1903 Purdue Football's Tragic End
The image above shows an RPPC mailed in 1909 from West Lafayette, IN, to Will Hubbard in Bosler, Wyoming. Mailed by a Purdue student named Ralph, the message asks how things are going in his friends’ new home and mentions that Purdue opens the 1909 season playing at UChicago. — www.footballarchaeology.com
Timothy P Brown investigates a photographic postcard mailed in 1909 with an image of a 1903 Purdue Boilermakers football game. The field displayed shows the partial Checkerboard lined field that only occurred in 1903.
