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Purdue even operated its own railroad to connect the campus powerplant to a main rail line. The American Railway Association Building, which stands on the West Lafayette campus to the southwest of the Mechanical Engineering Building, is one of the few remaining vestiges of the railroad testing which occurred on the campus.
DeMoss played football as a quarterback at Purdue from 1945 to 1948. [2] He helped the Boilermakers win their first four games and move into the national rankings at No. 9. The next week, he led the Boilermakers into Ohio Stadium, where they routed the #4 team in the country, 35-13 [5] [6] He was then selected in the second round of the 1949 NFL draft by the New York Bulldogs, for whom he ...
Isaac Douglas Jones (born December 7, 1975) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League.He was signed Indianapolis Colts as an Undrafted free agent in 1999.
Purdue Pete’s uniforms are old gold and black, which are Purdue’s school colors. [3] Purdue Pete carries a large hammer, reminiscent of the type of large mallets used to mold steel by boilermakers. The current head utilizes a fiberglass frame, but is much smaller and lighter than previous designs, as it is made primarily of a composite. [7]
Purdue won each of its two home games in convincing fashion, shutting out Wabash, 54–0, on October 24 and Illinois, 62–0, on November 22. They also shut out DePauw in Greencastle, Indiana, 32–0. Purdue suffered its worst loss of the season on November 1 in Ann Arbor, falling to Michigan by a score of 34–6.
Purdue hired Barry Odom on Sunday to be its football coach, fresh off Odom leading UNLV to its best season in 40 years.. Odom, 48, is 44-33 in six seasons as a coach, including four at Missouri ...
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Purdue became known as the Boilermakers the next year. [4] Several of the local schools added to the boilermaker tradition by suggesting that Purdue was going up the Wabash River and hiring workers from the nearby Monon railroad yards to play football. Purdue's official mascot is a locomotive, the Boilermaker Special. The Monon Railroad had its ...