Purdue at Minnesota
Saturday, November 12, 1960 Share
Purdue beat No. 1 Minnesota 23–14. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Minnesota led the series 13–9–3.
FinalHigh 46°F, low 27°FAttendance 61,348
In the newspapers
Evening star, November 13, 1960, page 39
Read the text
Terps Win 22–1o; Navy Cruises; Purdue Spills Gophers> 1914 Bernie Allen Kicks Goal ToAid Upset MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. IL AP).-Purdue’S Boilermakers, four time losers with a disdain for the mighty, caught Mime sofa fiat footed today with a first half aerial offensive and whipped the Nations No. / ranked football team. 23–14. With their dream Of an unbeaten season and National title fading, the Gophers raced
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.
On the newsreel
- PURDUE 23 – MINNESOTA 14At Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Gophers, top-ranked in the nation, take on the challenge of the Purdue Boiler-Makers. Purdue’s first half aerial offensive flattens the Gophers and topples them from unbeaten status, 23-14
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Minnesota 65% to win. Purdue pulled the upset.
The series
Every Purdue–Minnesota gameMinnesota leads 42–36–3 in 81 meetings, counting the 56 since this game.
| 2026 | Purdue 41, Minnesota 13 | |
| 2025 | Minnesota 27, Purdue 20 | |
| 2023 | Purdue 49, Minnesota 30 | |
| 2022 | Purdue 20, Minnesota 10 | |
| 2021 | Minnesota 20, Purdue 13 | |
| 2020 | Minnesota 34, Purdue 31 |
Around this game
Purdue
- Next gamevs. IndianaNov. 19, 1960
- SeasonPurdue in 1960
- ProgramPurdue history and records
Minnesota
- Next gameat WisconsinNov. 19, 1960
- SeasonMinnesota in 1960
- ProgramMinnesota history and records