Oklahoma at Missouri
Saturday, November 13, 1943 Share
Oklahoma beat Missouri 20–13. It was their 34th meeting; after it, Oklahoma led the series 16–15–3.
FinalHigh 45°F, low 25°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 14, 1943, page 27
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Oklahoma Nears Title In Big Six, Downing Missouri, 20–13 bS tne ASsOCidteQ PfeSe. COLUMBIA, Mo-, Nov. l3.-Oklahoma moved toward the Big Six football championship by smashing Missouri’s string Of 81 home VIC tories, 20 to 13, today before $500 Homecoming fans Rebounding from Missouri touchdown in the first three and one-half minutes Of play, the lighter Sooners pounced on Tiger fumbles with regularity and launched a two touchdown offensive in the second quarter that turned the tide. For Missouri. the defeat was the first at Memorial Stadium since 1898. Don (BulD Reece scored for Missouri, in the first period. In the second, Derald Lebow made the first counter for the Sooners, and Bob Brumley ran Al yards for the sec ond. Lebow repeated for the Sooners in the fourth. Bob Brumley’s kick was good. Paul Collins tailed Missouri’s final touchdown, climaxing a So yard drive. Morton converted.

The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, November 15, 1943, page 5 (results column)
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I’D 4 FOOTBALL SCORES. The following are final scores oil principal football games played over the weekend; California 10: UCLA g. March Field IS; Southern Califor- MIA 0. Notre Dame IS: Northwestern 6. North Carolina 9; Penn 6. Temple O; Penn state 10. wisconsin 0; Michigan q. Cornell 0; Dartmouth 90. Rutgers 20; Lehigh Q. fiE’g Sampson Naval z; Army Is. Navy 81; Columbia 0. North Carolina State 20; David son %. Great Lakes 81: Indiana 7. Case 10; Buckncn 10. Tufts 10; Harvard 7. Oklahoma 20; Missouri 13. Princeton 6; Yale o. Iowa IA, Minnesota 80. Camp Grant 49, Iowa Seahawks 20 Coast Guard 81; Brown 81. Illinois &c; Ohio State 20. Texas Christian z. Texas as. Colorado College Sd; Utah 0. New Mexico 49, Denver Is. Colgate rs; Rensselaer, Poly O. Georgia as; Virginia Military 7. Georgia Preflight 80; Clemson 6 Duke 40; Virginia 0. Georgia Tech 33i Tulane 0, North Carolina Preflight IA, Camp Lejeune IA. Iowa State 20. Drake 0. Fort Riley Ia; Fort Warren 0. Kansas 10; Warrensburg Teachers H. Arkansas IA; Southern Methodist II North Texas Aggies “a; Texas Tech IA. Texas A. & M. 20; Rice 0. College of Pacific 43; Yuma Ari- IONA Army Air Base 0. Spokane Air Service Commands IS; Whitman College 10. st. Mary’s Preflight’ Al, University Of San Francisco O.
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 60% to win. Oklahoma won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Oklahoma–Missouri gameOklahoma leads 68–25–5 in 98 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.
| 2025 | Oklahoma 17, Missouri 6 | |
| 2024 | Missouri 30, Oklahoma 23 | |
| 2011 | Oklahoma 38, Missouri 28 | |
| 2010 | Missouri 36, Oklahoma 27 | |
| 2008 | Oklahoma 62, Missouri 21 | Big 12 Championship Game |
| 2007 | Oklahoma 38, Missouri 17 | Big 12 Championship Game |
Around this game
Oklahoma
- Next gameat NebraskaNov. 27, 1943
- SeasonOklahoma in 1943
- ProgramOklahoma history and records
Missouri
- Next gameat KansasNov. 20, 1943
- SeasonMissouri in 1943
- ProgramMissouri history and records

