Iowa at Missouri
Saturday, October 17, 1908 Share
Missouri beat Iowa 10–5. It was their fifth meeting; after it, Iowa led the series 3–2.
FinalHigh 86°F, low 64°F
In the newspapers

The Topeka state journal, Topeka, Kansas, October 19, 1908, page 1
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MISSOURI DEFEATS IOWA. Won From the Hawl1eyes in a 10 to 5 Battle -. Columbia No. Oct. 19.-A1l dope on the Iowa-Missouri game was upset here sat urday afternoon by a 10 to victory OF the Tigers over the Hawkeyesi, OnG from the 42-yard line and one goal, FOR Iowa. one touchdown, Kirk failed to KICK goal All the scoring was done In tne first half In the second half was VIII messed the fiercest playing ever seen on Rollins field. Iowa put in three new men at the beginning of the half. MISSOURI None of the star men protested by Iowa was in the game Easy” Anderson, Cap tain Miller and Carother5 stood on me side lines and watched their substitutes, Barnes. Cove and Roberts, repeatedly throw back the team that ran up ninety two points on Coe college last Saturday Iowa scored first after fifteen minutes of battling in the center OF me III leu ~, attempted punt and ran thirty-IVe yaEuIs for a touchdown. Kirk failed TO KICK goal. Missourfs score came IN the iass part of the first thirty-five minutes OF play On his own 45-yard line Deatherage signaled for field goal. The catch was imperfect but before it had time 70 ron bail and the oval went fairly between Iowa’s goal posts. With only five minutes to play. Iowa tried to punt on her own 45-yard line caught the ball. and ran seventy-five yards behind splendid interference, for a touchdown. Driver kicked goal. The half ended 10 to in favor of Missouri IN the second half was seen the fastest football vet witnessed on Rollins field: Iowa was clearly disheartened. Missouri dispensed with the individual star work and played 1nachine-like ball “Tubby’ Graves broke his wrist in the last part of the game. He had it bound IN spllnts and played on: For Missouri Graves; Deatherage. Driver and Alexander played fine ball. Gross. Hyland and Kirk played Iowa’s best game.

The Paducah evening sun, Paducah, Ky., October 19, 1908, page 6 (results column)
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Football Results. West. Chicago. If: Illinois. 6. Wisconsin. IS; Indiana, 0. Minnesota. o: Nebraska, o. Perdue. 80: Monmouth, o. Missouri. 10: Iowa, 5. Michigan, ~; NotTe Dame. s. Washington, u, IL; Knox, 8. Kansas. II; Oklahoma, o. st. Louis u, “a; Arkansas. o. Drake, IS; Coe, 0. Creighton College. s; Grinnell. I. EarTham, 16; Franklin, 6. Western Reserve, IS; Ohio state, o Marquette u, So; st. viateurs, O.. Ripon, 81; Belolt. 8. Tennessee, I; Kentucky State. .. Vanderbilt, Al: Clemson, o. East. Yale, 6: West Point. 0. Harvard, Az Springfield T s., 0. Princeton, 10; Virginia Poly, T. Penn ~: Brown, o. Cornell. 3; Colgate, o. Dartmouth, o: Williams, 0. Annapolis, 16; Lehigh, 0. Holy Cross, IL; Bowdoln, ). Maine, 8; New Hampshire S C., 4. Trinity, is; New York L., 4. South. University School, 6. X. NJ. l., 2. Mail High school 6; Georgetown, 3 Tennessee, Z; Kentucky State. o. 81. Mays, 10: Pennsylvania, o. Mississippi, II; Missouri State 0. West Virginia, re; Carnegie Tech 0. Chattanooga, IL; Athens. o. Texas. 81; Bayler University, ). Few kisses are stolen from the glrl with an onion-flavored breath.
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 52% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Iowa–Missouri gameMissouri leads 5–4 in nine meetings, counting the four since this game.
| 2024 | Missouri 27, Iowa 24 | Music City Bowl |
| 2010 | Iowa 27, Missouri 24 | Insight Bowl |
| 1910 | Missouri 5, Iowa 0 | |
| 1909 | Missouri 13, Iowa 12 | |
| 1908 | Missouri 10, Iowa 5 | |
| 1907 | Iowa 21, Missouri 6 |
Around this game
Iowa
- Next gameat MorningsideOct. 24, 1908
- SeasonIowa in 1908
- ProgramIowa history and records
Missouri
- Next gamevs. Westminster (Missouri)Oct. 24, 1908
- SeasonMissouri in 1908
- ProgramMissouri history and records

