Purdue will be looking for an upset win against Notre Dame on Saturday but will be without one of the key components of it program – "The World’s Largest Drum." When the Purdue All-American Marching ...

After a six-year hiatus, Notre Dame and Purdue are slated to renew their longstanding football rivalry in South Bend on Saturday. The Indiana schools have played 84 games against each other since 1896 ...

For the first time in 42 years — since the Carter Administration — Purdue University's All-American Marching Band will perform Saturday at halftime without The Drum, which weighs a quarter of a ton ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In 1921, Purdue Bands director Paul "Spotts" Emrick had an idea – a very, very big idea. He wanted the marching band to have a bass drum bigger than any other band's in the ...

Purdue's iconic Big Bass Drum has been seen and heard at football games for the past 100 years, but it will be conspicuously absent for Saturday's game against Notre Dame. Gregg Doyel of the Indy Star ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – When the heated football rivalry between Purdue and the University of Chicago was at its boiling point in the 1920s, The Purdue "All-American" Marching Band's Big Bass Drum ...