Purdue at Wisconsin

Saturday, October 8, 1960

Wisconsin beat No. 7 Purdue 24–⁠13. It was their 42nd meeting; after it, Wisconsin led the series 23–⁠13–⁠6.

Away7Purdue4–⁠4–⁠1 in 1960
13
HomeWisconsin4–⁠5 in 1960
24

FinalHigh 68°F, low 47°FAttendance 58,292

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: gTen Teams DominateAP's Weekly Poll

    Evening star, October 11, 1960, page 16

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    gTen Teams DominateAP’s Weekly Poll Three Big Ten teams are among the nine leading chaIlengers for MissiSsippi’s No. / spot in college football and the oft-repeated contention that the Big Ten plays the tough est schedules of all is In for a test in the next couple OF weeks. Mississippi regained the top place in the voting of the Associated Press panel of 48 news. paper, TV and radio football experts when Syracuse, the 1859 national champion, barely beat a winless but fired-up Holy Cross team, 1876. Ole Miss, impressive in its $50 victory over Vanderbilt Saturday night, polled 19 of the 48 f1rst-place votes and 428 points on a 1898, ect., basis. Iowa, Ohio State and SYRIA cuSe followed in that order and monopolized the rest of the f1rSt-place ballots. Minnesota Is 10th Iowa had II firsts and All points, Ohio State z and 305 and Syracuse 4 and 1862. A week ago Syracuse drew 90 of the votes for top place. Mime sofa gained 10th place in the balloting. The So places in the top 10 were filled by Navy, Missouri,, Baylor, Clemson and Kansas. Mississippi, current South eastern Conference leader with a 20 conference record and 40 overall, doesn’t have an easy assignment this week. The Rebels play Tulane, ILL against rugged opposition. Tulane has beaten California, 7–⁠3, tied Alabama, 6–⁠6, and lost to Rice, 10–⁠7. Iowa, which downed Michigan State, 27–⁠15. last Saturday, takes on l2th-place Wisconsin, a 24–⁠13 winner over Purdue, this week. Then come Purdue, See POLL, Page ALT

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 57% to win. Wisconsin pulled the upset. Elo’s favorite won.

Wisconsin leads 54–⁠29–⁠8 in 91 meetings, counting the 49 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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