Missouri at Illinois

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 16, 1949, page 43

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  Tigers Go IS Yards | In Final Period 10 Snap Rivals Streak : CHAMPAIGN. ILL.,. Oct. Is Missouri slammed IS yards to a winning touchdown in the final quarter today, repulsing an Illinois rally inspired by Dick Raklovits’ 75-yard scoring dash and snatching a 27–⁠20 intersectional football victory. After ties with Iowa State and Wisconsin and a win over Iowa, Illinois undefeated streak ended before crowd of 42,184 fans. Missouri’s well-earned triumph was its second in four starts. Missouri’s split-T formation exploded for two markers the first eight minutes Of the opening quarter and another in the second as the Tigers rolled into 20–⁠6 half time margin. Then Bernie Krueger’s wobbly 22-yard pass was snagged by Johnny Karras for a touchdown to push Illinois drive to a tie in the third period. The Illini made it 1920 when Raklovits took Phil Klein’s punt and sprinted rs yards to score. Lew Levanti converted twice. Missouri’s 65-yard push at the start Of the finale was set up on Dick Braznell’s 30-yard toss to Gene Ackermann. Winfard Carter eventually shot across from the three and John Glorioso added the point for the 27–⁠20 tab. Missouri --------- 13 o 7–⁠27 1 Illinois ------ o 6 IA go Missouri Scoring: Touchdowns-Glori $50, Braznell. Klein, Carter. Points after OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES go. Illinois Scoring: Touchdowns Clark, | karras, RaklovitS. Points after touch | down-Leyanti 90.

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, October 17, 1949, page 3 (results column)

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  FOOTBALL SCORES Final scores of football games played over the weekend are as fol- lows: Stanford 40; Washington 0. Washington State 35; Idaho 13. Oregon State 63; Montana IA. Oregon 42; Colorado IA. College of Idaho 33; Eastern Ore gon College 25. Lewis & Clark 20; Linfield 2. Pacific University 33; Whitman 27. Eastern Washington 27; Whit worth 20. Pacific Lutheran 25; St. Martins 20 Western Washington 21; British Columbia 6. Southern Oregon College 55; Ore gon Tech (Klamath Falls) IA. College of Pacific 75; Portland University 20. Puget Sound Jayvees 2; Fort Lawton 0. Washington State Frosh 5l; Mon- tana Frosh 0. Maine 12; Connecticut 12. Amherst 19; Colby 6. l Washington est. Louis) 12; West ern Michigan 0. Minnesota 27 Ohio State O. Michigan State 42; William Mary 13. Dartmouth 27; Colgate IS. Duquesne 40, Holy Cross IA. Army 54; Harvard IA. North Carolina 28; Wake Forest IA. Penn 27; Columbia ‘. Duke IA; North Carolina State 13 Cornell 48; Yale IA. Iowa State IS; Kansas State 18. Notre Dame 46; Tulane T. Wisconsin AS; Navy 13. Iowa 35; Indiana g. Missouri 27 Illinois 20. Franklin and Marshall IA Car negie Tech IA. l Western Maryland 39; Washing. ton College (Md) 6. Coast Guard 21; Kingspoint IA. Williams 33; Bowdoin o. Lehigh 33; Gettysburg 20 Virginia 27; Washington and Le, 7. Princeton 27; Brown IA. Nebraska 2; Penn State g. Massachusetts 32; Rhode Islant 19 Pittsburgh 35; Miami (OhiO 26 Georgia Tech 35; Auburn 2l. Northwestern 21; Michigan 20. Alabama T; Tennessee 2. Syracuse 21; Rutgers g. Fordham 33; Scranton 13. Cincinnati 19; Mississippi State ( Virginia Military IA; Richmond C Wyoming 27; Utah State 0. George Washington 24; Virgini Polytechnic IA. Texas 27; Arkansas IA. Oklahoma 48; Kansas 26. Texas Christian 28; Texas Aggie 6.

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Missouri leads 17–⁠7 in 24 meetings, counting the 21 since this game.