Michigan at Purdue

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  The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], October 14, 1929, page 1

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  |. U. Errors Give Chicago Unexpected Victory; Rose Poly Steps Out. De PAUW, FRANKLIN WIN Rockne- less RambIerS Triumph in Thrilling Finish. The worm will turn they say. It did in Indiana football Saturday. Purdue. Chicago and even old Rose Poly reyolted. Michigan, Indiana and Evansville felt the effects of the uprising. AS a result Confer ence fans today are focusing their eyes on Purdue as a team with poA tential championship qualities. Chi cago gives hopes of being at the end Of her losing streak. And it was two years. or sixteen games ago. that Rose Poly won her last game. The twenty thousand fans who saw the wonderful 30–⁠16 victory scored by the BOilernakers over Michigan, tore up Lafayette Saturday night in their wild celebration. Purdue fans were sittin’ on top of the world when WEIGH dashed thirty-fve yards for a touchdown and Purdue led 60 at the half. An intercepted pass gave the Wow crimes a chance in the third quarter and when the Purdue forward wall StifTened, Gembis place kicked a field goal. few minutes later Hay den blocked Welch’s punt and Gem bis dashed over the line and kicked goal. The Michigan forwards were hurrying Welchs punts and he kicked out of bounds on his own 28-yard line The Michigan drive came and Gembis galloped over the line with two Purdue tacklers hang ing on. Memorable Rally In one of the greatest rallies the conference has seen in the last thirty years the Phelanmen began making touchdowns. with Alex Yunevich, ex-Bicknell high school star, playing his first conference game. as one of the stars. He scored two of the four touchdowns and Caraway got two. WEIGH and Harmeson were great figures in the drive. It was a savage Purdue team not to be stopped. Rockne played some Of his STRAIT egg and his great little quarter back, Carideo, gave the eastern fans something to talk about as the NO tire Dame team defeated Navy, IA to 7, at Baltimore. Just before his team left a country club to go to the stadium Rockne, who was forced to remain at home in South Bend with an ailing leg, called the club by long distance telephone. CarideO Surprises Tom Leib, who was in charge of the team, started the shock troops and Navy found out they could pass on that bunch. They did and Cliff ton took the ball over. The Rockne regulars went in and, in short. the passing changed. Marty Brill passed to Elder to tie the score. In the second half, as Navy forwards dashed In on him, Carideo held onto the oval. They knocked him to the ground, but he was up in an instant and sailed a beautiful pass

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  Evening star, October 13, 1929, page 77

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  FIGHTING PURDUE DOWNS MICHIGAN Refuses to Be Licked, Com ing From Behind to Win by 30–⁠16 Score. BY the Associated Press. Y A PORTE, Ind, October IRE fuSing to stay licked when defeat apparently was its portion, Pur- IL due, fighting like band of wild men, jumped onto Michigan in the final period today and ground out a 30-to-l6 victory over the VOL verines in the opening game of their Big Ten season. greater number of veterans, saw its experienced line chopped to pieces by the vicious thrusts of Aleck Yunevich, sophomore fullback, Glen Harmeson and Pest” Welch, who used the ter ritory guarded by the right side OF Michigan’S line for q runway over the goal line. The vaunted Michigan for wards were outplayed by wide margin except IN the third period when the Wolverines did all their scoring. After taking a one touchdown lead in the middle of the second period, Purdue’S game collapsed in the third out Is points before the Boilermakers had figured out what hit them. Anything But Beaten. But Jimmy Phelan’s IL was anything but beaten and in the final period STlQJIleTSQ Tie WOtfcEHiCS Will q 4Uut . touchdown attack that first had the crowd wild, then left 1t almost breath less. Purdue’s backfleld. with Yunevich, Harmeson and WEIGH doing most of the work, presented varied offense that had the Michigan line puzzled almost throughout the game. The flinctioning of the Boilermaker line was better than even the most enthusiastic Purdue supporters hoped for. 1t outcharged Michigan’s line and on defense was master. Purdue made 10 first downs TO six for Michigan and completed three passes out of nine for 40 yards. Two were intercepted and four were incomplete. Michigan tried 10 passes, completed one for l8 yards, had two intercepted with seven incomplete. Michigan’s Stars Shine. Capt. Joe Truskowski and Joe Gem bis. the old reliables of the Michigan IL, played great foot ball but failed to receive the help accorded the Purdue attacking forces

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 14, 1929, page 5 (results column)

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  GRID GAMES ‘‘ ON SATURDAY The following are scores of prln- cipal games of football played last Saturday afternoon in various parts Of the country: Stanford 57; University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles 0. Oregon State II; Columbia Uni versity T. Oregon 34; Willamette 0. Southern California 43: Washing ton 0. Tulane 34; Mississippi A and M 0. Missouri 19; Iowa State O. Marquette 2; Grinnell g. Alabama 46; Chattanooga 0. Dartmouth 53; Alleghany 0. Illionis 45; Bradley 0. Ohio 21; Wesleyan T. Minnesota IS; Vanderbilt 6. Purdue 30; Michigan 16. Virginia .12; Swarthmore ‘. Harvard 35; New Hampshire 0. Fordham 27; New York Univer- sity 0. Chicago 13; Indiana T. Boston University 27; Vermont 6. Army 12; Davidson 2. Georgetown 13;- St. Louis Uni Carnegie Tech B; Reserves 6. versity O. Ohio State T; Iowa 6. Brown 13; Princeton 12. Columbia 52; Wesleyan 0. Nebraska 13; Syracuse 6. American University 8; George Washington 0. Colgate 31; Michigan State 0. Notre Dame IA; Navy T. California IS; Washington State O. Whitman II; Linfield 0.

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Michigan leads 47–⁠14 in 61 meetings, counting the 54 since this game.