Missouri at Kansas

Thursday, November 26, 1903

Kansas beat Missouri 5–⁠0. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Kansas led the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file.

AwayMissouri1–⁠7–⁠1 in 1903
0
HomeKansas6–⁠3 in 1903
5

FinalHigh 33°F, low 25°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Minneapolis journal's story: Kansas Defeats Missouri.

    The Minneapolis journal, Minneapolis, Minn., November 27, 1903, page 16

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    Kansas Defeats Missouri. + Kansas City, Mo-. Nov. In an exciting contestin which neither team scored a touchdown, Kansas university defeated Missouri university, in their thirteenth an nual Thanksgiving game yesterday by the score of 5 to O. Kansas made the only score Of the game three minutes before time was called in the last half with a place kick for goal from the 40-yard line.

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)

Kansas 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Missouri leads 59–⁠54–⁠9 by Missouri’s count and 58–⁠55–⁠9 by Kansas’s (the 1960 game is disputed); as played, 56–⁠48–⁠8 in the 112 games on file; the official count covers all 122 meetings, counting the 109 since this game.

Recent meetings
2026Missouri 38, Kansas 21
2025Missouri 42, Kansas 31
2011Missouri 24, Kansas 10
2010Missouri 35, Kansas 7
2009Missouri 41, Kansas 39
2008Kansas 40, Missouri 37

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