1943 Purdue Boilermakers football team
| 1943 Purdue Boilermakers football | |
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Big Ten co-champion | |
| Conference | Big Ten Conference |
| Ranking | |
| AP | No. 5 |
| Record | 9–0 (6–0 Big Ten) |
| Head coach |
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| MVP | Dick Barwegen |
| Captain | None |
| Home stadium | Ross–Ade Stadium |
Seasons | |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 5 Purdue + | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 3 Michigan + | 6 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 9 Northwestern | 5 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indiana | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minnesota | 2 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 5 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Illinois | 2 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 7 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wisconsin | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iowa | 0 | – | 4 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1943 Purdue Boilermaker football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1943 Big Ten Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Elmer Burnham, the Boilermakers compiled an undefeated 9–0 record (6–0 in conference games), won the Big Ten championship, outscored their opponents by a total of 214 to 55, and were ranked No. 5 in the final AP poll.
The 1943 squad was the only undefeated team playing a full schedule in major college football, but finished fifth in the AP Poll.
The 1942 Purdue team had won only one game, but the 1943 team was bolstered with several new players who had been transferred to Purdue as part of the V-12 Navy College Training Program.[1]
Purdue guard Alex Agase was selected as a consensus first-team player on the 1943 All-America Team,[2] and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Fullback Tony Butkovich was also selected as a first-team All-American by The Sporting News , the United Press, the Central Press, and Stars and Stripes newspaper. Butkovich led the Big Ten in scoring with 14 touchdowns despite missing the last two games after being called to active duty by the Marines; he was killed in action at the Battle of Okinawa in April 1945.
Schedule
[edit ]| Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| September 18 | at Great Lakes Navy * |
| W 23–13 | 22,000 | ||
| September 25 | at Marquette * | W 21–0 | 22,000 | [3] | ||
| October 2 | Illinois | W 40–21 | 15,000 | |||
| October 9 | Camp Grant * | No. 7 |
| W 19–0 | 13,000 | |
| October 16 | vs. Ohio State | No. 5 | W 30–7 | 41,509 | ||
| October 23 | Iowa dagger | No. 4 |
| W 28–7 | 15,000 | |
| October 30 | at Wisconsin | No. 4 | W 32–0 | 10,000 | ||
| November 6 | at Minnesota | No. 2 | W 14–7 | 43,000 | ||
| November 20 | Indiana | No. 3 |
| W 7–0 | 15,000 | |
Rankings
[edit ]| Week | |||||||||
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| Poll | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Final |
| AP | 7 (2) | 5 | 4 (1) | 4 (1) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 (12) |
Game summaries
[edit ]Illinois
[edit ]- Tony Butkovich 12 rushes, 207 yards [5]
Ohio State
[edit ]Iowa
[edit ]- Tony Butkovich 19 rushes, 149 yards[8]
Wisconsin
[edit ]Roster
[edit ]Players
[edit ]- Alex Agase, guard #95
- Dick Barwegen, guard #21
- Frank Bauman, end #74
- Joe Buscemi, end #50
- Dick Bushnell #29
- Jack Butt, guard #40
- Tony Butkovich, #25, fullback
- Jim Darr, back #70
- Boris Dimancheff #87
- Stan Dubicki, back #22
- Bump Elliott#18
- John Genis, tackle #69
- Herbert Hoffman, end #99
- Tom Hughes, tackle #44
- Mike Kasap, tackle #64
- Bill Newell #96
- Bill O'Keefe, end #34
- Keith Parker, back #88
- Bill Stuart, halfback #89
- Sam Vacanti #33
- John Staak, tackle #32
- Lewis Rose, Halfback #36
Coaches and administrators
[edit ]- Head coach: Elmer Burnham
- Assistant coaches: Cecil Isbell, Sam Voinoff, Joe Dienhart[11]
- Athletic director: Guy "Red" Mackey
References
[edit ]- ^ "1943 Purdue Marines" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
- ^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2014. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
- ^ "Purdue Beats Hilltops, 21-0: Boilermaker Ground Attack Too Strong". The Wisconsin State Journal. September 26, 1943. p. 24 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "2022 Purdue Football Record Book" (PDF). Purdue University Athletics. p. 85. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
- ^ 2020 Purdue Record Book. Retrieved 2020-Dec-20.
- ^ 2020 Purdue Record Book. Retrieved 2021-Jan-01.
- ^ 2020 Purdue Record Book. Retrieved 2021-Jan-01.
- ^ 2020 Purdue Record Book. Retrieved 2020-Dec-27.
- ^ 2020 Purdue Record Book. Retrieved 2020-Dec-27.
- ^ 2020 Purdue Record Book. Retrieved 2021-Jan-02.
- ^ 1944 Purdue yearbook, p. 217.