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350:. Under Ames and Donnelly, Purdue would go 12–0 over the next two seasons. In 1891 while posting a 4–0 record, the team outscored its opponents 192–0. Then again in 1892, while posting an 8–0 record, the team outscored its opponents 320–24. Ames and Donnelly left the school in 1892.
266:, making him the first man to ever coach a known pro team. Heffelfinger once said that Donnelly was the only man that he had played against who "could slug you and at the same time keep his eyes on the ball". Donnelly also served as the second head football coach at the
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763:The Winged Foot - Google Books
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647:"Out in the Boondocks"
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586:"Five Hundred Reasons"
1007:Leonard Raffensperger
683:"In the Beginning..."
634:on November 26, 2010.
573:on November 26, 2010.
373:, on August 3, 1922.
1135:Ben "Sport" Donnelly
863:Ben "Sport" Donnelly
690:Purdue Football 2008
377:Head coaching record
284:Princeton University
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959:Ossie Solem
953:(1924–1931)
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991:Clem Crowe
770:October 1,
482:References
400:Conference
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1031:Ray Nagel
967:Irl Tubbs
403:Standing
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173:As player
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