Indiana at Purdue

Saturday, November 19, 1932. Purdue kept the Old Oaken Bucket

Purdue beat Indiana 25–⁠7. It was their 35th meeting; after it, Purdue led the series 18–⁠11–⁠4 in the games on file.

AwayIndiana3–⁠4–⁠1 in 1932
7
HomePurdue7–⁠0–⁠1 in 1932
25

FinalHigh 32°F, low 20°F, 5.98 in. on the groundAttendance 15,000

In the newspapers

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: MICHIGAN Bic TEN WINNER

    Imperial Valley press, November 21, 1932, page 7 (results column)

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    MICHIGAN Bic TEN WINNER CHICAGO, Nov. 21.-tU.PE-Michigan was hailed as football cham pion of the Big Ten today and the only undefeated, united team in the midwest. The Wolverines completed their season with a perfect record by defeating Minnesota Saturday, 80, and won the undisputed Big Ten title. 1t was Miehigan’s 18th title and fourth undisputed. Last year Michigan shared the title with Northwestern and Purdue and in 1880 tied with northwestern Purdue also completed its season without a defeat, but TT tie with Northwestern prevented the Boilermakers from sharing the conference championship 1t was Harry Newman’s place kick from the Is yard line a few minutes before the end of the first half which enabled Michigan to beat Minnesota. Two 40 yard passes from Purvis to Moss featured Purdue’s 25–⁠7 vic tory over Indiana. Wisconsin gained third place by defeating A. A. Stages last Chicago team, 1877. Mike Vuchinich’s placekick in the closing minutes of play enabled Ohio State TO beat Illinois, 80. Northwestern got its offense clicking and rolled over Iowa, AS Notre Dame beat Navy, 1910, before 10000 at Cleveland, largest crowd of the year in the midwest.

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 88% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Purdue leads 77–⁠44–⁠6; as played, 75–⁠44–⁠6 in the 125 games on file; the official count covers all 127 meetings, counting the 92 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Indiana 56, Purdue 3
2024Indiana 66, Purdue 0
2023Purdue 35, Indiana 31
2022Purdue 30, Indiana 16
2021Purdue 44, Indiana 7
2019Indiana 44, Purdue 41

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