Northwestern at Missouri
Saturday, November 9, 1895 Share
Missouri beat Northwestern 22–18. It was their first meeting; after it, Missouri led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 46°F, low 34°F, 0.15 in. of rain
In the newspapers

The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, November 11, 1895, page 1
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Methodists from Nebraska Put Up a Strong Game, But Kansas Won By a Score of Thirty-two to Six MISSOURI ALL RIGHT. The Tigers Win the Game With Northwestern. Other Foot Ball Games General Sporting News. The hardest foot ball game Of the season for the Kansas university team was played at Kansas City Saturday after noon, when the jay Hawkers met the strong team from Doane college OF Crete, Nebraska The Kansas boys were trids too con hdens of winning aud through couple OF costly errors, principally by Games, the DoaEe boys carried the ball over the Kansas goal line. This occurred two aud one half minutes after the game was called The game began at $40 p. N. with a kickoff by Doaue from the south side of the Exposition park field Including time taken out for hurt players, it took IS minutes for Kansas to come to her senses. Then Games was showed through a hole made by shorty HamuI and finally scored u touchdown. The score was now event TO 8. From this part of the first half, It was simply case Of even resistance, no scor- Ing being done. The half ended az 4:05. In the second half Kansas scored i’ve touchdowns. During this half two of Doaue’s pIavers were injured and had to be taken off the field The Methodists have a very peculiar way Of tackling which makes them liza Bile TO head injury. The tackle Is very effective, but costly. Inc DOaue men average about $50 pounds, and Kansas about 1875 pounds. The dnal score was 32–6. Following Is the Iiue-ur-
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 67% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Northwestern–Missouri gameMissouri leads 5–4 in nine meetings, counting the eight since this game.
| 2008 | Missouri 30, Northwestern 23 | Alamo Bowl |
| 1987 | Missouri 28, Northwestern 3 | |
| 1985 | Northwestern 27, Missouri 23 | |
| 1967 | Missouri 13, Northwestern 6 | |
| 1963 | Northwestern 23, Missouri 12 | |
| 1932 | Northwestern 27, Missouri 0 |
Around this game
Northwestern
- Next gamevs. ChicagoNov. 16, 1895
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1895
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records
Missouri
- Next gameat IllinoisOct. 17, 1896
- SeasonMissouri in 1895
- ProgramMissouri history and records

