Football
Main article: Old Oaken Bucket See also: Indiana Hoosiers football and Purdue Boilermakers football| Indiana | Purdue | |
|---|---|---|
| Series wins | 37 | 72 |
| Big Ten Championships | 2 | 8 |
| Bowl Game Appearances | 9 | 15 |
Indiana and Purdue first met in football in 1891 and in 1908 the two schools began a tradition of concluding their regular seasons by playing each other. This tradition has been interrupted only occasionally (World War I, September 11, Hawaii trips), but for the most part, Indiana and Purdue have ended the season by playing each other. Purdue leads the all-time series 72–37–6, with the Boilermakers winning the most recent meeting 56 - 35 in West Lafayette.
In 1925 the teams played for the Old Oaken Bucket for the first time. While the presentation of the trophy dates 86 years, the bucket itself is more than 100 years old. The winner of the bucket gets a "P" or "I" link added to the chain of the bucket with the score, date and the city where the game was played engraved on the link. In case of a tie, an "I–P" link is added. The first Old Oaken Bucket game ended in a 0–0 tie, resulting in the first "I-P" link. Purdue leads the all-time Bucket series 57–27–3.
Read more about this topic: Indiana–Purdue Rivalry
Famous quotes containing the word football:
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)