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Purdue football

Purdue Boilermakers football
2017 Purdue Boilermakers football team
Purdue Boilermakers logo.svg
First season 1887
Athletic director Mike Bobinski
Head coach Jeff Brohm
1st year, 0–0 (–)
Other staff Co-OC Brian Brohm & Tony Levine
Stadium Ross–Ade Stadium
Year built 1924
Seating capacity 57,236
Field surface Bermuda Grass
Location West Lafayette, Indiana
NCAA division Division I FBS
Conference Big Ten
Division West
Past conferences Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1890–1895)
All-time record 601–553–48 (.520)
Bowl record 9–8 (.529)
Conference titles 12
Consensus All-Americans 20
Colors Black and Old Gold
         
Fight song Hail Purdue!
Mascot Boilermaker Special
Purdue Pete
Marching band Purdue All-American Marching Band
Rivals Indiana Hoosiers
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Illinois Fighting Illini
Website PurdueSports.com

The Purdue Boilermakers football team represents Purdue University (also referred to as simply "Purdue") in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of college football. Purdue plays its home games at Ross–Ade Stadium on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The head coach of Purdue is Jeff Brohm, the 36th head coach in program history. The Boilermakers compete in the Big Ten Conference as a member of the West Division. Purdue had most recently been a part of the Leaders Division of the Big Ten, but moved to the West Division in 2014 due to conference expansion.

With a 598–545–48 record at the conclusion of the 2015 season, Purdue has the 47th-most victories among NCAA FBS programs. Purdue was originally classified as a Major College school in the 1937 season until 1972. Purdue received Division I classification in 1973, becoming a Division I-A program from 1978 to 2006 and an FBS program from 2006 to the present. The Boilermakers have registered 64 winning seasons in their history, with 19 of those seasons resulting in eight victories or more, 10 seasons resulting in at least nine wins, and one season with ten victories or more. Of those successful campaigns, Purdue has produced five unbeaten seasons in its history, going 4–0 in 1891, 8–0 in 1892, 8–0 in 1929, 7–0–1 in 1932 and 9–0 in 1943. The Boilermakers have won a total of 12 conference championships in their history; eight Big Ten Conference titles and four Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association titles.

The Purdue University football team traces its origin back to October 29, 1887, when its team fell to Butler College by a score of 48-6 in Indianapolis, Indiana. A group of students at Purdue University formed the school's first football team in 1887.Albert Berg was hired as the coach. Despite being deaf, Berg was reportedly "the only man in the territory with any knowledge of the game." Berg was 23 years old when he became Purdue's football "coacher." He was paid $1 for each lesson he gave to the newly organized football team and had only one week to prepare the team for its first game. The 1887 Purdue team played its only game on October 29, 1887, against the Butler College team at Athletic Park in Indianapolis. Butler soundly defeated Berg's squad by a score of 48–6. After the loss to Butler, Purdue did not field a football team again until 1889.


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