Purdue at Fordham
Saturday, November 7, 1936 Share
No. 3 Fordham beat Purdue 15–0. It was their third meeting; after it, Purdue led the series 2–1.
FinalAttendance 40,000
In the newspapers

Imperial Valley press, November 8, 1936, page 1
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NAVY BEATS NOTRE DAME FORDHAM DEFEATS PURDUE Armchair quarterbacks alternated between smiles oil satisfaction and the aspirin bottle this afternoon ports came in from the nations gridirons. At Baltimore drop-kicked field goal from the 16vard line in fhn hird nerind hv

The Daily Alaska empire, November 9, 1936, page 5 (results column)
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EOOT BALL 4s1REsULTs The following are final scores of principal football games played last Saturday afternoon, Washington IA Stanford IA, tie. Oregon State 16; Wa h n gton State G. Idaho T; St. Mary’s 26. California 13; Southern Califor- nia T. UCLA T; Oregon 0. Rice IA Arkansas 20. Nebraska 26; Kansas 0. Auburn 13; Georgia Tech 12. Texas A. M. Is; Southern Metho- dist 6. Western State 12; Brigh a m Young 26 Kentucky T; Manhattan 13. Purdue 0: Fordham 15. Boston University ‘; Rutgers 0. Virginia 0; Harvard 65. Wisconsin IS; Northwestern 26. Temple ‘; Michigan State 2, tie Columbia 13; Dartmouth 20. North Dakota 6; DePaul 19. Notre Dame 0; Navy 3. Cornell 13; Princeton fl. Carnegie Tech IA; New York Uni versity 6. Brown 6; Yale A. Chicago 0; Ohio State A Michigan ‘; Pennsylvania 27. Muhlenberg 2; Army 54. Iowa 0; Minnesota 52 Colgate 13; Holy Cross 20. Georgetown 28; West Virginia 0. Penn State ‘; Pittsburgh 34 Georgia 26; Florida 8. Syarcuse ‘; Indiana g. Marquette T; Creighton G.
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.
On the newsreel
- EASTERN GRID TEAMS SCOREFordham’s Rams wallop Purdue and virtually assure themselves a trip to the Rose Bowl
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Fordham 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Purdue–Fordham gameFordham leads 5–2–1 in eight meetings, counting the five since this game.
| 1942 | Fordham 14, Purdue 7 | |
| 1941 | Fordham 17, Purdue 0 | |
| 1940 | Fordham 13, Purdue 7 | |
| 1938 | Fordham 6, Purdue 6 | |
| 1937 | Fordham 21, Purdue 3 | |
| 1936 | Fordham 15, Purdue 0 |
Around this game
Purdue
- Next gameat IowaNov. 14, 1936
- SeasonPurdue in 1936
- ProgramPurdue history and records
Fordham
- Next gameat GeorgiaNov. 21, 1936
- SeasonFordham in 1936
- ProgramFordham history and records

