"[citation needed] The statue is located adjacent to Ross Ade Stadium on the Purdue University-West Lafayette campus's intercollegiate sports complex.

[1] During the 2008 football season, an unofficial jersey bearing the number 90 of the team's co-captain Ryan Baker was worn by the statue during each home game.

The tradition was started by Purdue Army ROTC Cadet Tommy Woroszylo (BSME, 2010).

Woroszylo passed on the tradition to the campus Army ROTC program.

The honor of hanging the jersey for each home game has been carried out by the following Boilermakers: The jersey tradition has been nationally recognized: it was shown live on ESPN, written about in the Lafayette Journal & Courier, and shown during the 2010 season of NBC's Parks and Recreation.