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[9] [10] [11] The 1887 Purdue team played its only game on October 29, 1887, against the Butler College team at Athletic Park in Indianapolis. Butler soundly defeated Berg's squad by a score of 48–6. [12] After the loss to Butler, Purdue did not field a football team again until 1889. [9] [10] Purdue's 1890 football team
Purdue: 14 members of football team were killed in a railroad collision (1903). Northeastern Oklahoma A&M : 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall : 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970).
The Purdue Boilermakers, a college football team based in Indiana, has competed every season since 1889. The team has played in the Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the Western Conference and the Big Ten Conference. The team last won a conference title in 2000. [1]
He served as the head football coach at Purdue University from 1982 to 1986, compiling a record of 21–34–1. In November 1981, Burtnett was promoted as Purdue's 30th head football coach. [ 1 ] During the 1984 campaign, Burtnett's team posted its best season, in which the highlight of the year was beating number 2 Ohio State 28–23. [ 2 ]
This 1943 Boilermakers football team proved unbeatable. Burnham's final football game at Purdue was the traditional season-culminating battle for the Old Oaken Bucket trophy passed between Purdue and arch-rival Indiana University. [67] The year before, the Indiana Hoosiers handed Purdue a 20-0 defeat, the third in three years. [68]
The 1967 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1967 Big Ten Conference football season.In their 12th season under head coach Jack Mollenkopf, the Boilermakers compiled an 8–2 record, finished in a three-way tie for the Big Ten Conference championship with a 6–1 record against conference opponents, and outscored all ...
Men's golf team of 1921. The Purdue golf team inaugural season was in 1921. The team earned a national championship in 1961, and have been Big Ten champions twelve times. [10] The team has had two NCAA individual champions: Fred Wampler in 1950 and Joe Campbell in 1955. [11] [12] The team has also earned 12 Big Ten championships through 2017.
Joseph Henry Tiller (December 7, 1942 – September 30, 2017) was an American football offensive lineman and coach.He served as the head coach of the Calgary Stampeders as an interim head coach in 1976, University of Wyoming from 1991 to 1996, and Purdue University from 1997 to 2008, with a career record of 126–92–1 (.578).