Farsheed Taschayyodi is brushing up on his Garfield football history. “City of Champions, I’m reading the book right now,” Taschayyodi said, referring to the definitive book on Boilermaker ...

Purdue University's mascot, the Boilermakers, originated from a newspaper taunt in 1891 after a football victory against Wabash College. The nickname "Boilermakers" was intended to be an insult ...