Missouri at Purdue

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., September 30, 1956, page 1

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  LAFAYETTE, Ind, Sept. rs | (P.-Tommy Fletcher ignored a bad leg and gave Purdue the break-away running it needed to beat Missouri in the Boiler makers football opener today I16–⁠7. With Quarterback Len Dawson throwing and Fullback Mel Dill lard pounding up the middle Fletcher’S elusiveness was just what Purdue needed. He carried the ball on seven of the II plays i’m Purdue’s first-quarter touch down drive, and he cut IS yards through the Tiger defense for the game-winning margin in the third period. Jimmy Hunter. slick Missouri quarterback, put life in the Tigers with a 68-yard return OF the second-half kickoff to the Purdue 17-yard line. He was shaken up and replaced by Dave Doane, who hit Charley James with a pass on the 1-yard line and then sneaked over on the next play. Fletcher. who had been rest ing a pulled leg muscle on the bench, came back to spark the Purdue offense late in the thirc quarter. Two runs by billiard and ont by John Brideweser carried the ball from the Purdue 37-yarc

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Purdue leads 7–⁠3 in 10 meetings, counting the three since this game.