conflicted loyalties

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In honor of Big Ten football season starting anew:

"I actually applied for and was accepted at MIT, which had a wonderful engineering reputation," Armstrong says. "But during my junior year, I also became aware of some other engineering schools that had very good reputations, including Purdue. And you know, being an Ohio resident when, in my junior year, Purdue beat Ohio State at Ohio State, my interest grew."
Ohio State was ranked number one in the nation when the Boilermakers arrived at Columbus on October 20, 1945. The Buckeyes had won twelve straight games going back to the previous season and had not been scored on that fall. The team had just been featured in Life magazine. The Armed Services Radio Network broadcast the game around the world.
Purdue-led by Ed Cody, Bill Canfield, and seventeen-year-old freshman quarterback Bob DeMoss-won that game thirty-five to thirteen before 73,585 stunned Buckeye fans. DeMoss threw three touchdown passes. Purdue scored twenty-two points in the first half before Ohio State made a first down.
It is considered to be among the greatest days in Purdue football history. If that game helped bring Neil Armstrong to Purdue, it might go down as the greatest Boilermaker victory of them all.

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