Oklahoma at Missouri

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 19, 1939, page 25

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  Missouri Whips Oklahoma, 10, As orr Grabs Blocked Punt, Goes Over for Touchdown contribution was pretty 15-yard run in the second quarter. In the final minutes of the game he COM mitted a tumble that might have proved disastrous. Oklahoma recovering on the 42-yard line and plunging through to the “a before Missouri braced and held. The punting of King, a sophomore, was what caused Oklahoma’s down. fall. Taking over the kicking in the third period. he pushed the Sooners back to their goal line and kept them there until the big break came. He was the hero Of the Mizzou campus tonight. Standing on his own 4O-yard mark, King got of tremendous boot that bounded out on Okla homa’s 6-yard stripe, and the stage was set. Clark went far back into his end zone to make the vital kick, but he was an eyewink late in put ting his foot to the leather and it struck both Charles Moser, center, and Bob orr, end of the charging Missouri line. orr Gets Big Score. Straight up it scared while players OF both teams scrambled beneath Three or four leaped for the precious pellet, and orr got it. One jump took him over the line as the Missouri home e-coming crowd raised the roar Only one other time did the Tigers

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  The Waterbury Democrat, Connecticut, November 23, 1939, page 1

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  Columbia, Mo-, Nov. 23.--Don B FAurot crashes the ranks Of big name coaches In establishing the University Of Missouri as a major football empire after five years OF constructive effort. Old Mizzou virtually clinched its first Big Six championship by spill ing the Wanted Oklahoma Sooners from the list Of unbeaten teams, 7–⁠6. It has only to repel Kansas at Law renee, November Is, to win a clear claim to the crown. Beating Kansas State, Iowa State, Nebraska, New York University and Oklahoma on successive Saturdays clearly establishes Missouri as a worthy titleholder. The current Old Gold and Black varsity, headed by the remarkable back, Paul Christman, ended a 10 year drouth at Columbia. Don Faurot succeeded Frank Carideo, whose clubs won only two conference engagements In three years. Neither Carideo, young and fresh from Notre Dame, nor the flock Of Now York boys he rushed into the Columbia institution fitted into the Missouri scheme Of things. Despite his recruiting, Carideo lacked the material with which to make the Rockne one-on- lone block ing and momentarily checking ideas work.

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Oklahoma leads 68–⁠25–⁠5 in 98 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.