Marquette at Purdue
Saturday, September 30, 1944 Share
Purdue beat Marquette 40–7. It was their second meeting; after it, Purdue led the series 2–0.
FinalHigh 73°F, low 53°F, 0.11 in. of rainAttendance 11,000
In the newspapers
Evening star, October 1, 1944, page 19
Read the text
Purdue Swamps Marquette After Losers Get Score LAFAYETTE, Ind, Sept. 80 (P.- Coach Cecil Isbell’s Purdue Boiler makers, spotting Marquette to a touchdown in the opening four minutes of play before gaining pos session of the ball, caught fire the rest Of the way to defeat the Hill toppers, 40 to 7, in their home foot ball opener today. The Boilermakers stormed “a yardsSfor score in their first Of fensive series and turned the contest into a rout in the second stanza.
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)
Purdue 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Marquette–Purdue gamePurdue leads 5–0 in five meetings, counting the three since this game.
| 1949 | Purdue 41, Marquette 7 | |
| 1948 | Purdue 14, Marquette 9 | |
| 1945 | Purdue 14, Marquette 13 | |
| 1944 | Purdue 40, Marquette 7 | |
| 1943 | Purdue 21, Marquette 0 |
Around this game
Marquette
- Next gameat WisconsinOct. 7, 1944
- SeasonMarquette in 1944
- ProgramMarquette history and records
Purdue
- Next gameat IllinoisOct. 7, 1944
- SeasonPurdue in 1944
- ProgramPurdue history and records