Purdue at Illinois

Saturday, October 23, 1948. Illinois took the Purdue Cannon from Purdue

Illinois beat Purdue 10–⁠6. It was their 32nd meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 17–⁠10–⁠4 in the games on file.

AwayPurdue3–⁠6 in 1948
6
HomeIllinois3–⁠6 in 1948
10

FinalHigh 60°F, low 42°FAttendance 56,451

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: &1AsAikg8 5 ga Agiklg8@6 FOOTBALL { SCORES

    The Daily Alaska empire, October 25, 1948, page 3 (results column)

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    &1AsAikg8 5 ga Agiklg8@6 FOOTBALL { SCORES Here are the final football scores of games played over the weekend: Wash ngton 0; California 2l. Oregon State 28; UCLA O. Idaho 39 Montana O. Southern California T; Stanford 6. Washington State T: Oregon 33. East Texas State IS; West Texas :. Utah 20; Brigham Young T. St. Marys 33; Denver g. Boston College 13; Mississippi 32. Syracuse O; Northwestern 48. Temple T, Oklahoma ARM 41. Tennessee Tech. 0; Tennessee Al. Toledo 2l; Springfield IA. Connecticut G. Brown 49. Case 26; Carnegie Tech 20 Miami 21; Ohio University 0. North Carolina State ‘; Chatta- looga 0. Tufts 13; Williams IA. Kentucky 25; Marquette 0. Cincinnati 16; Butler T. Iowa State ‘; Missouri 49. Michigan 27: Minnesota IA. Maryland 47 George Washington 0. Bates 31 Maine 0. Duke ‘; Virginia Tech. 0. Michigan State fl: Penn State IA. Wesleyan 27; Amherst 0. Lafayette 19; Bucknell ‘. Florida T; Georgia Tech 42. Notre Dame 27; Iowa 12. Nebraska T; Kansas 27. Alahama 10; Mississippi State ‘. Purdue 6; Illinois 10. Vanderbilt 35; Yale 0. Ariny 27; Cornell 6. Dartmouth IA; Harvard T Colgate IA; Holy Gross 13. Wisconsin 32; Ono State 34 Norwich c; Coast Guard 19. Wash. & Lee T; West Virginia 14. William & Mary 6; St. Bonaven- lure T. Indiana 14; Pitt 21. LSU T; North Carolina 34. Princeton IS; Columbia II. Navy 14; Penn, 20.

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)

Illinois 61% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

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 70 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Purdue 24, Illinois 17
2025Illinois 43, Purdue 27
2024Illinois 50, Purdue 49
2023Purdue 44, Illinois 19
2022Purdue 31, Illinois 24
2021Purdue 13, Illinois 9

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