Missouri at Ohio State
Saturday, October 7, 1939 Share
Ohio State beat Missouri 19–0. It was their first meeting; after it, Ohio State led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 87°F, low 48°FAttendance 58,165
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 8, 1939, page 28
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Ohio State Displays Real Power, Trims Missouri, 1910 COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 7.-Co-ordi. mating a deadly passing attack with hard running game. Ohio State Of the Big Ten displayed powerhouse today as it defeated Missouri, 19 to 0, in an intersectional football game. Missouri, rated an outstanding Big Six team, failed to break through the husky Ohio forward wall, and it’s vaunted aerial offense was completely bottled up. The visitors were in Ohio territory only twice, and then briefly. Ohio Halfback James Strausbaugh took the opening kickoff and raced IS yards to the goal, only to see the score invalidated by penalties Ohio came right back and marched 70 yards, scoring on Quarterback Don SCOTS l1-yard pass to End Frank Clair in the end zone. In the fourth period an 1S-yard pass from John Simione to End Charlie Anderson, both substitutes, netted the second touchdown. A few minutes later Scott zig Jagged his way beautifully through broken field for “a yards and the last touchdown. Clair and Anderson. a big negro playing his first game for Ohio, were wide open, as were most Of the Ohio receivers when they completed Q ont of 25 masses

The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 9, 1939, page 5 (results column)
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FOOTBALL SCORES The following are final scores of leading football games played last Saturday afternoon: Stanford O: Oregon 10. Idaho 6; oregon State ‘. Washington State 0, Southern California 27 St. Mary’s ‘; California 3. University of Washington ‘; U. CHA. IA. Alabama T. Fordham 6. West Virginia 0; Pitt 20 Missouri 0; Ohio State 19. Bates 0; Harvard 20. Rochester o; Oberlin 12. Western Reserve 12; Ohio U. l4. DePauw 6; Ohio Wesleyan 33. Virginia Military Institute 2; Dav- idson O. Auburn 0; Tulane 12 Texas Christian 13; Arkansas 14. Iowa State 32; Indiana 29. Kentucky 21; Vanderbilt 13. Brown 20: Amherst Ia. Syracuse 6; Cornell l9. Rhode Island 0; Name 24. Franklin Marshall 2, Boston U. 13. New York U. 43; Penn Military 0. Michigan State 13, Michigan 26, LaFayette 0; Pennsylvania 6. Bucknell 3; Penn State l3. Worcester Tech 6; Coast Guard Academy 0. Williams 6; Princeton 26. Centre 6; Army 2. Columbia ‘; Yale 10. Louisiana State 26; Holy Cross T. Carnegie Tech 6; Temple 0. Colgate 0; Duke 37. Texas IT; Wisconsin T. Iowa State 0; Kansas IA. Minnesota 0: Nebraska 6. Georgia Tech IA; Notre Dame IT.. Oklahoma 23; Northwestern O
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)
Ohio State 56% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Missouri–Ohio State gameOhio State leads 10–2–1 in 13 meetings, counting the 12 since this game.
| 2023 | Missouri 14, Ohio State 3 | Cotton Bowl |
| 1998 | Ohio State 35, Missouri 14 | |
| 1997 | Ohio State 31, Missouri 10 | |
| 1976 | Missouri 22, Ohio State 21 | |
| 1949 | Ohio State 35, Missouri 34 | |
| 1948 | Ohio State 21, Missouri 7 |
Around this game
Missouri
- Next gameat Washington St. LouisOct. 14, 1939
- SeasonMissouri in 1939
- ProgramMissouri history and records
Ohio State
- Next gamevs. NorthwesternOct. 14, 1939
- SeasonOhio State in 1939
- ProgramOhio State history and records

