Illinois at Purdue

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  Evening star, October 23, 1949, page 42

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  Illinois Defeats Purdue, 1910, Takes First Place in Big Ten covered .121 yards. Right Half back Karras, 10 pounds lighter but no easier to stop, carried 19 times for Ill yards. Their COM bined total was only 81 yards short of Purdue’s total gain by rushing. Schmidt scored Illinois second touchdown and helped set up the first. but a couple of reserves got into the scoring statistics. Chris Pagakis, moved up from the junior varsity today because regular Halfback Sam Piazza was i’ll. plunged from the 3-yard line in the third quarter. In the fourth period, Schmidt galloped A yards down the side lines to the Purdue Z and dived over from the one on third down. Sub Half back Don Stevens threw a 49, yard touchdown pass to Walt Kersulis with 20 seconds left in the game. Illinois @ o q 13–⁠1a Purdue q d q q Illinois scoring: TouchdownsNPagakis schmidt, Kersulis; point after touchdown Leyanti

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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 69 since this game.