Iowa at Purdue

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  Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 24, 1943, page 1

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  Purdue Bags No. 6 By Beating Iowa, 28–⁠7 back. Bill Gallagher, alternated by passes from Paul Glasener 10 big Bill Barbour, carried the ball 10 the Purdue 10. GlaSener skirted end for the touchdown. Butkovich drove for a touch down from the S-yard line in the first four minutes of the second period. He cracked the center OF the Iowa line for 80 yards later and went 30 more around left end behind fine blocking for Purdue’s second touchdown. Iowa. apparently befuddled, stood watching the next kickoff roll around until Buscemi recoVcred for Purdue on the Iowa 26. Five plays later the score was y To 7. Butkovich carried the ball on four Of the five plays and tai lied from the 3-yard line.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 24, 1943, page 1

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  Trio Of Last Quarter Scores Gives Purdue Win Over Iowa, 20–⁠7 LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. 23.-(P) - Held on even terms for three quarters Of the game, Purdue’s mighty Boilmakers suddenly touch ed off their offensive fireworks with blast that produced three touchdowns in IA minutes o the last quarter and brought them a 28–⁠7 football victory today over a stubborn University of Iowa eleven. It was Purdue’s sixth consecutive victory

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 25, 1943, page 13 (results column)

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  Unbeaten Rivals Offer Two Of Campaigns Top Attractions NEW YORK. Oct. 25.-Army VS. Penn and Notre Dame VS.. Navy, two of the most luscious tidbits of the season, top Saturdays college foot ball program. For weeks pigskin fanatics have been hoping that these four teams ranked with Purdue as the first five in the country-Would reach October 30 unbeaten and united. Now that their dreams have beer fulfilled the demand for tickets to see the games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia and at Clevelands s Municipal Stadium can be expected to increase daily. BY kickoff time it is likely that 10000 will be on hand at Cleveland and 10000 at Philadelphia virtual sellouts. Irish Likely Favorites. On the basis of comparative scores and because Angelo Bertelli, their star passer, may hang up his Notre Dame uniform for good after Saturday, the Irish probably will be favored to bowl over the MidShipmen In much the same manner they trampled Pitt Georgia Tech, Mich igan, Wisconsin and Illinois. The Penn-Army affair shapes up as q tossup. although the Cadets seem to have Franklin Field ‘jinX,’ losing there in 1940 Al and 40. In their final “tune-upS” Penn thumped Columbia, $50: Army walked over Yale. 39–⁠7; Notre Dame crushed Illinois, 47–⁠0, and Navy beat Georgia Tech, 28–⁠14 scoring two touchdowns in the last period to shatter a 14-l4 tie. These scores compare with Army S earlier $40 rout of Columbia Penn’s All victory over Yale and Notre Danes 1913 conquest of Georgia Tech. Elsewhere Saturdays chief developments included Southern Cali fornia’s 60 last-period defeat of College of the Pacific before $4,000 and Michigan’s running riot, 1876, against Minnesota. Washington trounced highly regarded March Field, 27–⁠7, while Purdue and Tony Butkovich eXploded for three touchdowns in the last quarter to beat Iowa, 28–⁠7. Colgate Pulls Surprise. In the East Colgate scored an unexpected 20–⁠7 victory over Cornell while in the South the Louisiana State Tigers. on the proWl for an Orange BoWlinvite, crushed Georgia 27–⁠6, as Steven Van Buren, rolled up 20 points on three touchdowns and two conversions. The undefeated Texas Aggies lost prestige in being held to a scoreless tie by North Texas AggieS as Tulane beat Southern Methodist, 1876 on Jim Shiver’s 57-yard run. Unbeaten Tulsa got good workout in whipping Utah, $50. while Ne braska upset favored Kansas, 7–⁠6, on Walt wilkins 65-yard punt return. Northwestern and Otto Graham blanked Ohio State, 1870. the first shutout for the Buckeyes under Coach Paul Brown, while Colorado College beat Colorado University, 1876. and Southwestern of Texas took 27–⁠6 drubbing from South western of Louisiana. Although overshadowed by the Army–Penn and Navy–Notre Dame struggles there are several other attractive games this week. They include: Colgate-Holy Cross, Min nesota Northwestern, Duke Georgia Tech, Tulsa Southwestern of Texas, T. C. U-L. S. u, Dartmouth-Yale, Purdue Wisconsin, Texas–S. M u, California;. S. c., Georgia Preflight Tulane and Indiana Ohio State.

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Purdue leads 50–⁠41–⁠3 in 94 meetings, counting the 72 since this game.