Notre Dame at Purdue

Saturday, November 3, 1906

Notre Dame beat Purdue 2–⁠0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Purdue led the series 3–⁠2–⁠2 as played.

AwayNotre Dame1–⁠1 in 1906
2
HomePurdue0–⁠5 in 1906
0

FinalHigh 58°F, low 31°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Minneapolis journal's story: PURDUE THRAsHED J y 2 'F 3e}@F to 49, IN W|NsOME STYLE Notre Dame Team. Does Not AL low Guests Smell of Score One Safety Counts.

    The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., November 4, 1906, page 34

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    PURDUE THRAsHED J y 2 ‘F 3e}@F to 49, IN W|NsOME STYLE Notre Dame Team. Does Not AL low Guests Smell of Score One Safety Counts. Special to The Journal Lafayette, Ind, Nov. 3.-With 4,0uU people on the seats and the Indiana and Wabash football squads sitting on the side lines as guests Of Purdue, the boilermakers were beaten by Notre Dame on Stuart field by the score Of 2 to O.. The safety occurred when Elem on the ball behind the goal posts. |; Fleming kicked off to Dolan, who was downed on Notre Danes 30-yard the Purdue line, but the boilermakers became stronger and stopped the on slaughts. There was an exchange of punts and Purdue tried the visitors line. The gains were small. | On a double pass, Diener to CALI crate, the latter rand sixty yards for a touchdown, but it was not allowed, as Notre Dame held. Notre Dame FUN bled and Long fell on the ball. Chap man was hurt and Reed. succeeded him. Purdue was soon forced to punt. Bracket lost fifteen yards on quarterback run. Notre Dame thus far did not try any Of the new plays, using old methods. IT. With the ball on Purdue’s 25-yard line, Callicrate punted to Fleming, who caught. the ball on Purdue’s 3-yard line: He, dropped the ball trying for pass and Holdson fell on the ball for a safety. The score, Notre Dame, 2; Purdue 0. @ That was the end of the scoring, the second half being played on close Notre Dame.:t} ,rt~-s7r gift p 4

  • The The Lake County times's story: NOTRE DAME IS BUOYANT; DEFEATS PURDUE 2 TO O. VIII Battle With Indiana Next Satur- day at Indianapolis, for the State ChampiOnship-VictO Stirs Things Up.

    The Lake County times, Hammond, Ind., November 5, 1906, page 7

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    NOTRE DAME IS BUOYANT; DEFEATS PURDUE 2 TO O. VIII Battle With Indiana Next Saturday at Indianapolis, for the State ChampiOnship-VictO Stirs Things Up. Great JOY prevails at Notre Dame today and the football team is the cause of it all. The squad returned yesterday noon from Lafayette and was given a reception such as no team has ever received here before. It has been so long since Notre Dame has won anything in football worth win ming that a state of Indifference was thought to exist, but the victory over Purdue has stirred things UP. Indiana and Notre Dame will battle next Saturday at Indianapolis for the supremacy of the state, and indicalions are that all attendance records for football in Indiana will be broken. Notre Dame will have as many, if not more, rooters on the scene of acton than the down state eleven. A special train will be run from Notre Dame. The squad will begin hard work at once and try to get in superb form for the contest. Night work will be inaugurated today.

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 66% to win. Notre Dame pulled the upset.

Officially, Notre Dame leads 60–⁠26–⁠2; as played, 62–⁠26–⁠2 in 90 meetings, counting the 83 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Notre Dame 49, Purdue 10
2025Notre Dame 56, Purdue 30
2024Notre Dame 66, Purdue 7
2021Notre Dame 27, Purdue 13
2014Notre Dame 30, Purdue 14
2013Notre Dame 31, Purdue 24

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