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Purdue Has Been Around Longer Than the NCAA — Why Are They Called the Boilermakers?
The first Boilermaker mascot wasn’t as people-pleasing as Pete. The first Purdue mascot, the Boilermaker Special, was a ...
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Purdue History
The Purdue Alumni Association is formed. 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 ...