1979 Purdue Boilermakers football team

The 1979 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 1979 Big Ten Conference football season.

1979 Purdue Boilermakers football
Astro-Bluebonne Bowl champion
ConferenceBig Ten Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 10
APNo. 10
1979 record10–2 (7–1 Big Ten)
Head coach
MVPDave Young
Captains
Home stadiumRoss–Ade Stadium
1979 Big Ten Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 4 Ohio State $ 8 0 0  11 1 0
No. 10 Purdue 7 1 0  10 2 0
No. 18 Michigan 6 2 0  8 4 0
No. 19 Indiana 5 3 0  8 4 0
Iowa 4 4 0  5 6 0
Minnesota 3 5 1  4 6 1
Michigan State 3 5 0  5 6 0
Wisconsin 3 5 0  4 7 0
Illinois 1 6 1  2 8 1
Northwestern 0 9 0  1 10 0
  • $ Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendance
September 8WisconsinNo. 6W 41–2065,002
September 15at UCLA*No. 5L 21–3144,174
September 22No. 5 Notre Dame*No. 17
W 28–2270,567
September 29Oregon*No. 10
  • Ross–Ade Stadium
  • West Lafayette, IN
W 13–769,327
October 6at MinnesotaNo. 12L 14–3147,686
October 13IllinoisNo. 20
W 28–1469,413
October 20at Michigan StateNo. 16W 14–779,561
October 27NorthwesternNo. 16
  • Ross–Ade Stadium
  • West Lafayette, IN
W 20-1669,656
November 3at IowaNo. 15W 20–1459,940
November 10No. 10 MichiganNo. 14
  • Ross–Ade Stadium
  • West Lafayette, IN
W 24–2169,829
November 17at IndianaNo. 12W 37–2153,202
December 31vs. TennesseeNo. 12W 27–2240,542
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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Starters

Offense: se Burrell/Ray Smith, lt Feil, lg Schwan, c Quinn, rg Hall, rt McKenzie, te Young, qb Herrmann, fb Augustyniak, tb Jones/McCall, fl Harris, k Seibel

Defense: de Kingsbury, lt Clark, mg Loushin, rt Jackson, de Turner, lb Motts/Looney/Marks, cb W. smith/Kay, ss Seneff, fs Williams/McKinnie, p Hayes

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Roster

1979 Purdue Boilermakers football team roster
Players Coaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
RB 23 Mike Augustyniak Sr
QB 9 Mark Herrmann Jr
TE 80 Dave Young Jr
Defense
Pos.#NameClass
DE 85 Keena Turner Sr
Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Injured
  • Redshirt

Staff

Head Coach: Jim Young

Assistants: Bob Bockrath, Leon Burtnett, Mike Hankwitz, Randy Hart, Doug Redmann, Bob Spoo, Larry Thompson, Ed Zaunbrecher

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Game summaries

Oregon

  • Wally Jones 30 rushes, 156 yards [2]

Illinois

  • Mark Herrmann breaks Mike Phipps' school record for career passing yardage
  • David Young 114 Rec Yds, 2 TD[3]
  • Jimmy Smith 23 rushes, 125 yards [4]

at Michigan State

1 234Total
Purdue 7 070 14
Michigan St 0 007 7

Mark Herrmann broke the Big Ten career completion record set by Michigan State's Ed Smith in the previous year. [5]

at Iowa

Purdue at Iowa
1 234Total
Boilermakers 7 760 20
Hawkeyes 6 800 14

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Michigan

#10 Michigan at #14 Purdue
1 234Total
Michigan 0 0615 21
Purdue 7 0710 24

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at Indiana

  • Ben McCall 20 rushes, 148 yards[8]


vs. Tennessee (Bluebonnet Bowl)

1 234Total
Purdue 0 1476 27
Tennessee 0 0166 22


  • PUR: Mark Herrmann 21/39, 303 Yds, 3 TD
  • PUR: Bart Burell 8 Rec, 144 Yds, TD [9]

Statistics

Passing

PlayerCompAttYardsTDINT
Herrmann2033482,3771619

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Awards

All-Big Ten

  • Calvin Clark (1st)
  • Ken Loushin (1st)
  • Steve McKenzie (1st)
  • Dale Schwan (1st)
  • Keena Turner (1st)
  • Dave Young (1st)
  • Mark Herrmann (2nd)
  • Marcus Jackson (2nd)
  • Kevin Motts (2nd)
  • Pete Quinn (2nd)
  • Wayne Smith (2nd)

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References

  1. 2010 Purdue information guide
  2. 2020 Purdue Record Book. Retrieved 2020-Dec-27.
  3. Ocala Star-Banner. 1979 Oct 14. Retrieved 2018-Oct-28.
  4. 2020 Purdue Record Book. Retrieved 2021-Jan-01.
  5. Palm Beach Post. 1979 Oct 21.
  6. Palm Beach Post. 1979 Nov 4.
  7. "Boilermakers nip Michigan but it only helps Buckeyes." Eugene Register-Guard. 1979 Nov 11.
  8. 2020 Purdue Record Book. Retrieved 2020-Dec-27.
  9. Eugene Register-Guard. 1980 Jan 1.
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