Kansas at Colorado

Saturday, October 28, 1905

Colorado beat Kansas 15–⁠0. It was their third meeting; after it, the series stood even at 1–⁠1–⁠1 as played.

AwayKansas10–⁠1 in 1905
0
HomeColorado8–⁠1 in 1905
15

FinalHigh 38°F, low 32°F, 0.08 in. of rain

In the newspapers

  • The The Topeka state journal's story: X. U. IS DEFEATED Colorado Wins From Kansas ID to 0. JayhaWkers We're Handicapped by High Altitude. BATTLED TO THE LAST. Plueky Kansans Often Held Their Heavy Opponents. Coach Kennedy Says the Best Team Won. BATTLED TO THE LAST

    The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, October 29, 1905, page 1

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    X. U. IS DEFEATED Colorado Wins From Kansas ID to 0. JayhaWkers We’re Handicapped by High Altitude. BATTLED TO THE LAST. Plueky Kansans Often Held Their Heavy Opponents. Coach Kennedy Says the Best Team Won. BATTLED TO THE LAST Denver. Colo, Oct 2S.-All the -Jayhawker hopes of a never defeated team were smashed here this after noon when the Kansans were defeat ed by the score OF Is to 0 by the Uni versity of Colorado. At the end of the first half the score was to 0, and things seemed to be all for Kansas, gut in the second half the Jayhawkars, unused to the thin air, rapidly ired, ana the Coloradoans-and the word ‘sceloradoans’‘ means one man. -aIey-by hard work carried the ball 20 two touchdowns. II. was a wonderful game until near the end of the first half. when the wornout Jayhawkers, although game to the last. were too weak to make their stubborn resistance that was al ways in evidence in the first of the game

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)

Colorado 59% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Colorado leads 43–⁠25–⁠3; as played, 42–⁠26–⁠3 in 71 meetings, counting the 68 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Kansas 37, Colorado 21
2010Kansas 52, Colorado 45
2009Colorado 34, Kansas 30
2008Kansas 30, Colorado 14
2007Kansas 19, Colorado 14
2006Kansas 20, Colorado 15

Around this game

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