Illinois at Purdue
Saturday, October 22, 1904 Share
Illinois beat Purdue 24–6. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Illinois led the series 6–4–2 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 50°F, low 40°F, 0.07 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Waterbury evening Democrat, October 24, 1904, page 9 (results column)
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OTHER GAMES Annapolis, which beat Princeton last week, could only tie Dickinson college, o to O. The middies were. great offend. CTS in all kinds of fouling and Grady was ordered off the field. Dartmouth beat Holy Cross at Wor. cester IS to 4. Holy Cross scored on place kick from the thirty-five yard line. Cornell beat Franklin and Marshall B to 5. The Cornell line was strong, but the ends were easily fooled Syracuse beat Niagara g to A.. Mi agara kicked a goal from the thirty. yard line. Lafayette and Swarthmore had it hot and heavy, but the former team won, 4 to o. Amherst continued it’s victorious ca, reer by, beating Brown 5 to 0. Brown rushed the ball to Amherst’s three yard line in the first half, but there Amherst held. Other football scores were: At Haverford-Haverford F, Ur. sinus 0. At Washington-G Georgetown 47, Washington and Lee 0. At Lakeville-Hotchkiss 6, Yale Freshmen O. At Schenectady-Un 21, Rensse> lar Polytechnic Institute 0. At Watertown-Watertown 5, Syra- cuse o. At Albany Williams B, Hamilton At Burlington-U University of Yer mont 6, Tufts 6. | At Exeter-Phillips Exeter 24, liar ward second o. At Andover-Phillips-A -Andover 28 Harvard Freshmen 0. A aI z Tee A At Pittsburg rg-Pennsylvania State 1 12, Washington and Jefferson O. At Lewiston-Bates 6, University of Maine 0. At Dover New Hampshire State IS l Worcester Poly 4. l At Ann Arbor Michigan 13O, West l Virginia o. At Columbus Ohio State university | 16, Case 0. 1 At Lafayette Illinois 24. Purdue 6. At Madison-Wis S1, Drake O. ! At Lincoln-Nebraska 34. Knox 0. At St Louisr-Indiana 21, Washington At afinneapolis-Min 14e l Grinnell O. At Chicago-Chicago g, Northwest ern O. At New York-N. Y university 6 | Trinity 0. At Middletown-Wesleyan 30. Rut. gers 0. At Hartford -SIeriden High 6, Hart, ford High 0.
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)
Illinois 55% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Illinois–Purdue gameOfficially, Purdue leads 49–47–6; as played, 48–47–6 in the 101 games on file; the official count covers all 102 meetings, counting the 89 since this game.
| 2026 | Purdue 24, Illinois 17 | |
| 2025 | Illinois 43, Purdue 27 | |
| 2024 | Illinois 50, Purdue 49 | |
| 2023 | Purdue 44, Illinois 19 | |
| 2022 | Purdue 31, Illinois 24 | |
| 2021 | Purdue 13, Illinois 9 |
Around this game
Illinois
- Next gameat ChicagoOct. 29, 1904
- SeasonIllinois in 1904
- ProgramIllinois history and records
Purdue
- Next gameat MissouriOct. 28, 1904
- SeasonPurdue in 1904
- ProgramPurdue history and records

