Missouri at Kansas

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  The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 21, 1943, page 7

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  Kansas Registers 7–⁠6 Upset Over Missouri LAWRENCE, Kas., Nov. 20,--jH Bill Chestnut calmly drop-kicked the extra point TO give a battling University of Kansas football team a rs upset victory today over Missouri before a Big Six conference homecoming crowd of 5000. Chestnut 5 point-maker followed a 44-yard Kansas march to touch down in the third quarter.

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, November 22, 1943, page 19 (results column)

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  Best Service Teams In Years 10 Clash IN Top Number NEW YORK. Nov. 22-The college football season winds up this week with the ArrV-Navy traditional classic at West Point in the No., spot. There is tremendous interest, of course, in the Notre Dame Great Lakes game at Chicago and to a lesser extent in such sectional rivalries as Penn-Cornell, Brown Colgate (both Thanksgiving Day. TeXas-TeXas Aggies, Georgia Tech Georgia and Southern California u. G. L. A. The annual service clash dwarfs all others more than ever this year, however, as both the Cadets and Middies boast their strongest teams in many, many seasons. Only mighty Notre Dame has defeated them. In stead of the mammoth crowd Of 100000 that used to view the game at Philadelphia, however, only those living within a 10-mile radius Of West Point are eligible to purchase the $4,000 tickets available. This wartime transportation restriction was adopted a year ago when the game was played at Annapolis and Navy upset favored Army team. Army tuned up for its prime OBJ jective by overwhelming Brown, $50, on Saturday. Navy was idle. Tradition Inspires Irish. The big news of the week end was Notre Danes comeback to squeeze past the formidable Iowa Seahawks, 14-l3, and Coach Frank Leahy finally admitting he has a cham ptunship team He didn’t say so, but: by inference he believes his boys sheuld take Great Lakes this week to become Notre Danes first unbeaten, united eleven since Knute Roekne’s 1880 aggregation. ,Rerhaps the inspiration derived from a visit to Rockne’s grave before the game helped Notre Dame rise, to every occasion, AS the PLAYERS bowed their heads, Leahy said: Fellows, there was the man who made the fighting Irish a great tradition. Let’s not let him down today” In another exciting game, Purdues Boilermakers finished their season unbeaten and united by put ting on great goal line stand in the final minute to defeat In diana, TO. Randolph Field of Texas and Colorado College retained their perfeet records by beating the North Texas Aggies, 2o-13, and Colorado University, 60. Results Of Other Games. Dartmouth, beaten only by Penn sylvania, 7–⁠6, wound up satisfactory season by lacing Princeton, 42–⁠13 Villanova and Al Postus whipped Temple, BAT, while Penn State humbled Pitt, 14–⁠0, and Lafaycite upset Rutgers, 90. In other outstanding games Duke trounced North Carolina, 27–⁠6; Kansas upset Missouri, 7–⁠6; North western whacked Illinois, 53–⁠6; Great Lakes beat Marquette, 1856; Colgate licked Columbia. 40; Mich igan ran over Ohio State, 45–⁠7; Minnesota took Wisconsin, 25–⁠13; Rice beat Texas Christian, 1876; Texas Tech doWned Southern Meth odist, rs, and Del, Monte Preflight stamped itself as. one of the best Pacific Coast outfits by trouncing st. Mary’s Predight, 37–⁠14.

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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 70 since this game.