CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Football returns to Wrigley Field for the second time in 50 years this weekend.
Saturday's game between the Northwestern Wildcats and Purdue Boilermakers is the second football game to take place at the Friendly Confines, since the Chicago Bears left in 1970.
It will be played 11 years to the day after the last Northwestern game at Wrigley Field.
The Wildcats lost to the Illinois Fighting Illini in November 2010, in a game that was notorious, due to the fact that all plays ran in the same direction - towards the end zone in the third base dugout. The other end zone was a foot away from the wall in right field. Illinois wallopped Northwestern 48-27.
That was all pre-renovation and back then, the ballpark was draped in pictures of Northwestern players and the marque was painted purple.
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The Wrigley rebuild in the middle of the last decade changed the dimensions of the field, allowing for football, but both teams will share the same sideline.
The Wildcats were supposed to play Wisconsin at Wrigley Field last year, but that game was moved to Ryan Field in Evanston, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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