Ohio at Purdue

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  Evening star, September 27, 1936, page 24

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  PURDUE SWAMPS OHIO u. Shows No Sign of Recent Tragedy in 47-O Victory. LAFAYETTE, Ind, September 26 (P.-Apparently unaffected by the shower room explosion which took the lives of two of its leading players, the Purdue foot ball team today opened the season with an impressive 47-o victory over Ohio University. Led by the brilliant Cecil zsbell, who lugged the ball across the goal four times himself and passed 1t across for another, the boiler-makers scored as they pleased and had little trouble stopping Ohio on the two times the Bobcats got past midneld.

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.

Purdue leads 8–⁠0 in eight meetings, counting the six since this game.