Purdue at Illinois

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  Evening star, October 28, 1952, page 16

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  |SomueIs, SchmoIing of Purdue Strengthen AN-Americu Bids CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Oct. 2S.- Purdue, which doomed its Rose Bowl and Big Ten title stock in saturdays nationally televised 40–⁠12 win over Illinois, also advanced two All-America candidates. Just before the rout of the Illini was viewed by millions from coast to coast, a Purdue partisan complained in the presSbox that Quarterback Dale Samuels and Fullback Max Schmaling were not Igetting proper press notices. “Those two boys are pretty Igood, you’ll see,” he said. With the TV cameras grinding and a Memorial Stadium crowd of 1900 whooping it up, Samuels and Schmaling didn’t let the fellow down. Samuels, a 167-pounder who stands only 5-foot-9. threw foltouchdown passes to match a Big Ten record and completed IL OF IA tosses for 179 yards. Schmaling, a pile-driving 204- FOUNDER. set the Purdue touch down parade rolling with a brilliant 59-yard run and wound up with 112 yards in 16 carries fola SeVen-yard average. The Boilermakers, beaten only by Notre Dame, have played five games in which SamuelS has COM lpleted so of 81 passes for 551 yards and eight touchdowns, while Schmaling has gained 412 yards in “a carries for nearly a five-yard average.

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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 68 since this game.