Illinois at Purdue

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  Evening star, October 26, 1947, page 38

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  Purdue Wins Over Illinois, 14–⁠7 Ending Unbeoten String at 10 Demoss’ Passes Set Up Both Touchdowns Before Homecoming Crowd Of AZ 900 the first quarter and it had others as the afternoon wore on. After the first punt exchange of the game and 15-yard Illinois penalty for holding, Dwight Eddleman had to kick from his own s. The ball hit near midfield, but bounced straight back toward the Illini goal line and stopped on the 81. Purdue went right to work. Demoss threw a 15-yard pass to Adams. Harry Szulborki, a 169- FOUNDER, wriggled through the GEN. ter Of the line for 4 yards and did it again for g. That left 8 yards to go and Jack Milito plunged over. Tackle Art Haverstock place-kicked the extra point, first Of two that gave him 16 out of II for the season. Illinois tied it up in the last min ute of the second quarter with drive that started from its own 39. The Illini fooled Purdue for one of the few times of the afternoon on the moldy Statue of Liberty play, Bernie Kruger posing to pass and then handing the ball to Ed dleman for 14-yard gain. A Moss pass to End Joe Buscemi added 13 more and then Moss threw “a yard touchdown pass to Chick Mag gioli of Mishawaka, Ind. Purdue stopped another Illinois drive on its 81 early in the third period and Ron Maechtle tried field goal, the ball swerving wide to the right. Then Demoss and Purdue went to work. After Eddleman punted out of bounds on the Illinois “a, Demoss threw the two passes that won the game.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 26, 1947, page 1

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  ILLINOIS STUNNED BY PURDUE, 14–⁠7 LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. Is CP’-An alert Purdue team never made a mistake today and knocked down an Illinois foot ball machine that had gone ten games without defeat, IA to :, before an alumni-packed crowd of $4,000 homecoming fans. Illinois, tied by Army but unbeaten since mid-season of 1916, made II first downs to Purdue’s six, but the unflustered winners made the Illini do most of their running on the wrong side OF the center stripe. Purdue’s fl e-man backfield on defense was calculated to stop Illinois top passer, Perry Moss, and while it didn’t keep him from passing for the one Illini touchdown, it knocked down most of his other losses that might have mattered. Moss reached receivers with IL OF rs passes, but the net gain was only 1873 yards, while Bob Demoss of Purdue completed four of five for So yards and set up both of his teams touch downs. Apart from Demoss’ timely passes, more effective because he called ground plays most of the afternoon, Purdue’s activities were pretty much starless. Illinois --- 7 0 o. 7 Purdue -7 7 Ola Illinois scoring: Touchdown, MagGioli (for Dufelmeierl. Point after touchdown, Maechtle (placement). Purdue scoring: Touchdowns, Milito, Heck. Points after touch down, Haverstock (for Glib; ny 2 (placements).

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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 71 since this game.