Purdue at Wisconsin
Saturday, October 20, 1956 Share
No. 17 Purdue and Wisconsin tied 6–6. It was their 38th meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 20–12–6.
FinalAttendance 53,044
In the newspapers

Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 21, 1956, page 1
Read the text
Badgers Nuff Breaks and Tie With Purdue MADISON. WIS, Oct. 20 (P), A Wisconsin team unable to take advantage of many breaks that went its way had to settle for a 6–6 tie with Purdue in a Big Ten Conference football game today before capacity crowd of 1904. The Badgers scored the first time they had the ball in the
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)
Wisconsin 51% to win.
The series
Every Purdue–Wisconsin gameWisconsin leads 54–29–8 in 91 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.
| 2024 | Wisconsin 52, Purdue 6 | |
| 2023 | Wisconsin 38, Purdue 17 | |
| 2022 | Wisconsin 35, Purdue 24 | |
| 2021 | Wisconsin 30, Purdue 13 | |
| 2019 | Wisconsin 45, Purdue 24 | |
| 2018 | Wisconsin 47, Purdue 44 |
Around this game
Purdue
- Next gamevs. IowaOct. 27, 1956
- SeasonPurdue in 1956
- ProgramPurdue history and records
Wisconsin
- Next gameat Ohio StateOct. 27, 1956
- SeasonWisconsin in 1956
- ProgramWisconsin history and records

