Earlham vs. Purdue

Earlham and Purdue have 4 meetings on file, the first in 1899; Purdue leads the series 4–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 4 meetings it’s Purdue 4–⁠0, and Purdue has won the last 4.

Earlham wins
0
Purdue wins
4
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1899
Longest streak
4 Purdue
Current streak
4 Purdue
Last 10 meetings
Purdue 4–⁠0
Most recent
1908

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1890s0–⁠1
1900s0–⁠3
Average margin
30 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Earlham
0–⁠1 Earlham’s record at home
At Purdue
3–⁠0 Purdue’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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 Earlham and Purdue, 1899 on1300150017001900190519101915

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 The Indianapolis journal's story of the 1900 game: EARLHAM LOST IN THE MUD. Purdue Piled I'D n Score of IS to on the Lafayette Gridiron.

    1900 · The Indianapolis journal, Indianapolis [Ind.], Nov 18, 1900

  • The The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram's story of the 1908 game: SHOWED UNDER BY PURDUE Quakers Defeated by Decisive Score of 40 to 0 Sat- urday. TACKLING WAS HIGH. CuAKERs SEEMED TO BE Def. GENT IN THIS ESSENTIAL OF GAME-cAPT. HARRELL REND- Erred UNCONSCIOUS.

    1908 · The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram, Richmond, Ind., Oct 11, 1908

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 10, 1908Purdue 40, Earlham 0at Purdue
Oct 1, 1904Purdue 28, Earlham 11at Earlham
Nov 17, 1900Purdue 38, Earlham 0at Purdue
Oct 7, 1899Purdue 30, Earlham 5at Purdue

Every game is listed as played on the field.