Nebraska at Missouri

• 

  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 31, 1943, page 1

  Read the text

  Missouri Tigers Smash Nebraska Huskers, 54–⁠20 COLUMBIA, Mo-, Oct. 3o.-R- The Missouri Tigers, exhibiting the same power that brought them championships the past two years, battered Nebraska into its worst defeat in the history of their foot ball series today, winning the Big Six encounter 81 to 20 before 5000 fans. Crumbling the Huskers defense with an eight touchdown assault, the Tigers 34-point edge surpassed their previous 20-point margin scored last year.

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.

Officially, Nebraska leads 65–⁠36–⁠3; as played, 60–⁠33–⁠3 in the 96 games on file; the official count covers all 104 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.