Northwestern and Purdue have 90 meetings on file, the first in 1895; Purdue leads the series 53–36–1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Northwestern 7–3, and Northwestern has won the last 3. Share
Scheduled2028 at Purdue. As the programs’ Wikipedia articles list them (CC BY-SA).
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Northwestern’s side (Thistlethwaite 3–2 against Phelan). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Northwestern PurdueTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
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.
1909 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 10, 1909
1912 · Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.], Nov 3, 1912
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.
From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited), and the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Division (no known restrictions on publication).
