Purdue at Purdue Alumni

Saturday, September 17, 1904

Purdue Alumni beat Purdue 6–⁠2. It was their fourth meeting; Purdue Alumni leads the series 2–⁠1–⁠1.

AwayPurdue9–⁠3 in 1904
2
HomePurdue Alumni1–⁠0 in 1904
6

Final

In the newspapers

  • The The Washington times's story: PURDUE ALUMNI BEAT VARSITY MEN

    The Washington times, Washington [D.C.], September 18, 1904, page 8

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    PURDUE ALUMNI BEAT VARSITY MEN LAFAYETTE. Ind. Sept 17-EIeven football stars OF former days. composing the alumni tedm, defeated the Purdue varsity eleven this afternoon ON Stuart Field by a score of 6 to o. Neither side scored in the first half but in the second. KerIzhoN the Giant guard of the alumni, was used fire. quently, and carried the ball for Mt least ten yards each time, making the touch down I’m the second half The varsity played a loose game throughout The afternoon was unmercifully hot for the men in mole skins.

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)

Purdue 79% to win. Purdue Alumni pulled the upset.

Purdue Alumni leads 2–⁠1–⁠1 in four meetings.

Recent meetings
1904Purdue Alumni 6, Purdue 2
1899Purdue 10, Purdue Alumni 5
1898Purdue Alumni 6, Purdue 0
1897Purdue Alumni 0, Purdue 0

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