From the Purdue official website: "Fall of 1891, Purdue had acquired a working railroad engine to mount in a newly established locomotive laboratory. It was one more step in the development of Purdue as one of the world's leaders in engineering teaching and research. For athletic adversaries and their boosters, this specialty in engineering education - and the other concentration at the founding of the institution, agriculture - served as fodder for name-calling. Over the years, Purdue teams had been called grangers, pumpkin-shuckers, railsplitters, cornfield sailors, blacksmiths, foundry hands and, finally, boilermakers. That last one stuck.
And tonight they're "Going to the Sweet Sixteen". Thanks for beating Texas A&M Boilermakers....it was a game and a half to watch! Oh, and by the way, for the C's, this is where your Uncle Dave graduated from college....with a degree in engineering, of course!
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