Purdue at Illinois

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 11, 1944, page 1

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  Buckeye-Badge Tilt Is Tops in Testing Big Ten Battles CHICAGO, Oct. 11.-There won’t be too much left to the imagination when the fireworks. die down on Western Conference gridirons this week end. At least one front runner will be eliminated and another, co-champion Purdue, will have its potentialities plumbed to the depths In a nonleague duel with Iowa Preflight. Last weeks firing answered few questions-notably at Champaign, where Purdue. co-champion With Michigan last year, opened its title defense with 35–⁠19 win over ILL nois. This week, Wisconsin and Ohio State, both unbeaten, get together. Northwestern and Michigan meet at Ann Arbor, and Iowa and Illinois clash at Champaign. All four have been beaten once. Six of the nine teams now have played one conference game, with Illinois, Michigan and Indiana, which was idle last Saturday. haying played two each-each winning one and losing one. OF last weeks games, Purdue’s victory seemed significant, coming a week after Illinois held the pow erful Great Lakes team to 1926 tie. Great Lakes previously had beaten Purdue. Two other nonconference games are scheduled this week, Missouri at

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Officially, Purdue leads 49–⁠47–⁠6; as played, 48–⁠47–⁠6 in the 101 games on file; the official count covers all 102 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.