Colorado at Missouri
Saturday, November 13, 1948 Share
No. 20 Missouri beat Colorado 27–13. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Missouri led the series 9–3–1.
FinalHigh 50°F, low 28°FAttendance 22,500
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 14, 1948, page 45
Read the text
Missouri Overcomes Lead to Down Colorado COLUMBIA, Mo, Nov. 13.-Missouri, University’s Tigers, trailing at the halfway mark, came to life in the last half OF their Big Seven Conference football game with Col orado’s Buffaloes here today for a 27 to Is victory. Badly outplayed in the first half, Don Faurot’s Missourians power housed and passed their way with undeniable persistency in the last two quarters. They scored two of their touchdowns by air and the other two by ground.
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 73% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Colorado–Missouri gameMissouri leads 41–31–3 in 75 meetings, counting the 62 since this game.
| 2010 | Missouri 26, Colorado 0 | |
| 2009 | Missouri 36, Colorado 17 | |
| 2008 | Missouri 58, Colorado 0 | |
| 2007 | Missouri 55, Colorado 10 | |
| 2006 | Missouri 28, Colorado 13 | |
| 2005 | Colorado 41, Missouri 12 |
Around this game
Colorado
- Next gamevs. Colorado StateNov. 20, 1948
- SeasonColorado in 1948
- ProgramColorado history and records
Missouri
- Next gameat NebraskaNov. 20, 1948
- SeasonMissouri in 1948
- ProgramMissouri history and records

