 0; Carnegie Tech 6. Vanderbilt 34; Virginia 0. Georgia 20; Tulane IA Kansas Aggies 21; Oklahoma B New York University 1T; Colgate 6. Tennessee 26; Washington anf Lee

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. Elo’s favorite won.

Chicago leads 27–⁠14–⁠1 in 42 meetings, counting the eight 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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