Kansas at Missouri

Thursday, November 21, 1940. Missouri kept the Indian War Drum

Missouri beat Kansas 45–⁠20. It was their 49th meeting; after it, Kansas led the series 17–⁠16–⁠6 in the games on file.

AwayKansas2–⁠7 in 1940
20
HomeMissouri6–⁠3 in 1940
45

FinalHigh 57°F, low 38°F, 0.09 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Tacoma times's story: Missouri Defeats Kansas Gridmen

    The Tacoma times, Tacoma, Wash., November 23, 1940, page 15

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    Missouri Defeats Kansas Gridmen COLUMBIA. Mo. Uniyersity Of Missouri football team celebrsted homecoming and the final game Of the season before 1000 fans yesterday BY defeating Kan sas. 4s 10 20 in the 49th annual game between the two schools Paul Christmsn. playing ms final college game. closed out his season with great display Of passing and running.

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)

Missouri 86% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Missouri leads 59–⁠54–⁠9 by Missouri’s count and 58–⁠55–⁠9 by Kansas’s (the 1960 game is disputed); as played, 56–⁠48–⁠8 in the 112 games on file; the official count covers all 122 meetings, counting the 73 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Missouri 38, Kansas 21
2025Missouri 42, Kansas 31
2011Missouri 24, Kansas 10
2010Missouri 35, Kansas 7
2009Missouri 41, Kansas 39
2008Kansas 40, Missouri 37

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