Missouri at Kansas

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  Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], December 1, 1905, page 6

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  KANSAS WINS FROM MISSOURI Team from the show-Me state Is Unable TO Score. KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. 30. - Before 1000 foot ball enthusiasts, the largest crowd that ever witnessed gridiron contest in Kansas City. the University of Kansas foot ball team today defeated the University of Missouri eleven in their fifteenth annual game by a score OF “a to 0. Ideal foot ball weather prevailed. At the kick Off Kansas ruled slight favorite in the betting with plenty of Missouri money in sight. Missouri won the toss and chose the east goal. with the wind at their backs. Pooler kicked of and sent the pigskin TO Kansas thirty-five yard line Missouri, after two downs. punted to Kansas thirty five yard line. where Kansas took the ball and. by a series of line plunges and end runs fourteen minutes after play begun pushed Pooler over the goal line for a touchdown Pooler kicked goat. Score: Kansas. s.; Missouri. o. Missouri could do nothing and the half ended with the score: Kansas. 6; Missouri. o. In the second half Missouri took tenn porary brace but only for a few minutes. and Kansas scored almost at will. Pooler. Drummer and Donald were used by Kansas in almost every play, and the trio proved equal to the task OF carrying the ball through the enemys line and around its ends Missouri’s defense throughout the game was feeble, while her offensive play ing was not above the ordinary. Final score: Kansas. “a; Missouri, 0. The linpun.

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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 107 since this game.