1975 Purdue Boilermakers football team

1975 Purdue Boilermakers football
Conference Big Ten Conference
1975 record 4–7 (4–4 Big Ten)
Head coach Alex Agase
MVP Mike Pruitt
Captain Ken Long
Captain Ken Novak
Captain Mike Pruitt
Home stadium Ross-Ade Stadium
1975 Big Ten football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#4 Ohio State † 8 – 0 – 0     11 – 1 – 0
#8 Michigan 7 – 1 – 0     8 – 2 – 2
Michigan State 4 – 4 – 0     7 – 4 – 0
Illinois 4 – 4 – 0     5 – 6 – 0
Purdue 4 – 4 – 0     4 – 7 – 0
Wisconsin 3 – 4 – 1     4 – 6 – 1
Minnesota 3 – 5 – 0     6 – 5 – 0
Iowa 3 – 5 – 0     3 – 8 – 0
Northwestern 2 – 6 – 0     3 – 8 – 0
Indiana 1 – 6 – 1     2 – 8 – 1
† – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1975 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 1975 college football season.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 13 at Northwestern Dyche Stadium • Evanston, IL L 25–31   22,000
September 20 #9 Notre Dame* Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN (Shillelagh Trophy) L 0–17   69,795
September 27 at #3 USC* Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA L 6–19   56,170
October 4 Miami (OH)* Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN L 3–14   52,309
October 11 Wisconsindagger Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN L 14–17   62,406
October 18 at Illinois Memorial Stadium • Champaign, IL W 26–24   61,204
October 25 #1 Ohio State Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN L 6–35   69,405
November 1 Michigan State Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN W 20–10   57,104
November 8 at #6 Michigan Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, MI L 0–28   102,415
November 15 Iowa Ross-Ade Stadium • West Lafayette, IN W 19–18   45,549
November 22 at Indiana Memorial Stadium • Bloomington, IN W 9–7   43,455
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll.

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Starters

Offense: se Arnold, ot Stapleton, og Gibson, c Polak, sg Zelencik, st Long, te Wirgowski, qb Vitali, fl Beery, fb Pruitt, tb Dierking, k Schmidt

Defense: le Smith, lt Novak, mg Gorgal/Ruwe, rt Parker, re Hardy, lb Sullivan, lb Mannella, cb DiMarzio/Harris, cb Cooper, s Wood/Lewis, s Andres/Thompson, p Vitali

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Coaching staff

HC: Alex Agase

Ast: George Catavolos, Fred Conti, Jack Ellis, Bob Geiger, Jerry Hartman, Pat Naughton, Tom Roggeman, Rick Venturi, Mike Wynn

Game summaries

USC

Wisconsin

Illinois

Ohio State

Michigan State

Iowa

1 234Total
Iowa 0 1503 18
• Purdue 7 0012 19
  • Date: November 15
  • Location: Ross-Ade Stadium
  • Game attendance: 45,549

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 2010 Purdue football information guide
  2. ↑ Palm Beach Post. 1975 Nov 16.