Indiana at Missouri

Saturday, October 16, 1954

Missouri beat Indiana 20–⁠14. It was their second meeting; after it, Missouri led the series 2–⁠0.

AwayIndiana3–⁠6 in 1954
14
HomeMissouri4–⁠5–⁠1 in 1954
20

FinalHigh 59°F, low 40°FAttendance 22,972

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: indiana Misses Star, Loses 10 Missouri

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 17, 1954, page 66

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    indiana Misses Star, Loses 10 Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo-, Oct. 16.-An alert Missouri football team caught Indiana without its star man on attack, Florian Helinski. and roared to a 20–⁠14 victory today. Missouri scored all of it’s touch downs by air as Quarterback Tony Scardino completed two Of his three pass attempts and both went for touchdowns. His first was a 5-yard toss in the second quarter to End Jim (Ike) Jennings. The other went to Half back Jerry Schoonmaker in the fourth for % yards. Another quarterback, Vic Eaton, fired the third touchdown pass for Missouri, a 6-yard throw to End Jack Hurley in the third period. Halfback Don Domenic scored from the 3-yard line for Indiana in the second quarter. And Jim Stone went over for the Hoosiers in the final period from the 6. HelinSki was out with a shoulder iy, i,yy,v

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 69% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Indiana leads 7–⁠3–⁠2 in 12 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.

Recent meetings
2014Indiana 31, Missouri 27
2013Missouri 45, Indiana 28
1992Indiana 20, Missouri 10
1991Indiana 27, Missouri 27
1990Indiana 58, Missouri 7
1989Indiana 24, Missouri 7

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