Northwestern at Missouri
Saturday, September 21, 1963 Share
No. 6 Northwestern beat Missouri 23–12. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Northwestern led the series 3–2.
FinalHigh 76°F, low 59°FAttendance 45,000
In the newspapers

The Nome nugget, September 23, 1963, page 7 (results column)
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Cridiron Squads Get I’m Full Swing Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina State turned in impressive victories in making their 1863 debuts in college foot ball. The Sooners of Oklahoma – ranked at Number Four in the A-P preseason poll – broke loose in the second half for 31 to 14 vic tory over Clemson. TouchdoWns by Lance Rentzel, Mike Ringer and Ralph Nicely, plus a field goal by George Jarman gave Oklahoma its second-half points. Alabama whipped Georgia, 32 to ‘, in the opening Southeastern Conference game for the two teams. Mike Fracchia scored two touchdoWns and quarterback Joe Klamath sparked the attack for the Crimson Tide. A flock of talented sophomores paced Tennessee to a 34 to rout of Richmond, giving Jim McDon- aid a victory in his head coaching debut for the Volunteers. Hal Wantland scored two touchdoWns to lead the way for Tennessee. North Carolina State surprised Maryland, 36 to 14, with quarter back Jim Rossi starring for the Wolfpack Rossi scored one touch down and passed for another one while he mixed up his attack per fectly. In an Atlantic Coast Confer ence opener, North Carolina de- feated Virginia, II to 2, on a fourth-period touchdown by Ken Willard. Henry Massie gave the Cavaliers their touchdown on a 99-yard runback of the second-half kickoff Army and Navy both came through with one-sided decision in their first appearance of the season. The Army battered Boston University, 30 to O. Navy ran wild in it’s 51 to 2 shellacking of West Virginia. Elsewhere on the gridiron: Wally Mahle led Syracuse to a 32 to 21 victory over Boston College; Ne braska ripped South Dakota State for a 58 to decision; Kansas State registered a 24 to 2 verdict over Brigham Young; Northwestern dOWned Missouri, 23 to 12: Duke held off South Carolina for g to l4 victory. Iowa State-California – Cali fornia quarterback Craig Morton
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 65% to win. Northwestern won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Northwestern–Missouri gameMissouri leads 5–4 in nine meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 2008 | Missouri 30, Northwestern 23 | Alamo Bowl |
| 1987 | Missouri 28, Northwestern 3 | |
| 1985 | Northwestern 27, Missouri 23 | |
| 1967 | Missouri 13, Northwestern 6 | |
| 1963 | Northwestern 23, Missouri 12 | |
| 1932 | Northwestern 27, Missouri 0 |
Around this game
Northwestern
- Next gamevs. IndianaSept. 28, 1963
- SeasonNorthwestern in 1963
- ProgramNorthwestern history and records
Missouri
- Next gameat ArkansasSept. 28, 1963
- SeasonMissouri in 1963
- ProgramMissouri history and records

