Kansas State at Missouri

Saturday, November 16, 1957

Kansas State beat Missouri 23–⁠21. It was their 43rd meeting; after it, Missouri led the series 25–⁠14–⁠4 as played.

AwayKansas State3–⁠6–⁠1 in 1957
23
HomeMissouri5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1957
21

FinalHigh 54°F, low 38°FAttendance 20,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Underdog Kansas State Defeats Missouri, 1921

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 17, 1957, page 69

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    Underdog Kansas State Defeats Missouri, 1921 COLUMBIA. Mo-. Nov. l6 (P). -Underdog Kansas State I’M leashed a ground game good for 4l0 yards and humbled Missouri. 1921, before 10000 today. A field goal from the 13yard line in the third quarter by Ben Crosse put the Wild cats ahead. 1914, and provided the winning margin as the teams traded last quarter touchdowns. MiSsouri’s last period touch down came first and Kansas State had to come from behind with a 52-yard scoring drive to win it. Except for the brilliant play Of Fullback Hank Kuhlmann. Missouri was a decisively beaten team. Missouri: now has 3–⁠2 Big Eight conference record and the final with Kansas at Lawrence next Saturday will be a battle for second place. Kansas State scored first Of the opening quarter. Quarterback Les Krull went over from the one after the Wildcats got possession on a tumble deep in Missouri ter ritory. Don zaenik kicked the point. Missouri wasted little time

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. Kansas State pulled the upset.

Officially, Missouri leads 61–⁠33–⁠5; as played, 60–⁠34–⁠5 in 99 meetings, counting the 56 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Missouri 30, Kansas State 27
2022Kansas State 40, Missouri 12
2011Kansas State 24, Missouri 17
2010Missouri 38, Kansas State 28
2009Missouri 38, Kansas State 12
2008Missouri 41, Kansas State 24

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