Kansas State at Kansas

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 27, 1935, page 32

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  KANSAS OUT FRONT IN BIG SIX STRUGGLE Wins Its Opener in Conference Play-Defending Champion Victim of Upset. X ANSAS CITY, October 26.-The University of Kansas took at least temporary lease on first place today in the scrambled Big Six Conference foot ball race by upSetting the defending champion. Kansas State, 9 to 2. at Lawrence, KanS. The underdog Jayhawkers counted field goal, then yielded an intentional safety and countered with a touchdown to pin defeat on 6 team which battled the University of Ne braska last week to a scoreless tie. 1t was Kansas Conference opener. Nebraska, getting Bauer and Card we’ll loose, smothered Coach “Biff” Jones University of Oklahoma eleven, 19 to o, at Lincoln. Nebr., making three touchdowns and missing several chances to push the score higher. Oklahoma and Nebraska entered the game each with victory over Iowa State. Nebraska also had the tie with Kansas State. In the conference debut for both teams, Missouri and Iowa State fought to a 6–⁠6 tie at Ames. Iowa Missouri’s touchdown on an intercepted lateral in the first period was matched by Iowa States third-period score on a pass and plunges. Both goal attempts failed.

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.

Officially, Kansas leads 65–⁠53–⁠5 by Kansas’s count and 64–⁠54–⁠5 by Kansas State’s (the 1980 game, which the Big Eight ordered Kansas to forfeit, is disputed); as played, 65–⁠54–⁠5 in 124 meetings, counting the 91 since this game.