Northwestern at Purdue

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 13, 1955, page 64

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  Purdue ROuts Northwestern LAFAYETTE, Ind, Nov. II tP1. Purdne’s Len Dawson threw three touchdown passes. one Of them to Sophomore Erich Barnes for record 95 yards, and the Boilermakers inflicted Northwestern,s eighth straight defeat today, 46–⁠8. The hungry Wildcats led twice in the fifst half before Dawson stood 5 yards deep in his end zone and hit Barnes on the Purdue %. Barnes ran Neil Erickson. Northwestern safety man, into the ground in q IT. yard race the rest Of the way, The old Big Tep record for a scoring pass was 81 yards, Indiana’s Lou D’Acl1ille TO Bob Robertson against Iowa IN 1850. Northwestern made a game Of .it for a half, Dale Pienta, first string Wildcat quarterback, threw a 39-yard scoring pass to IHalfback Frank Jeske in the first quarter. Dawson passed 5 yards to Jim Whitmer for q touchdown early In the Second quarter, but a bad pass from center forced Dawson into a safety and Northwestern led, 81. Then Dawson and Barnes combined for their long play and Purdue ran away for its third Big Ten victory against two defeats and a tie. Northwestern q o. { Purdue II II 1s-4d northwestern scoring Touchdown, Jeske 49, pass from Piental. Safety, Daxson tpass from center into enc zonels Purdue scoring TouchdoNns ] Whitmer 10 pass-rnn from paWsopli Earnes i95. pass-fun from DaEsoni, Vortex ts4. blocked punt rum: Neses fS runs IL, pass from Daws0ai !; Peters 2, Tun1s Kurtz TAI, rum. Conyersipns: Dawson 4.

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Purdue leads 53–⁠36–⁠1 in 90 meetings, counting the 57 since this game.