Kansas at Missouri

Thursday, November 25, 1920

Missouri beat Kansas 16–⁠7. It was their 29th meeting; after it, Kansas led the series 9–⁠7–⁠3 in the games on file.

AwayKansas5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1920
7
HomeMissouri7–⁠1 in 1920
16

FinalHigh 40°F, low 30°F

In the newspapers

  • The Amarillo daily news. (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current's story: Missouri University Humbles Kansas ll6-7

    Amarillo daily news. (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, Texas, November 26, 1920, page 5

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    Missouri University Humbles Kansas ll6–⁠7 D. = rsnri nttd Press. COLUMBIA. No, Nov. 2i.-Nissour’ state University pumhlcd the Inivcr’ fiiy 81 Kansas H. 60 :. IN their annual gridiron struggle here today. aud br came the runners up IN the Missouri. Valley Conference race. The Kansas line was unable 10 with stand the assault 81 the Tiger bacS field. Lincoln. Fullhlght ana Lcwis going through fcr heavy gains. At the same time. Missouri was pro scntine drf.usc that was almost int prcvnahlc. repeatedly throwing the ems my hack for los “a 90 attempted line pluugcs This forced Kansas o. depend almo 4 entirely on an Aerial attack, and Will : the majority 81 the passes were si’ .cr,,fully completed the yardigc gain was generally small.

  • The Daily Kennebec journal's story: Football Results

    Daily Kennebec journal, Augusta, Me., November 26, 1920, page 5 (results column)

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    Football Results Holy Cross-Fordham. postponed; snow Pennsylvania IS: Cornell 0. Detroit 27; Dutgers 0. Penn. State O.; Pittsburgh 0. [. of Maryland “a: Johns-Hopkins 4 West Va. o; Washington and JEFF ferson 2S Washington State II: Nebraska 20 Missouri 16; Kansas 7. Notre Dame %; Michigan Aggies 0. Franklin and Marshall O.: Gettysburg 0. Bucknell 20; Dickinson s. Marquette II: Wabash z University of Virginia Ia: University of North Carolina o. Georgia Tech. 81: Alabama Poly technic O. University of Georgia 55: Clemson %. University of Alabama “a: Mississippi A. Sc NJ Z. Virginia N. [. “a; Virginia p I. T. University of Florida O; Ogiethorpe q. Centre College 103: Georgetown College 0.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Missouri 62% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

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 93 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Missouri 38, Kansas 21
2025Missouri 42, Kansas 31
2011Missouri 24, Kansas 10
2010Missouri 35, Kansas 7
2009Missouri 41, Kansas 39
2008Kansas 40, Missouri 37

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