Western Reserve at Purdue

Friday, October 2, 1931

Purdue beat Western Reserve 28–⁠0. It was their second meeting; Purdue leads the series 2–⁠0.

AwayWestern Reserve0–⁠4 in 1931
0
HomePurdue9–⁠1 in 1931
28

FinalHigh 80°F, low 58°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: TWO FOR PURDUE Beats Western Reserve and Coe in Foot Ball ouble-Header.

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 4, 1931, page 1

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    TWO FOR PURDUE Beats Western Reserve and Coe in Foot Ball ouble-Header. LAFAYETTE, Ind, October 3 (P).- Purdue inaugurated its foot ball season with double header today and scored two easy victories, beating Western Reserve in the opener % to 0 and defeat ing Coe in the second encounter 10 to 0. 1t was the first time Purdue has ever played a double-header Doxey Moore. sophomore halfback, was the star of the first game He reeled off several long runs and scored three touchdoWns. Alex Yunevitch, veteran fullback, turned in many gains in the Coe contest and scored all three Purdue touch downs.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: FOOTBALL \! ]! RESULTS

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 5, 1931, page 5 (results column)

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    FOOTBALL \! ]! RESULTS The following are scores of prin- cipal football games played las Saturday: University of Washington 25 Montana 0. Idaho 0; Oregon 9. Santa Clara o; Stanford 6. St. Mary’s IA; California O. Oregon State O; Southern Cali fornia 30. Washington State 13: University of Southern California at Los An geleS 0. Notre Dame 25; Indiana o. Amherst 0; Princeton 27. Williams and Mary 6; Navy 13 College of Idaho 0; Utah 52. Montana State 6; Utah Aggies 21. Maine O. Yale l9. St. Lawrence 0; Colgate 45. Western Reserve 0; Purdue 28. Bates 0; Harvard 28. Knox 6; Army 67. Washington and Jefferson 10; Carnegie Tech T. Florida 34; North Carolina 0. Niagara 6; Cornell 37 Buffalo 0; Dartmouth 61. SWarthmore 2; Pennsylvania 32. Virginia Military I nst i t u te 0; Duke 13. Whitman 37; Albany College al Portland 0. Virginia 6; Maryland ‘. Northwestern 19; Nebraska 2.

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 94% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Purdue leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings.

Recent meetings
1931Purdue 28, Western Reserve 0
1914Purdue 26, Western Reserve 0

Around this game

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