Iowa State at Kansas

Saturday, October 7, 1939

Kansas beat Iowa State 14–⁠0. It was their 18th meeting; after it, Kansas led the series 9–⁠6–⁠3.

AwayIowa State2–⁠7 in 1939
0
HomeKansas2–⁠6 in 1939
14

FinalHigh 98°F, low 67°FAttendance 8,043

In the newspapers

  • The The Nome nugget's story: Football Scores

    The Nome nugget, Alaska, October 9, 1939, page 1 (results column)

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    Football Scores Football finals-Alabama State 7, Forhlaln 6 West Virginia 0-Pitt 20 Missouri 0-Ohio Stat 19 Center 6--Army 2 Columbia 7-Yale 10 Louisiana State 26-Holy Cross Carnegie Tech 6-Temple 0 Colgate 0-Duke 37 Texas 17-Wisconsin 7 Minnesota 0-Nebraska 6 Iowa State 0-Kansas 14 Georgia Tech 14-Notre Dame IT Oklahoma 23-Northwestern 0 Stanford 0-Oregon 10 Idaho 6-Oregon State 2 UCLA 14-Washington 2 Washington State eSouthern Cal 27 St. Marys 7-California 3

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)

Iowa State 54% to win. Kansas won as Elo’s underdog.

Kansas leads 52–⁠46–⁠6 in 104 meetings, counting the 86 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Iowa State 38, Kansas 14
2024Kansas 45, Iowa State 36
2023Kansas 28, Iowa State 21
2022Kansas 14, Iowa State 11
2021Iowa State 59, Kansas 7
2020Iowa State 52, Kansas 22

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