Purdue at Chicago

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1931, page 1

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  NOT EASY FOR PURDUE TO TROUNCE CHICAGO Wins, IA to 6, Wrestling Lead From Surprising Maroon Eleven in Second Half. CHICAGO, October 31.-”Old Man Stages crippled and struggling Ma rooms threw a big scare into the stronger and superior Purdue machine today, but in the end were ground under a 14-to-6 defeat. The scare came in the first half, which ended with the Maroons leading 6 to 0. But Purdue came pounding back to register two touchdowns in the third and Chicago went tunbling to defeat for the third time in Big Ten” COM petition this season. The result was surprise to the crowd of 5000, smallest attendance at major game at Stagg Field since the early days, as Purdue had been counted upon to run all over Chicago.

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Chicago leads 27–⁠14–⁠1 in 42 meetings, counting the five since this game.