Kansas at Colorado

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  Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 8, 1961, page 103

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  Colorado Wins, 20–⁠19, On 20 Points at Finish BOULDER, Colo, Oct. (AP .-Colorado, trailing 1870 with Is minutes left, pulled out a 20–⁠19 Big Eight Conference football thriller over Kansas today on the passing arm of Quarterback Gale Weidner. ! Weidner hit end Ken Blair with scoring passes of So and AZ yards and connected on an other of is yards with End Jerry Hillebrand, who booted the two decisive extra points. Until the final quarter, Kan sas’ fleet backs had overrun the huge Colorado line which was outcharged by the Jayhawks’ fast forward wall. The complexion of the game changed when Weldner threw the~57-yard strike to Blair.

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.

Officially, Colorado leads 43–⁠25–⁠3; as played, 42–⁠26–⁠3 in 71 meetings, counting the 50 since this game.