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Purdue vs. Indiana Series Information
Series record: Purdue leads 69-38-6 (First meeting: 1891 / Last meeting: 2008)
Purdue points: 2,400
Indiana points: 1,477
Series record in West Lafayette: Purdue leads 36-20-4
at Ross-Ade Stadium: Purdue leads 27-13-2
Series record in Bloomington: Purdue leads 32-16-2
at Memorial Stadium: Purdue leads 15-9
Games decided by 3 points or less: Series tied 10-10
Games decided by 7 points or less: Indiana leads 22-20
Longest Purdue win streak: 10 (1948-57)
Longest Indiana win streak: 4 (1944-47)
Current streak: Purdue won the last meeting
Largest Purdue victory: 68-0 in 1892
Largest Indiana victory: 52-7 in 1988
Last Purdue home victory: 2008
Last Purdue road victory: 2005
Last Indiana home victory: 2007
Last Indiana road win: 1996

SOME GAME THEMES
The Boilermakers and Hoosiers hook up for the 85th meeting for the Old Oaken Bucket ... The 85th meeting for the traveling trophy will be played on the same date as the initial contest in 1925, Nov. 21 ... State pride is on the line for both squads, as neither team is eligible for bowl berths this season ... QB Joey Elliott, WR Keith Smith and DE Ryan Kerrigan look to end the regular season atop the Big Ten in a number of individual categories ... 21 Purdue seniors play their final game in the Old Gold and Black.

THIS DATE IN BOILERMAKER FOOTBALL HISTORY
The Boilermakers are 7-4-2 all-time on Nov. 21 with all 13 games played against Indiana ... The last time Purdue played on the date, in 1998, the Boilers posted a 52-7 victory over the Hoosiers in West Lafayette ... After Indiana initially opened the game with a 7-0 lead, Purdue ripped off 52 consecutive points to maintain possession of the Old Oaken Bucket in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1985-86 ... Quarterback Drew Brees, who finished the game 20 for 33 for 237 yards and four touchdowns, set single season Big Ten records for attempts (still standing), completions (still standing) and passing yards (since broken) in the game ... Backup QB David Edgerton attempted only four passes in the contest, but threw a pair of scoring strikes among his three completions ... The first-ever game played for the Old Oaken Bucket occurred on this date in 1925, with the contest ending in a 0-0 stalemate to provide the trophy with an I-P starting link that is still attached to the handle.

A REAL RARITY
The 2009 Boilermakers have an opportunity to pull off a feat never accomplished in 121 previous years of football in West Lafayette - a 1,000-yard rusher, a 3,000-yard passer and a 1,000-yard receiver. Junior wide receiver Keith Smith got the ball rolling last weekend by recording only the 12th 1,000-yard receiving season in school history. Meanwhile, sophomore running back Ralph Bolden has rushed for 931 yards this year, 69 away from the ninth 1,000-yard season in school history, and fifth-year senior quarterback Joey Elliott has thrown for 2,821 yards to leave him just 179 markers shy of just the 11th 3,000-yard passing season in Boilermaker history. The closest Purdue has come to pulling off the rare triple-quadruple came in 2000 when Drew Brees passed for 3,668 yards, Vinny Sutherland finished with 1,014 yards receiving and running back Montrell Lowe fell two yards shy of the 1,000-yard barrier at 998 for the year. The 1,000/3,000/1,000 feat has been only accomplished 39 times in FBS history heading into the 2009 season.
A First-Ever Triple-Quadruple? 1,000-yard rusher, 3,000-yard passer and a 1,000-yard receiver
1,000-yard rusher - Ralph Bolden (931 yards) - Needs 69 yards rushing against IU
3,000-yard passer - Joey Elliott (2,821 yards) - Needs 179 yards passing against IU
1,000-yard receiver - Keith Smith (1,015) - Already there

THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET
One of the oldest and most prestigious football trophies in the nation, the Old Oaken Bucket goes annually to the winner of the Purdue-Indiana football battle. While the presentation of the trophy dates 84 years, the bucket itself is more than 100 years old. The bucket was found, in a bad state of repair and covered with moss and mold, on the old Bruner farm between Kent and Hanover in southern Indiana, after the Chicago alumni groups of both Purdue and Indiana enthusiastically decided in 1925 that a traditional trophy for the winner of the gridiron clash would be appropriate. Russell Gray of Purdue and Dr. Clarence Jones of Indiana were given the task of finding a suitable trophy. They recommended that "an old oaken bucket would be a most typical trophy from this state and should be taken from a well somewhere in Indiana." Purdue's Fritz Ernst and Whiley J. Huddle of Indiana found the fabled bucket and it is said that Confederate General Morgan's command used it during an incursion into Indiana during the Civil War. It has had an equally storied history since 1925, several times having been kidnapped by partisans from both schools - a couple of times missing so long that it was given up as lost, only to turn up mysteriously just before or after the annual game. The time-worn bucket was presented as a prize by the late George Ade, distinguished humorist from Purdue, and the late Harry Kurrie, then president of the Monon Railroad, representing Indiana. The first game ended in a 0-0 tie, resulting in the "I-P" link attached to the bucket. Since then, there have been 53 "P" links, 26 "I" links and two additional "I-P" links attached to the chain. Purdue won the 2008 meeting 62-10 in West Lafayette.

BUCKET FACTS
To the day, Nov. 21 will mark the 85th time Purdue and Indiana have squared off for the Old Oaken Bucket ... First game played for the Old Oaken Bucket was in 1925. That game ended in a 0-0 tie ... Purdue leads the all-time series 69-36-6 (since 1891) and is 55-26-3 in Old Oaken Bucket games ... Purdue is 28-13-1 in Bucket Games in Bloomington ... Purdue has a slightly better winning percentage in Bucket Games played in Bloomington than in West Lafayette (28-13-1, .679 at Indiana, 27-13-2, .667 at home) ... Purdue has won 26 games against Indiana by 21 or more points. Indiana has done the same five times ... The Bucket has changed hands 30 times in the 84 years since the two schools have played for the trophy ... In 1943, it took a valiant goal-line stop by the Boilermaker defense in the fourth quarter to put away an Indiana team 7-0 and preserve the last undefeated season in either school's history (9-0). The 1943 Hoosiers went 4-4-2 that season. That 1943 game snapped a three-game winning streak by IU and was Purdue's lone victory in the series from 1940-47 ... Purdue's two winningest coaches, Joe Tiller and Jack Mollenkopf, went a combined 21-4-1 against Indiana ... The top two rushing performances in Purdue history have come against Indiana: Otis Armstrong ran for a school-record 276 yards against the Hoosiers in 1972 and Mike Alstott rumbled for 264 yards in 1995. It was the final game in a Purdue uniform for both players ... Dale Samuels (3-0), Len Dawson (3-0), Bernie Allen (2-0), Bob Griese (3-0), Jim Everett (2-0), Billy Dicken (1-0) and Drew Brees (3-0) never lost a Bucket Game as a starting quarterback ... Last year Purdue scored on its first 10 possessions of the game and did not punt in a 62-10 win in Joe Tiller's final game. The 52-point margin of victory tied for the largest in Ross-Ade Stadium history ... In 2004 Kyle Orton tied the school record with six touchdown passes in the Bucket Game. Orton threw for 522 yards in his final Bucket Game, the most by any quarterback in Bucket history and tied for the second-most in Purdue history (also Drew Brees vs. Minnesota in 1998) ... Purdue's longest unbeaten streak in the Bucket Series was 1948-61 when the Boilers went 13-0-1. Indiana's longest streak came between 1916 and 1923 when the Hoosiers went 4-0-2.

LAST WEEK - MICHIGAN STATE SNIDBITS
Keith Smith's 15 catches for 152 yards pushed him past the 1,000 yard mark for the season. Smith's effort is the 12th such 1,000-yard effort in school history and he is the 11th player to do so ... Smith's 152 yards through the air marked his sixth 100-yard receiving game of the season, which stands along as the second-most in a single season in Purdue history. The record of seven 100-yard games is shared by Steve Griffin (1984) and John Standeford (2002) ... Smith's 15 receptions also improved his total to 86 for the season, moving him into a tie with Taylor Stubblefield (2003) for sixth place on Purdue's single-season chart ... Smith finished the game with 1,501-career receiving yards, moving past Reggie Arnold (1974-77) for 20th place in program annals ... Carson Wiggs connected on three field goals against Michigan State, improving his total to 13 for the season to tie Jonathan Briggs (1987) for 10th on Purdue's single-season list ... Wiggs also increased his career field goal total to 21, which kept him in seventh place on Purdue's career list, but moved him to within one field goal of tying Tim Clark (1981-83), Joe O'Leary (1991-92) and Brad Bobich (1992-95) for sixth in school history ... Purdue's 524 total yards on the afternoon were its second-highest total of the season, and most since accumulating 535 in the season-opening victory over Toledo ... Purdue's 17-play touchdown drive in the third quarter was the longest in terms of number so plays (17) and time of possession (8:32) this season ... The Boilermakers ran a season-high 92 plays against Michigan State ... Purdue also picked up a season-best 28 first downs ... Keith Smith extended his streak to 23 consecutive games with a reception in the first quarter ... Smith's 15 receptions were also a career high, eclipsing the mark of 12 he set on two occasions (last in Purdue's victory over Ohio State on Oct. 17) ... Joey Elliott, who finished the contest 39-for-55 for 373 yards and two touchdowns, completed his first nine consecutive pass attempts in the games ... Elliott's 39 completions, 55 attempts and 373 yards on the afternoon all marked career highs ... Elliott eclipsed the 300-yard passing barrier for a second consecutive and for the third time this season (also 313 vs. Northwestern and 367 at Michigan) ... Cortez Smith caught a career-high eight passes for 52 yards ... Dan Dierking hauled in the longest pass of his career in the fourth quarter (34 yards). Dierking finished with a career-best 62 receiving yards ... Kyle Adams equaled his career high with five receptions on the afternoon ... Jason Werner forced his second fumble of the season and Torri Williams picked it up for his second recovery of the year late in the first quarter ... David Pender broke up a pass in the second quarter to improve his career total to 32 and move him into a tie for third all-time at Purdue with Billy Kay (1977-80) ... Ryan Kerrigan saw two individual streaks snapped on Saturday. He entered the contest with a string of five-consecutive games with at least half a sack and nine-straight contests with at least a half of a tackle for loss, but did not record either against Michigan State.

GHOSTBUSTERS
The Boilermakers slew a couple of pesky program ghosts this season - Purdue ended a 19-game losing streak to ranked opponents with a 26-18 win over No. 7 Ohio State at Ross-Ade Stadium on Oct. 17 ... The Boilers then snapped an 11-game losing streak on the road with a 38-36 victory at Michigan, and in doing so ended 43 years of frustration and a 17-game losing streak in Ann Arbor. Prior to the two-point victory over the Wolverines on Nov. 7, Purdue's last win in Michigan Stadium came in 1966.

SENIOR SALUTE
Twenty-one Boilermakers will play their final game in the Old Gold and Black on Nov. 21. Purdue University, the athletics department and the football program wishes the best of luck to each of them in their future endeavors. They are wide receiver Royce Adams, quarterback Chris Bennett, defensive end Keyon Brown, quarterback Joey Elliott, fullback Frank Halliburton, offensive guard Eric Hedstrom, long snapper Andy Huffman, offensive tackle Zach Jones, cornerback Brandon King, safety Dwight Mclean, defensive tackle Mike Neal, cornerback David Pender, offensive guard Zach Reckman, fullback Jarrod Shaw, punter-kicker Chris Summers, running back Jaycen Taylor, wide receiver Aaron Valentin, linebacker Jason Werner, safety Torri Williams, wide receiver Adam Wolf and center Jared Zwilling. Purdue also has three senior managers: Ross Adang, Ben Palmer and Deanna Pike.

BAGMAN
Ryan Kerrigan has been a perpetual pain to opposing quarterbacks this season. His 11 sacks this season leads the Big Ten and are tied for eighth nationally. The figure is tied for the fifth-most in a single year in school history (also Jim Schwantz, 1989 and Akin Atodele, 1999) and just four away from equaling Rosevelt Colvin's school record of 15 established in 1998. Kerrigan's 19 career sacks are the seventh-most at Purdue ... Along with sacks come tackles for loss, and Kerrigan has been tearing up that statistical category as well. With 16.5 stops behind the line this season, Kerrigan is tied for third in the conference and tied for 13th nationally. He needs one more TFL to move into the single season top 15 in school history. Career-wise, Kerrigan's 29 all-time TFLs are tied for the 14th-most at Purdue (also Marcus Jackson, 1976-79).

