Purdue at Wisconsin

Saturday, October 20, 1956

No. 17 Purdue and Wisconsin tied 6–⁠6. It was their 38th meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 20–⁠12–⁠6.

Away17Purdue3–⁠4–⁠2 in 1956
6
HomeWisconsin1–⁠5–⁠3 in 1956
6

FinalAttendance 53,044

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Badgers Nuff Breaks and Tie With Purdue

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 21, 1956, page 1

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    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.

Wisconsin leads 54–⁠29–⁠8 in 91 meetings, counting the 53 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Wisconsin 52, Purdue 6
2023Wisconsin 38, Purdue 17
2022Wisconsin 35, Purdue 24
2021Wisconsin 30, Purdue 13
2019Wisconsin 45, Purdue 24
2018Wisconsin 47, Purdue 44

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