Post by bignnastyblue on Jan 21, 2012 12:35:13 GMT -5
Here ya go IH...
Origin of 'Boilermakers' nicknameThe nickname 'Boilermakers' goes back to 1891 when the Purdue football team defeated nearby rival Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana 44–0. An account of the game in the Crawfordsville Daily Argus News of October 26, 1891 was headlined, "Slaughter of Innocents: Wabash Snowed Completely Under by the Burly Boiler Makers from Purdue." Engineering education in the 1890s at Purdue meant hands-on work in the forge room, where students heated and molded metal, just like the "blacksmiths" and "boilermakers" the football team was called after defeating opponents. The local Purdue press picked up on the name, with a notice in the November 1, 1891 Lafayette Sunday Times, "As everyone knows, Purdue went down to Wabash last Saturday and defeated their eleven. The Crawfordsville papers have not yet gotten over it. The only recourse they have is to claim that we beat their 'scientific' men by brute force. Our players are characterized as 'coal heavers,' 'boiler makers' and 'stevedores.'" (wikipedia) 2011
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I ain't never been nuttin' but bignnastyblue baby. I ain't one of those tubby lovers that have to get another ID so they won't catch hell...I don't have to have an alias...I stand behind the shit I say...right or wrong...ask anybody...lol.
