Missouri at Kansas

Saturday, November 21, 1931

Kansas beat Missouri 14–⁠0. It was their 40th meeting; after it, Kansas led the series 14–⁠12–⁠4 in the games on file.

AwayMissouri2–⁠8 in 1931
0
HomeKansas5–⁠5 in 1931
14

FinalHigh 58°F, low 37°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: KANSAS BEATS MISSOURI

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 22, 1931, page 60

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    KANSAS BEATS MISSOURI LAWRENCE, Kans, November Al H0.-The Kansas Jayhawker power at tack came to life today and whipped the Missouri Tigers, II to 0. in their fortieth annual interstate foot ball game before a Kansas homecoming crowd Of 20,567. Carnie Smith, the husky back, made both touchdowns and Lee Page place kicked the extra points.

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)

Kansas 61% 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 82 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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