1948 Purdue

3–⁠6 (2–⁠4 Western Conference), coached by Stuart Holcomb. Share

Schedule and results

Biggest winBeat Indiana 39–⁠0Nov 20
By 39 points, its widest win.

Each game’s margin, wins above the line and losses below.

Date	Opponent	Result
Sep 25	atNotre Dame	L 27–⁠28	20%
Oct 2	atNorthwestern	L 0–⁠21	40%
Oct 9	vs7Michigan	L 0–⁠40	26%
Oct 16	atIowa	W 20–⁠13	38%
Oct 23	atIllinois	L 6–⁠10	39%
Oct 30	vsMarquette	W 14–⁠9	69%
Nov 6	at19Minnesota	L 7–⁠34	29%
Nov 13	vsPittsburgh	L 13–⁠20	62%
Nov 20	vsIndiana	W 39–⁠0	53%

Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.

How it ended: Beat Indiana 39–⁠0; unranked in the final AP poll; tied for 5th in the Western Conference.

In program history: The 79th-best season in program history by end-of-season Elo (of 135 on file).

AP poll, week by week

Wk 1: 15

Players on this team

Before 2004 our records hold honors and the draft; these are the players whose college years here, from their Wikipedia articles or their honors, include 1948.

Record: 3–⁠6
Conference: 2–⁠4 tied for 5th in Western Conference
AP final: Unranked peak No. 15
Points: 126–⁠175
Coach: Stuart Holcomb
Elo: 1483 −30 this season
SP+ rating: —
SRS: 5.6 No. 43 of 117 major-college teams
Recruiting class: —

Captain: Phil O’Reilly
Most valuable player: Harry Szulborski

Drafted in 1949

The 1949 draft

Rd 2	Bob DeMoss B	New York Bulldogs
Rd 6	Abe Gibron OG	New York Giants

All-Big Nine

2 first team

First team

Phil O’ReillyOTAP-2; INS-1; UP-2
Harry SzulborskiRBAP-1; INS-1; UP-1

From Wikipedia’s 1948 all-conference team article, with the selectors that named each player (AP-1: the Associated Press’s first team).

1948 Western Conference standings

Team	Conf.	Overall	AP final
Michigan	6–⁠0	9–⁠0	1
Northwestern	5–⁠1	8–⁠2	7
Minnesota	5–⁠2	7–⁠2	16
Ohio State	3–⁠3	6–⁠3
Iowa	2–⁠4	4–⁠5
Purdue	2–⁠4	3–⁠6
Indiana	2–⁠4	2–⁠7
Illinois	2–⁠5	3–⁠6
Wisconsin	1–⁠5	2–⁠7

Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied.