At Purdue, school spirit doesn’t just appear in chants and colors—it comes rolling in on wheels and swinging a hammer. The ...

The newspaper headline was, "Wabash Snowed Completely Under by the Burly Boiler Makers From Purdue." The university, known for its engineering, took its name-calling from others to heart. In 1940: ...

The Boilermaker Special VII is the official mascot of Purdue University and is run by the Purdue Reamer Club. While the newest rendition of "the world’s largest, fastest, heaviest, and loudest ...

The Boilermakers tried to beef up their secondary and by doing so may have lost a key player for the program's future.

In 1940: "The Boilermaker Special (the official Purdue mascot in the form of a locomotive mounted on an automobile chassis) is presented to the student body at a convocation ceremony." ...