Missouri at Kansas

Saturday, November 23, 1929

Missouri beat Kansas 7–⁠0. It was their 38th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 12–⁠12–⁠4 in the games on file.

AwayMissouri5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1929
7
HomeKansas4–⁠4 in 1929
0

FinalHigh 34°F, low 23°F

In the newspapers

  • The Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current's story: MISSOURI WIN HARD GAINED Effective AeariaI Attack Features Clash With Kansas J~ayhawkers

    Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, November 24, 1929, page 1

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    MISSOURI WIN HARD GAINED Effective AeariaI Attack Features Clash With Kansas J~ayhawkers LAWRENCE, Kas., Nov. z5=P- The Missouri Tigers. reconstructed In a combination sacrificing weight for speed, today defeated the Kansas Jayhawkers by Z to o IN q hard Tough battle featured by wen per formed aerial attacks, ia their thirty-eighth annual gridiron meet ing before a record-breaking Kansas homecoming crowd of 1880. Russell Oils. 145-pound quarter back, making his debut in a start ing lineup, was the individual hero OF the game, Just as he was in the Missouri–Kansas ARRAY at Columbia last year, when he raced 100 wards with a kickoff to a touchdown In the Tigers IS to 6 victory.

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 50% 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 84 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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