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Jul 19, 2022
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I’m working on a full article about football and the long battle over withholding water during practice. In the meantime, here’s an image of several Purdue players in the mid-1930s, one of which hogs the ladle from the shared water bucket.

Drinking from a community bucket made sense for the 1936 Boilermakers. (1937 Purdue Debris)

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