Kansas State at Oklahoma

Saturday, October 19, 1940

Oklahoma beat Kansas State 14–⁠0. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Oklahoma led the series 12–⁠9–⁠4.

AwayKansas State2–⁠7 in 1940
0
HomeOklahoma6–⁠3 in 1940
14

FinalHigh 87°F, low 51°FAttendance 16,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story

    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.

Oklahoma leads 76–⁠22–⁠4 in 102 meetings, counting the 77 since this game.

Recent meetings
2022Kansas State 41, Oklahoma 34
2021Oklahoma 37, Kansas State 31
2020Kansas State 38, Oklahoma 35
2019Kansas State 48, Oklahoma 41
2018Oklahoma 51, Kansas State 14
2017Oklahoma 42, Kansas State 35

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