BEST WISHES, JOE
The Old Oaken Bucket game will mark the end of a Purdue broadcasting era as Joe McConnell will call his final radio game as the Boilers' play-by-play guy. After 15 seasons in Boilermaker radio booth, McConnell is hanging up the headphones and heading for retirement. Spanning more than four decades, his career has included stints with the Chicago Bears, Chicago White Sox, Indianapolis Cots and Indiana Pacers.

FOUR OR FEWER
The Boilermakers have been pretty successful on third down this season when needing to gain four or fewer yards. At four of less, Purdue is moving the sticks at a 72 percent success rate (41-57), at three or less the percentage improves to 74 (28-38) and with two or fewer yards on third down the Boilers are 21 of 26 for an 81 percent success rate of getting a first down.

RANKING NOTES
Joey Elliott heads into Saturday's game against Michigan State ranked first in the Big Ten in total offense (281.0) and passing average (256.5) ... The senior signal caller is 14th nationally in total offense ... Boiler running back Ralph Bolden is third in the Big Ten and 45th nationally in rushing average (84.6) and fourth in the Big Ten and 85th nationally in all-purpose yardage (112.0) ... Wide receiver Keith Smith leads the Big Ten and seventh nationally in receptions per game (7.8), and his 92.3 receiving yards per game average is also leads the conference and is 16th among all FBS players ... Ryan Kerrigan leads the Big Ten and is tied for eighth among FBS players in sacks per game at 1.0. His 1.5 TFLs per game average is tied for 13th nationally and is tied for third among conference defenders ... Cornerback David Pender is the conference's leading pass defender with an average of 1.2 PBUs per game.

NOT YOUR AVERAGE SMITH
Purdue wide receiver Keith Smith is making a name for himself this season. First in the Big Ten in receptions (7.8) and receiving yards (92.3) per game, the junior posted his sixth 100-yard receiving game of the season against Michigan State on Nov. 14 (also vs. Toledo, Notre Dame, Northwestern, at Minnesota and Ohio State) and tied the school record for consecutive 100-yard games with his fourth straight against the Buckeyes (12-125) on Oct. 17. Smith's six games of 100-plus is the third such effort in school history and stands alone for second in the record book. The season record for 100-yard games is seven which is shared by Steve Griffin (1984) and John Standeford (2002).
Smith's Game-By-Game Receiving Numbers
Toledo - 8-117, TD
Oregon - 4-68 (also threw a touchdown pass)
Northern Illinois - 5-37
Notre Dame - 11-136, TD
Northwestern - 7-101, TD
Minnesota - 7-126, TD
Ohio State - 12-125
Illinois - 5-61
Wisconsin - 1-8
Michigan - 11-84
Michigan State - 15-152, TD (Both receptions and yardage are career highs)

I CAN SEE FOR YARDS AND YARDS
With 152 yards receiving against Michigan State, Keith Smith became just the 11th player in school history to surpass the 1,000 yard barrier in a single season (John Standeford did it twice to make 12 total 1,000-yard seasons). Standing at 1,015 yards for the season and 10th all-time for a single season, Smith has a legitimate shot at moving up in annals of Purdue. A look at the former Boilers that Smith has a shot at moving past in Purdue's final game of the season at Indiana:
2 - Chris Daniels (1999) - 1,236 (+221)
3 - Brian Alford (1997) - 1,228 (+213)
4 - John Standeford (2003) - 1,150 (+135)
5 - Rodney Carter (1985) - 1,099 (+84)
6 - Taylor Stubblefield (2004) - 1,095 (+80)
7 - Dorien Bryant (2006) - 1,068 (+53)
8 - Steve Griffin (1984) - 1,060 (+45)
9 - Brian Alford (1996) - 1,057 (+42)
10 - Keith Smith (2009) - 1,015

BACK-TO-BACK 1,000-YARD RUSHERS
Ralph Bolden needs 69 yards rushing to eclipse the 1,000-yard mark for the season. Should the sophomore running back achieve the milestone he would give Purdue back-to-back 1,000-yard season rushers for the first time since Mike Alstott rumbled for 1,188 yards in 1994 and 1,436 yards in 1995. Current Miami Dolphin Kory Sheets rushed for 1,131 yards last season.

