Missouri at Illinois

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  The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, October 19, 1896, page 1

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  TIGERS WERE HUMBLED. The Missouriaus Defeated by Illinois Score 10 to O. St. Louis Oct 19.-Illinois state uni versity foot ball-team ingloriously de feated the team Of the Missouri state university at the De Hodiamonl grounds Saturday afternoon The final score was 10 to 0 in favor of Illinois. The game was a wretched exhibition of foot bali by both teams and the club which did the least poor playing won. Truly the AIiss0urians We’re not in II with the boys from Illinois They went down before them like wheat before the self-binder. But once did Missouri have q chance for her life. and, then, by bad Judgment and bad playing, lost it, Illinois fairly walked away with the Tigers. the vaunted Tigers VINO last year humbled the foot ball pride OF six states in the Mississippi valley and who. in the supreme confidence of their glory. wanted a chance to play Yale. the mother OF foot ball, herself

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Missouri leads 17–⁠7 in 24 meetings, counting the 23 since this game.