Missouri at Kansas State
Saturday, October 8, 1938 Share
Kansas State beat Missouri 21–13. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Kansas State led the series 11–9–4 as played.
FinalHigh 89°FAttendance 8,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, October 9, 1938, page 29
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KANSAS STATE AHEAD Defeats Missouri, 21–13, Despite Christman’s Fine Passing. MANHATTAN, Kans., Oct. 8 R.- Missouri’s Paul Christman pitched great game today, but his support was weak and the Tigers bowed, 81 to Is, to a more rugged Kansas State team in a Big Six Conference football game. Thirty-five times the Missouri sophthe ball, usually with remarkable acomore dropped back casually to flip curacy. Sixteen tosses found their marks, but seven were intercepted and 1t was this alertness that brought Kansas State victory. One Of his passes in the third Pc riod, completed to Moss, covered 50 yards in the air.

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 10, 1938, page 5 (results column)
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FOOT BALL M {A{5SW{5TS Ne The following are scores of prln- cipal football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington o; U.CL.A. 13. Texas A and M O. Santa Clara T. North Dakota State 0; Idaho 27. Washington State 0; Stanford S. Portland O.; Oregon State 19. College of the Pacific 0; Califor- mia 39. Centenary 6; Southwestern of Memphis o. Duquesne c; Pittsburgh 27. Tulane IT; North Carolina IA. LaFayette 0; Brown 20. Duke ?; Colgate 0. Waynesburg O; Fordham 5. Dartsmouth g; Princeton 0. New York 26; Rutgers 6. Manhattan 6; Holy Cross 19. Columbia 20; Army Is. Yale 0; Pennsylvania 21. Virginia O. Navy S. Chicago ‘; Michigan 45. Washington and Lee 6; West Vir- ginia 6, tie. Lehigh O., Case 0, tie. Carnegie Tech 32; Wittenberg 13. Vanderbilt IA; Kentucky T. Bucknell IA; Penn State O. Virginia Tech 27; William and Mary 0. Cornell 20; Harvard 0. Holy Cross 19; Manhattan 6. Drake O.; Northwestern B. Purdue 0; Minnesota ‘. Auburn 0: Tennessee T. Alabama IA; North Carolina State 0. Missouri 13 Kansas State 21. Southern California IA: Ohio State ‘. California Aggies 0; California 43. Indiana 2; Illinois 12. Wisconsin 31; Iowa 13 Baylor g; Arkansas 6. Iowa State 8; Nebraska ‘. Oklahoma 13 Texas 0. Notre Dame IA; Georgia Tech 6.
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 State 54% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Missouri–Kansas State gameOfficially, Missouri leads 61–33–5; as played, 60–34–5 in 99 meetings, counting the 75 since this game.
Around this game
Missouri
- Next gamevs. Iowa StateOct. 15, 1938
- SeasonMissouri in 1938
- ProgramMissouri history and records
Kansas State
- Next gameat MarquetteOct. 14, 1938
- SeasonKansas State in 1938
- ProgramKansas State history and records

