Beloit vs. Purdue

Beloit and Purdue first met in 1903 and have played 4 times; Purdue leads the series 4–⁠0. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Purdue 4–⁠0, and Purdue has won the last 4.

Beloit wins
0
Purdue wins
4
Ties
0
First meeting
1903
Longest streak
4 Purdue
Current streak
4 Purdue
Last 10 meetings
Purdue 4–⁠0
Most recent
1915

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠3
1910s0–⁠1
Average margin
22.5 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Purdue
4–⁠0 Purdue’s record at home
Shutouts
4

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Beloit and Purdue, 1903 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The Harrisburg telegraph's story of the 1915 game: FACTSAND FIGURES ABOUT SERIES. FOOTBALL UPSETS FOR BIG TEAMS Penn-State Hands Jolt to Uni versity of Pennsylvania; Yale's Narrow Escape

    1915 · Harrisburg telegraph, Harrisburg, Pa., Oct 11, 1915

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Oct 9, 1915Purdue 26, Beloit 0at Purdue
Sep 30, 1905Purdue 36, Beloit 0at Purdue
Sep 28, 1904Purdue 11, Beloit 0at Purdue
Oct 3, 1903Purdue 17, Beloit 0at Purdue

Every game is listed as played on the field.