Colorado at Missouri

Saturday, November 8, 1952

Missouri beat Colorado 27–⁠7. It was their 17th meeting; after it, Missouri led the series 12–⁠4–⁠1.

AwayColorado6–⁠2–⁠2 in 1952
7
HomeMissouri5–⁠5 in 1952
27

FinalHigh 60°F, low 45°F, 0.64 in. of rainAttendance 13,500

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Hook and Rowekomp Lead Missouri to Win Over Colorado

    Evening star, November 9, 1952, page 63

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    Hook and Rowekomp Lead Missouri to Win Over Colorado |sped 18 yards for the lone Colo RADIO touchdown. Missouri already had scored two touchdowns. one in the second quarter, and the other soon after the third opened. The Tigers drove IS yards for the first touchdown with short pass from Hook to Bill Rowecamp for the score just before the halt ended. Rowekamp broke off the right side Of his line in the third quarter for the second Tiger touch down. The most spectacular run OF the day came in the fourth quarter. Hook suddenly broke into the clear on a pitch-out from Tony Scarino and faxed his way into fthe open for a 77-yard touchdown run. Missouri scoring-touchdown Rowe. kamp (2) Hook, Carras. oints aftel touchdowns: Fuchs Oh. Colorado scoring-touchdowns: Hardy poinfS affer touchdnwn. Williamx

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)

Colorado 64% to win. Missouri won as Elo’s underdog.

Missouri leads 41–⁠31–⁠3 in 75 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.

Recent meetings
2010Missouri 26, Colorado 0
2009Missouri 36, Colorado 17
2008Missouri 58, Colorado 0
2007Missouri 55, Colorado 10
2006Missouri 28, Colorado 13
2005Colorado 41, Missouri 12

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