Kansas at TCU

Saturday, September 22, 1951

Kansas beat TCU 27–⁠13. It was their ninth meeting; after it, TCU led the series 6–⁠1–⁠2.

AwayKansas8–⁠2 in 1951
27
HomeTCU6–⁠5 in 1951
13

FinalAttendance 28,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Robertson Passing Gives Kansas Upset lover TCU, II to IS

    Evening star, September 23, 1951, page 46

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    Robertson Passing Gives Kansas Upset lover TCU, II to IS FORT WORTH, Tex, Sept. 22.-The magic passing of Jerry Robertson threw an upset into Texas Christian University tonight as Kansas University defeated the Southwest Conference eleven, 27 to 13. Robertson, a sub for Jerry Bogue. passed for two touchdowns. Then he topped his performance by running 13 yards for another tally. To finish off the Horned Frogs, Charlie Hoag passed for another score late in the fourth when it appeared Texas Christian still had a chance to pull the game out of the fire. Texas Christian, expected to toss few passes itself, stayed on the ground, taking to the air mainly to loosen up the Big Seven Conference teams defense. In the fourth, the Horned Frogs crossed up the Jayhawks when Malvin Fowler tossed four-yarder to John Medanich for the final Texas Christian touchdown, But TCU got TO the 4 mainly on the 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)

TCU 60% to win. Kansas won as Elo’s underdog.

TCU leads 27–⁠9–⁠4 in 40 meetings, counting the 31 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024TCU 38, Kansas 27
2022TCU 38, Kansas 31
2021TCU 31, Kansas 28
2020TCU 59, Kansas 23
2019TCU 51, Kansas 14
2018Kansas 27, TCU 26

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