Purdue at Ohio State

Saturday, October 2, 1937

Ohio State beat Purdue 13–⁠0. It was their sixth meeting; after it, Ohio State led the series 6–⁠0 as played.

AwayPurdue4–⁠3–⁠1 in 1937
0
HomeOhio State6–⁠2 in 1937
13

FinalHigh 80°F, low 52°FAttendance 49,643

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 3, 1937, page 1 (results column)

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    Nebraska’s thrilling l4–⁠9 VIC tory over Minnesota featured a sensation-studded sports world yesterday, which found Maryland the only loser among local COL leges, the Terps dropping bit terly fought 1921 game to Penn sylvania. Hal Price Headley’s Menow established world record in winning the forty-eighth run ming of the rich Belmont Futurity for 2-year-olds at Belmont Park, covering the 6h furlongs in 1:151s to clip Us seconds of the mark made by Pompoon last year. In the local foot ball realm. Catholic University defeated Loyola OF the South, 40; Georgetown swamped Shenandoah, $50, and American Uni versity trounced Bridgewater Col lege, 1870. Other leading scores: Washington, Z; Southern Cali fornia, 0. oregon, 7; Stanford. 6. Texas Christian, T. Arkansas, 7. Ohio State, 13; Purdue, 0. Princeton, %; Virginia, 0. Army, 81; Clemson, 6. Texas A. and NJ, a.. Manhattan, 7 Navy, 80; Citadel, 0. Pittsburgh, 20; West Virginia, 0. Cornell, 40; Colgate, 7. Other sports news will be found On Pages B-8 to Is.

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)

Ohio State 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Ohio State leads 43–⁠15–⁠2; as played, 44–⁠15–⁠2 in 61 meetings, counting the 55 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Ohio State 34, Purdue 10
2024Ohio State 45, Purdue 0
2023Ohio State 41, Purdue 7
2021Ohio State 59, Purdue 31
2018Purdue 49, Ohio State 20
2013Ohio State 56, Purdue 0

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