where are the purdue boilermakers from

The Purdue Boilermakers are from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Quick Scoop

The nickname “Boilermakers” became associated with Purdue in the early 1890s after newspaper coverage of a football win over Wabash College. The name stuck, and today it refers to Purdue’s athletic teams and often its students and alumni too.

If you want, I can also give you the short origin story of the nickname.