Purdue Boilermakers football

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Purdue Boilermakers Football

Head Coach

Joe Tiller

11th Year, 67-43

Home Stadium

Ross-Ade Stadium

Capacity 62,500 - Bermuda Grass

Conference

Big Ten

First Year

1887

Athletic Director

Morgan Burke

Website

PurdueSports.com

Team Records

All-time Record

558-473-48 (.517)

Postseason
Bowl Record

7-7

Awards

Wire National Titles

Heisman Winners

All-Americans

Pageantry

Colors

Old Gold and Black

Fight song

Hail Purdue

Mascot

Boilermaker Special

Marching Band

Purdue All-American Marching Band

Major Rivals

Illinois Figting Illini
Indiana Hoosiers
Notre Dame Fighting Irish

The Purdue Boilermakers are a college football program that competes in NCAA Division I-A and the Big Ten Conference.

1 Coaching Staff
- 1.1 Position Coaches
- 1.2 Support Staff
2 Stadium
3 Uniforms
4 All-Time Win/Loss/Tie Record as of 2006
5 Big Ten Championships
6 Bowl Games
7 Trophy Games
8 Individual Award Winners
9 College Football Hall of Famers
- 9.1 Players
- 9.2 Coaches
10 Pro Football Hall of Famers
11 Current NFL Players
12 Other Famous Players
13 Related Pages
14 External links
15 References

[edit] Coaching Staff

[edit] Position Coaches

Joe Tiller - Head Coach
Mark Hagen - Assistant Head Coach, Special Teams Coordinator, Linebackers Coach
Bill Legg - Co-Offensive Coordinator, Centers and Guards Coach
Brock Spack - Defensive Coordinator, Safeties Coach
Ed Zaunbrecher - Co-Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks Coach
Lou Anarumo - Defensive Backs Coach
John McDonell - Offensive Tackles and Tight Ends Coach
Brian Rock - Wide Receivers Coach
Joel Thomas - Running Backs Coach
Terrell Williams - Defensive Line Coach

[edit] Support Staff

Don Coller - Director of Football Operations
Jim Lathrop - Director of Strength and Conditioning
Kevin Nesfield - Graduate Assistant
Mike Jacobs - Graduate Assistant

[edit] Stadium

Ross-Ade Stadium

[edit] Uniforms

Purdue's colors are old gold and black. So too are their uniforms. Their home uniforms are black with white numerals and old gold outline. On the sleve is the player's number in white, outlined in old gold, along with two outter old gold stripes and a black one inside at the end of the sleeve. The pants are old gold with two black strpies along both sides. The away uniform is white with black numerals and old gold outline. Both home and away jerseys sport the Purdue slant "P" logo in the center front of the collar, surrounded by a patch of black fabric. The away pants are black with two old gold stripes. Since the arrival of Joe Tiller in 1997, Purdue players have not worn names on the backs of their jerseys. The helmet is old gold with the Purdue "P" in black with a white outline on both sides. There are three stripes down the middle; two outer black ones, and one think inner white one. The facemask is black. Before Tiller, the team wore uniforms that sported the school's name across the front of the Jersey, and the old gold color was more pronounced, with almost a copper hue. In Tiller's first season, the helmet color was lightened substantially, as was the gold used on the rest of the uniform. Purdue's pride sticker (given out for good performances) was the Purdue logo (locamotive). This was changed in 2006 to a sledgehammer with the slant "P" in the hammer's head (like the one wielded by mascot Purdue Pete). In the 2006 game against the Indiana State Sycamores, Purdue wore a throwback uniform from 1966, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the school's first Rose Bowl team. It featured a white jersey with two outter black stripes on the shoulder and one inner gold stripe. The numerals were black with no outline. They wore gold pants without stripes, and the helmets were old gold with black numbers and one black stripe down the middle, kind of like Alabama's helmet. In 2002, Purdue changed from its black home jersey to an old gold jersey. The old gold uniforms had white numerals and black outline for home games, and white uniforms with old gold numbers and back outline for away games. Some complained that the numerals on the jersey were too hard to see, so in 2003 they changed to an old gold jersey with black numerals outlined in white, and white pants with two black stripes down the sides. After losing their opening game at home to Bowling Green, Tiller and the team decided to dump the gold jerseys and go back to the black uniforms. After they changed back to the black uniforms, the team came out to Back in Black by AC/DC for every home game in 2003. Since then, Purdue has stayed with the black uniforms. In one game against Wisconsin in 2006, the Boilermakers wore the black jersey with black pants. They hadn't sported an all-black look at home since the last game of the season in 1996 against Indiana.