The 1929 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented

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in the 1929 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach James Phelan, the Boilermakers compiled an undefeated 8–0 record (5–0 Big Ten) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 187 to 44.

Schedule

Players

* Horace Buttner * Paul Calvert *

Elbert Caraway Elbert Francis "Ebb" Caraway (January 1, 1905 – September 8, 1975) was an American football and baseball player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Massachusetts State College, now the University of Massachusetts Amherst, from 19 ...

* J. M. Christman * Richard Chubb * Harold Cloud * Al Deutch * Livy Eward * William Fulton *

Glen Harmeson Glen W. Harmeson (March 9, 1908 – June 23, 1983) was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Lehigh University (1934–1941), Wabash College (19 ...

* Harry Huntsinger * Howard Kissell * William Mackle * Charles Miller * E. A. Moon * Lew Pope * James Purvis * Eddie Risk * Les Sherbeck *

Elmer Sleight Elmer Noble "Red" Sleight (1907 - August 9, 1978) was an All-American football player. Sleight was born in 1907 in Morris, Illinois, and attended Morris High School. He played at the tackle position for the Purdue University Boilermakers from ...

* Don Trimble * George VanBibber *

Sam Voinoff Samuel Voinoff (February 22, 1907 – November 17, 1989) was an American college football and golf coach at Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus ...

Ralph Welch W. Ralph "Pest" Welch (January 13, 1907 – September 15, 1974) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Washington from 1942 to 1947, compiling a record of 27–20–3. Welch led his 1943 Wash ...

* John White * Bill Woerner *

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Coaches and administrators

* Head coach: James Phelan * Assistant coaches:

References

{{Big Ten Conference football champions Purdue Purdue Boilermakers football seasons Big Ten Conference football champion seasons College football undefeated seasons

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