The Kewanee High School athletic teams are nicknamed the "Boilermakers."
Purdue beat Miami by a score of 38-31 when the RedHawks failed score a touchdown in overtime after the Boilermaker’s Kory Sheets scored the game-winning touchdowns in their overtime possession.
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Miami missed pulling the upset when the Boilermaker’s Anthony Spencer blocked Nathan Parseghian's potential game-winning field goal attempt with 17 seconds left forcing the overtime.
In 1926, at the age of 17 he became an apprentice boilermaker at the Eveleigh Railway Workshops.