1970 Purdue Boilermakers football team

1970 Purdue Boilermakers football
Conference	Big Ten Conference
1970 record	4–6 (2–5 Big Ten)
Head coach	Bob DeMoss
MVP	Stan Brown
Captain	Donnie Green, Veno Paraskevas
Home stadium	Ross–Ade Stadium
Seasons

1970 Big Ten football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
#5/2 Ohio State †	7	–	0	–	0			9	–	1	–	0
#9/7 Michigan	6	–	1	–	0			9	–	1	–	0
Northwestern	6	–	1	–	0			6	–	4	–	0
Iowa	3	–	3	–	1			3	–	6	–	1
Wisconsin	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	5	–	1
Michigan State	3	–	4	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Minnesota	2	–	4	–	1			3	–	6	–	1
Purdue	2	–	5	–	0			4	–	6	–	0
Illinois	1	–	6	–	0			3	–	7	–	0
Indiana	1	–	6	–	0			1	–	9	–	0
† – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll / Coaches' Poll

The 1970 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. This was Purdue's first losing season since 1956.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 19	TCU*	Ross–Ade Stadium West Lafayette, IN	W 15–0	65,808
September 26	at No. 6 Notre Dame*	Notre Dame Stadium Notre Dame, IN (Shillelagh Trophy)	L 0–48	59,075
October 3	at No. 3 Stanford*	Stanford Stadium Stanford, CA	W 26–14	62,000
October 10	No. 7 Michigan	Ross–Ade Stadium West Lafayette, IN	L 0–29	69,021
October 17	at Iowa	Kinnick Stadium Iowa City, IA	W 24–3	56,973
October 24	at Northwestern	Dyche Stadium Evanston, IL	L 14–38	38,722
October 31	Illinois	Ross–Ade Stadium West Lafeyette, IN	L 21–23	67,747
November 7	at Michigan State	Spartan Stadium East Lansing, MI	L 14–24	61,113
November 14	Ohio State	Ross–Ade Stadium West Lafayette, IN	L 3–10	68,157
November 21	Indiana	Ross–Ade Stadium West Lafayette, IN	W 40–0	69,357
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Roster

1970 Purdue Boilermakers football team roster
Players			Coaches
Offense Pos. # Name Class QB 18 Danielson, GaryGary Danielson 3.0 !So QB Jones, JeffJeff Jones QB Piebes, ChuckChuck Piebes	Defense Pos. # Name Class LB 99 Paraskevas, VeroVero Paraskevas (C) 7.0 !Sr CB Potts, CharlieCharlie Potts	Special teams Pos. # Name Class P Lougheed, ScottScott Lougheed	Head coach Bob DeMoss Coordinators/assistant coaches Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured Redshirt

Offense: se Stingley, lt Paul DeNuccio, lg Huxhold, c Watkins, rg Luken, rt Green, te Bell/Cota, qb Danielson/Piebes, hb Armstrong, fb North, fl Brown, K Jones

Defense: le Handy/Tekavec, lt Maree, mg Molls/Bingham, rt Davis, re Hrivnak, lb Paravskevas, lb Teal, cb A. Carter, db McDaniel/Potts, s deGrandmaison, rip Cooper, p Lougheed

Staff

HC: Bob DeMoss

Ast: Bob Geiger, Allen Hager, C.W. Hewgley, Wayne Jones, Ned Maloney, Ron Meyer, Al Parker, Tom Roggeman, Dale Samuels

Season summary

TCU

Otis Armstrong 22 Rush, 100 Yds

Stanford

by Quarter 1 2 3 4 Total • Purdue 16 0 7 3 26 Stanford 0 0 7 7 14 Date: October 3 Location: Stanford Stadium, Stanford, CA Game attendance: 62,000 Scoring summary Q1 PUR Piebes 3 yard run (Jones kick) PUR 7–0 Q1 PUR Safety, Kauffman tackled in end zone PUR 9–0 Q1 PUR Brown 9 yard run (Jones kick) PUR 16–0 Q3 8:26 STAN Plunkett 1 yard run (Horowitz kick) PUR 16–6 Q3 PUR Brown 4 yard run (Jones kick) PUR 23–6 Q4 PUR Jones 33 yard field goal PUR 26–6 Q4 STAN Brown 44 yard pass from Plunkett (Horowitz kick) PUR 26–13

Purdue intercepted Stanford quarterback Jim Plunkett five times.