Purdue at Pittsburgh

Saturday, October 4, 1941

Purdue beat Pittsburgh 6–⁠0. It was their first meeting; after it, Purdue led the series 1–⁠0.

AwayPurdue2–⁠5–⁠1 in 1941
6
HomePittsburgh3–⁠6 in 1941
0

FinalHigh 81°F, low 68°F, 0.01 in. of rainAttendance 24,000

In the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story: March Length OF Field and Collapse Purdue Scores Once in Second Period; Youngster Shines

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 5, 1941, page 1

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    March Length OF Field and Collapse Purdue Scores Once in Second Period; Youngster Shines PITTSBURGH, Oct A Pitts burghS mighty Panthers marched the length of the field at the start Of todays football game against the Purdue Boilermakers. They reached the l-yard line only TO lose the ball on downs. Apparently that was all the mighty Painters had. After their opening drive. their -ofiense- col lapSed and Purdue finished on the top side. 6 TO 0. Purdue lost 10 Vanderbilt last Saturday. so todays victory was most welcome. The BOiiermakerS had all the better of the going except for the opening march Of the Pitt bait tiers.

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: Football Results

    Imperial Valley press, California, October 5, 1941, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Results Pittsburgh 0; Purdue 6. Colgate 7: Penn State 0. Michigan 6; Iowa 0. Northwestern 81, Kansas State 3 Penn 19. Harvard 0. Yale p; Virginia 10. Army 10; The Citadel 6 Duke 10; Tennessee 0. Cornell Is; Syracuse 0. Fordham 16; S.M.U. 10, Stanford FroSh 20; Long Beach &c Rochester l3; Cberlin 6. Coast Guard Academy 48; Wor cCStcr 0. Michigan g. Iowa 0. EastOn Lafayette 0 N. Y u. g. Ohio u. 0 Western Reserve :. Vermont 7; Trinity 8. Mass State 8; Connecticut 6 BoWdoin 13; Wesleyan 7. Shippensburg, Sc; KutztoWn 0. Columbia l3; Brown g. Notre Dame 10; Indiana 6, Navy 40 West Virginia 0. Union 0; Hobert 49, Holy Cross l3; Providence 0. Bates Z; New Hampshire 6. Colby 7; Norwich 81. Clarkson 20 ithaca o.

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)

Pittsburgh 67% to win. Purdue pulled the upset.

Purdue leads 4–⁠3 in seven meetings, counting the six since this game.

Recent meetings
1986Pittsburgh 41, Purdue 26
1985Pittsburgh 31, Purdue 30
1948Pittsburgh 20, Purdue 13
1947Purdue 28, Pittsburgh 0
1946Purdue 10, Pittsburgh 8
1945Purdue 28, Pittsburgh 0

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