Iowa State at Missouri

Saturday, October 21, 1944

Iowa State and Missouri tied 21–⁠21. It was their 37th meeting; after it, Missouri led the series 19–⁠12–⁠5 in the games on file.

AwayIowa State6–⁠1–⁠1 in 1944
21
HomeMissouri3–⁠5–⁠2 in 1944
21

FinalHigh 60°F, low 43°FAttendance 5,281

In the newspapers

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: TIES AND UpSET5 ARE FEATURES OF WEEKEND GAMES

    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 23, 1944, page 3 (results column)

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    TIES AND UpSET5 ARE FEATURES OF WEEKEND GAMES The R m bl ing Wrecks from Georgia Tech wrecked the power full Navy Saturday, IT to l5. It was college football upset day as Notre Dame, Army and Ohio State rolled to victory unbeaten and un- tied. Outrushed 221 yards to minus six, the Engineers climaxed an up- hill struggle with a 20-yard field goal, made by Allen Bowen, thus winning a tally, and then they re- pelled the last-minute Navy drive. Holding the downs on the one yard line, Notre Dame, the coun- trys number one eleven, enter tained a home town crowd Satur- day, overcoming stubborn Wiscon- sin, 28 to 13. The Beavers were the first to cross the Irish goal this season. The Army, number two team na- tionally, ran wild, piling up a 76 to 10 score on the United States Coast Guard Academy team, which pre- viously had lost only to Yale. Ohio State exploded three touch downs in the last quarter to break a six to six deadlock and whip Great Lakes, 26 to 6. Ohios Les Horvath caught the fire in the final period and sparked the Buck eyes to their fourth straight win North Carolina Preflight, the only other team of the top 10 in the country to play, barely squeak ed by the Georgia Preflighters. A field goal from the eight-yard line by Buell. St. Johns in the seven seconds left in the game kept the Cloudbusters in the undefeated class with 3 to 0 win It was 48 years coming, but Kansas finally licked Nebraska Saturday. The Jayhawkers turned the trick with a 20 to triumph Iowa State vs. Missouri; Brown vs. Holy Cross, each put on a thrilling offensive program Satur- day, but finished even, 21 to 21 and 24 to “A for ties. Another last-period field goal from the seven-yard line gave Tu- lane a 16 to 13 win over Auburn.

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 56% to win.

Officially, Missouri leads 61–⁠34–⁠9; as played, 61–⁠33–⁠9 in the 103 games on file; the official count covers all 104 meetings, counting the 67 since this game.

Recent meetings
2011Missouri 52, Iowa State 17
2010Missouri 14, Iowa State 0
2009Missouri 34, Iowa State 24
2008Missouri 52, Iowa State 20
2007Missouri 42, Iowa State 28
2006Iowa State 21, Missouri 16

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