Purdue at Wisconsin

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 31, 1943, page 1

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  Mighty Purdue Gridders Swamp Wisconsin, $40 MADISON, Wis, Oct. 3o.-tR- Purdue’s accomplished football troupe, spotlighting Touchdown Tony Butkovich in his farewell performance, routed a powerless Wisconsin eleven here today 80 to 0 before 10000 fans. Relying largely on their ground game, the Purdue model ‘T’‘ roll ed over the goal line once each in the first, second and third quartrs and twice in the final. The first period touchdown followed tumble by Wisconsin’s Ray Dooney on the Badger 80, the Boil ermarkers sending Butkovich around end on the next play for six points. &

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.

Wisconsin leads 54–⁠29–⁠8 in 91 meetings, counting the 63 since this game.