Iowa at Purdue
Saturday, October 6, 1951 Share
Purdue beat Iowa 34–30. It was their 30th meeting; after it, Purdue led the series 17–12–1.
FinalHigh 85°F, low 56°FAttendance 25,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 7, 1951, page 44
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Score in Last Minute Gives Purdue Victory Over Iowa, “a 10 80 LAFAYETTE. . Ind. Oct. g. Rebounding Purdue scored in the last minute to beat Iowa today, 1870. in spite of a three-touchdown performance by Sophomore George DUSTY Rice of Iowa. Rice’s sparkling show included an end-zone to end-zone run with the opening kickoff. Only one minute remained when Quarterback Dale Samuels passed 38 yards to Tom Hedinger, substitute halfback, for the winning touchdown. Purdue never led until the final Touchdown, although it overcame a two-touchdown deficit for . 1920 tie at the half. 1t was nine points behond. 1920. when Sam uels threw two touchdown passes in the last half of the final period Phil Klezek caught the first one on a 47-yard play. Rice scored again in the seconc quarter on a pass from Burt Britzmann good for SIS yards. The sophomore broke loose again later in the same period. cutting ar IS” shaped path through the Purdue secondary for 50 yards 224 yards on three runs. TSHs B”rsu. .----------6 51S 3 Ia Iowa scoring: Touchdowns-Rice go Ruck. Conversions-Reichardt t3). Fielt goal-Reichardt | Purdue scoring: Touchdowns, Mateja Thorpe. Samuels, KleZek. Redinger. Con yersionS-Samuels a..
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)
Purdue 51% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Iowa–Purdue gamePurdue leads 50–41–3 in 94 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.
| 2023 | Iowa 20, Purdue 14 | |
| 2022 | Iowa 24, Purdue 3 | |
| 2021 | Purdue 24, Iowa 7 | |
| 2020 | Purdue 24, Iowa 20 | |
| 2019 | Iowa 26, Purdue 20 | |
| 2018 | Purdue 38, Iowa 36 |
Around this game
Iowa
- Next gamevs. PittsburghOct. 13, 1951
- SeasonIowa in 1951
- ProgramIowa history and records
Purdue
- Next gameat MiamiOct. 12, 1951
- SeasonPurdue in 1951
- ProgramPurdue history and records

