Kansas at Missouri

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  Tulsa daily world, Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.], November 30, 1917, page 8

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  KANSAS EASILY WINS OVER MISSOURI TIGER Collins Place Kicks Goal in First Period; Final Score 81 to 3. COLUMBIA. Nov. 29.-SmashinS its way thru the line almost at will, the University of Kansas football team todav captured the annual Thanksgiving game with the University of Missouri bv a score Of % to 3. Missouri at no time was dangerous opponent for the Lawrence eleven. Pringle. Kansas. made two of the four touchdowns which the Lawrence team piled up. The first Kansas touchdown came in the early minutes of play. when Ruble by a 23-yard run carried the ball across the Missouri goal line. linborg kicked goal In the third quarter Pringle went over for a touchdown on l2-yard dash and Iinborg kicked goal. \ few min uteS later Pringle again took the ball across. but Linborg failed to kick goal. In the final quarter, thru conslstent gains, Kansas worked the ball To Missouri’s five-yard line and Nell son took II over, and Linborg kicked his third goal Missouris three points were made soon after the game started when Col lins sent n place kick across the bars from the 15-yard line. Altho Missouri scored first, II was apparent after the end OF the first quarter that the Columbia team was outclaSsed The Missouri eleven showed 4 lack of sustained attacking power, while the opposite was true of the Kansas team.

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  Arizona republican, Arizona, November 30, 1917, page 7

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  MISSOURI SHOWN BY KANSAS TEAM COLUMBIA, Mo-, Nov. 29.-Smash- ing it’s way through the line almost at will, the University of Kansas football team today captured the an- nual Thanksgiving day game with the University of Missouri by s score of 27 to 3. Missouri at no time was dangerous opponent for the Lawrence eleven. Although Missouri scored first. if was apparent after the first quarter that the Columbia team was out classed. The Missouri eleven showed lack of sustained attacking power while the opposite was true of the Kansas team

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Officially, Missouri leads 59–⁠54–⁠9 by Missouri’s count and 58–⁠55–⁠9 by Kansas’s (the 1960 game is disputed); as played, 56–⁠48–⁠8 in the 112 games on file; the official count covers all 122 meetings, counting the 95 since this game.