Purdue at Illinois
Saturday, October 23, 1948. Illinois took the Purdue Cannon from Purdue Share
Illinois beat Purdue 10–6. It was their 32nd meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 17–10–4 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 60°F, low 42°FAttendance 56,451
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Purdue–Illinois gameOfficially, 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.
| 2026 | Purdue 24, Illinois 17 | |
| 2025 | Illinois 43, Purdue 27 | |
| 2024 | Illinois 50, Purdue 49 | |
| 2023 | Purdue 44, Illinois 19 | |
| 2022 | Purdue 31, Illinois 24 | |
| 2021 | Purdue 13, Illinois 9 |
Around this game
Purdue
- Next gamevs. MarquetteOct. 30, 1948
- SeasonPurdue in 1948
- ProgramPurdue history and records
Illinois
- Next gameat MichiganOct. 30, 1948
- SeasonIllinois in 1948
- ProgramIllinois history and records