GOING FOR 3,000
As noted above, quarterback Joey Elliott is 179 yards shy of 3,000 for the year. Should the fifth-year senior reach the mark, he would become only the fourth first-year starter to do so at Purdue. Billy Dicken threw for 3,136 yards in his only season at the helm (1997), Drew Brees passed for a then-school record 3,983 yards in his first season as the starter in 1998 and Curtis Painter snapped Brees' mark by two yards with 3,985 markers in his initial season of 2006.

HERE'S TO GOOD HEALTH
The Boilermakers have for the most part avoided the injury bug this season. Save for a knee injury to Royce Adams against Northwestern and a one-game suspension to Zach Reckman, the offensive unit has seen nearly the same starting unit each week. On the defensive side of the ball, Purdue has lined up the same 11 players in seven consecutive games and nine times out 11 game this year. A deep thigh bruise to Brandon King after the Toledo game cause the senior cornerback to miss a pair of games and alter the lineup the only time this season.

PURDUE VS. INDIANA - THE LAST TIME OUT
The Boilermakers scored on their first 10 possessions and did not punt to send head coach Joe Tiller off to retirement with a 62-10 win in Ross-Ade Stadium ... The Boilermakers outgained the Hoosiers 596-214 in the contests and recorded 35 first downs to IU's 13 ... Quarterback Curtis Painter capped off his Boilermaker career by throwing for 448 yards and five touchdowns in his final game in the Old Gold and Black ... Running back Kory Sheets tied the season record for touchdowns (16) after scoring three times in the game ... Tiller finished his Purdue career 10-2 against the Hoosiers.

BIGFOOT
Not the mythical creature from the Pacific Northwest, but rather the right foot of Purdue kicker Carson Wiggs. The sophomore booted the longest field goal in school history (59 yards) as time expired in the first half of the Boilermakers' season opener against Toledo. Wiggs' kick equaled the Ross-Ade Stadium record and tied for the seventh-longest in Big Ten history. Eleven weeks into the season, it remains the longest field goal in the nation among FBS kickers.

A NOSE FOR THE BALL
Senior cornerback David Pender has a knack for knocking down the opposition's passing attack. With a PBU against Michigan State on Nov. 14, Pender increased his career total 32, a figure that ties him with Billy Kay for third in school history. Pender needs three more PBUs in his final collegiate to tie Steve Jackson (35 from 1987-90) for the top spot in the Purdue record book. His 12 PBUs this season leads the Big Ten.

                   CLAUSEN PROVES BIG IN IRISH WIN 24-21

    As far as the Boilers night went, they too had their opportunities and like their state Big Ten counter-parts could of, should of walked out of the packed  Ross Aide Stadium with a win.

    Instead Irish quarterback Jimmy Clausen re-entered the game with Notre Dame trailing 21-17 in the final stanza and promptly drove the Irish down the field with a 22 yards pass to Cincinnati Elder grad Kyle Rudolph then after a sack Clausen hit Olmsted Falls resident Robby Parris with a fifteen yard pass. A 17 yard pass to all-around standout to Pope John Paul II graduate Golden Tate left the ball at the Boilers four yard line.

    Following three unsuccesful attempts to break the goal line Clausen once again found Rudolph for the winner.

     Notre Dame played without their top receiver Michael Floyd out for the season and Armando Allen, the leading rusher with a ankle injury.

    But before that, the Boilers after a crowd pleasing time out that featured former head coach Joe Tiller, stepped up their game and fought back from a 17-7 defecit to narrow the gap to 17-14 from a Joey Elliott pass to Keith Smith with a 3 yards pass.

     The Boilers stopped the Irish in the final six minutes and capatilized on a 38 yard reception to Jaycen Taylor on a pass from Elliott.

    Fifth year senior and former Evansville Harrison graduate Joey Elliott again gave great effort by completing 22 of 38 passes for 289 yards that saw Smith capturing 11 passes for 136 yards and Kyle Adams catching four passes for 26 yards while Ralph Bolden led the Boilers on the ground with 67 yards.

     The Irish were led by Robert Hughes, a Chicago Hubbard grad with 68 yards rushing on 15 carries while Golden Tate caught five passes for 57 yards while Clausen completed 15 passes out of 26 attempts for 171 yards.

     59,082 was the attendance for the evening in Ross-Aide.