Butler vs. Purdue
Butler and Purdue have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1892; Purdue leads the series 8–0 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Purdue 8–0, and Purdue has won the last 8. Share
- Butler wins
- 0
- Purdue wins
- 8
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1892
- Longest streak
- 8 Purdue
- Current streak
- 8 Purdue
- Last 10 meetings
- Purdue 8–0
- Most recent
- 1940
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 0–3 | ||||||||||
| 1900s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 0–3 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 0–1 |
- Average margin
- 43.6 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Butler
- 0–2 Butler’s record at home
- At Purdue
- 6–0 Purdue’s record at home
- Shutouts
- 5
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Purdue’s biggest win1893: Purdue 96, Butler 0by 96 points
Both programs through the years
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
1893 · The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], Oct 22, 1893
1930 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 16, 1930
1938 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 2, 1938
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
| Sep 28, 1940 | Purdue 28, Butler 0 | at Purdue | ||
| Oct 1, 1938 | Purdue 21, Butler 6 | at Butler | ||
| Sep 25, 1937 | Purdue 33, Butler 7 | at Purdue | ||
| Nov 15, 1930 | Purdue 33, Butler 0 | at Purdue | ||
| Nov 22, 1902 | Purdue 87, Butler 0 | at Purdue | ||
| Oct 13, 1894 | Purdue 30, Butler 0 | at Butler | ||
| Oct 21, 1893 | Purdue 96, Butler 0 | at Purdue | ||
| Oct 29, 1892 | Purdue 40, Butler 6 | at Purdue |
Every game is listed as played on the field.