Kansas State at Oklahoma
Saturday, October 19, 1940 Share
Oklahoma beat Kansas State 14–0. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Oklahoma led the series 12–9–4.
FinalHigh 87°F, low 51°FAttendance 16,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 20, 1940, page 28 (results column)
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Len Eshmont and Fordham and the Rams took Pitt over the hurdles, A-12. De-emphasized Yale found the winning combination against Dart mouth and prevailed, 1871, as Ted Harrison completed q touchdown pass to John Reid in the last 80 seconds. Army and Harvard played q 6–6 draw, while Holy Cross won over New York University, 1877. Bo McMillin’s hard-luck Indiana outfit, after dropping close decisions to Texas and Nebraska, finally got going and dropped Iowa from the unbeaten class. 1916. Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri won Big Six games as expected. Nebraska, the favorite, piled up 53–2 count on Kansas; Missouri halted Iowa State, 30-l4. and Oklahoma out pointed Kansas State, 14–0. Georgia Tech opened its South. eastern Conference season With Q decisive 1910 conquest q Wander.
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)
Oklahoma 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Kansas State–Oklahoma gameOklahoma leads 76–22–4 in 102 meetings, counting the 77 since this game.
Around this game
Kansas State
- Next gamevs. KansasOct. 26, 1940
- SeasonKansas State in 1940
- ProgramKansas State history and records
Oklahoma
- Next gameat Iowa StateOct. 26, 1940
- SeasonOklahoma in 1940
- ProgramOklahoma history and records

