1970 Purdue Boilermakers football team

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1970 Big Ten Conference football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 5 Ohio State $	7	–	0	–	0			9	–	1	–	0
No. 9 Michigan	6	–	1	–	0			9	–	1	–	0
Northwestern	6	–	1	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Iowa	3	–	3	–	1			3	–	6	–	1
Wisconsin	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	5	–	1
Michigan State	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Minnesota	2	–	4	–	1			3	–	6	–	1
Purdue	2	–	5	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Illinois	1	–	6	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
Indiana	1	–	6	–	0			1	–	9	–	0
$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1970 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 1970 college football season. This was Purdue's first losing season since 1956.

Schedule

September 19TCU*

• Ross-Ade Stadium
• West Lafayette, IN

W 15–0 65,808 September 26at No. 6 Notre Dame*

• Notre Dame Stadium
• Notre Dame, IN (Shillelagh Trophy)

L 0–48 59,075 October 3at No. 3 Stanford*

• Stanford Stadium
• Stanford, CA

W 26–14 62,000 October 10No. 7 Michigan

• Ross-Ade Stadium
• West Lafayette, IN

L 0–29 69,021 October 17at Iowa

• Kinnick Stadium
• Iowa City, IA

W 24–3 56,973 October 24at Northwestern

• Dyche Stadium
• Evanston, IL

L 14–38 38,722 October 31Illinois

• Ross-Ade Stadium
• West Lafeyette, IN

L 21–23 67,747 November 7at Michigan State

• Spartan Stadium
• East Lansing, MI

L 14–24 61,113 November 14Ohio State

• Ross-Ade Stadium
• West Lafayette, IN

L 3–10 68,157 November 21Indiana

• Ross-Ade Stadium
• West Lafayette, IN

W 40–0 69,357

Starters

Offense: se Stingley, lt Paul DeNuccio, lg Huxhold, c Watkins, rg Luken, rt Green, te Bell/Cota, qb Danielson/Piebes, hb Armstrong, fb North, fl Brown, K Jones

Defense: le Handy/Tekavec, lt Maree, mg Molls/Bingham, rt Davis, re Hrivnak, lb Paravskevas, lb Teal, cb A. Carter, db McDaniel/Potts, s deGrandmaison, rip Cooper, p Lougheed

Staff

HC: Bob DeMoss

Ast: Bob Geiger, Allen Hager, C.W. Hewgley, Wayne Jones, Ned Maloney, Ron Meyer, Al Parker, Tom Roggeman, Dale Samuels

Season summary

TCU

Otis Armstrong 22 Rush, 100 Yds

Stanford

1 2 3 4 Total • Purdue 16 0 7 3 26 Stanford 0 0 7 7 14 Date: October 3 Location: Stanford Stadium, Stanford, CA Game attendance: 62,000

Scoring summary Q1 PUR Piebes 3 yard run (Jones kick) PUR 7–0 Q1 PUR Safety, Kauffman tackled in end zone PUR 9–0 Q1 PUR Brown 9 yard run (Jones kick) PUR 16–0 Q3 8:26 STAN Plunkett 1 yard run (Horowitz kick) PUR 16–6 Q3 PUR Brown 4 yard run (Jones kick) PUR 23–6 Q4 PUR Jones 33 yard field goal PUR 26–6 Q4 STAN Brown 44 yard pass from Plunkett (Horowitz kick) PUR 26–13

Purdue intercepted Stanford quarterback Jim Plunkett five times.