Missouri at Kansas

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  Omaha daily bee, Nebraska, November 27, 1908, page 1

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  KANSAS CHAMPS OF VALE Gains a Clear Title by the Defeat Of Missouri University. CoLoRs NOT LOWERED THIS YEAR M~issourians, However, Give Them . SuH Argument aud Their Honors Are Earned by Hard Play. KANSAS CITY. Nov. 2~6-(special Tee gram.)-By defeating the University OF Missouri team at Association park this afternoon by a score OF 10 TO 4 before q crowd Of 1900 persons, the University Of Kansas eleven cinched its claim to the title of foot bail champions of the Missouri valley. This morning only one obstscls-Missourl stood between the Jayhawkers and = clean record of victories for the season. Today the Kansas 1908 team is in the Kan sas university temple OF ever victorious stevens. in which the Yost machine of 1899 has led such a lonesome life. And the Missourians once more they cam to Kansas City hoping, proaying for victory. They NETT heir greatest rival for the eighteenth time, and for the thirteenth time they came off the field a defeated team. But there has never been anything inglorious about a Tiger defeat. There was nothing ingloTious about today’s defeat. When a man gives for ten weeks his body and mind into the hands OF his coaches 20 be nodded as they see best; when a man trained for ten weeks for an hour of play. puts into that hour OF play all he has. never whimperng, never quitting. never lodging any hard knocks, but boring in and fightig like a man; fighting as his forefathers fought, a square battle with a never-say-dle spirit. doing his best in spite OF ever~yth1ng-when such a man loses. he loses honorably and to him is due as much credit as the man who fought the same kind OF a battle on the winning side. It’s easy to be a good winner. but the real test o IA man is whether or not he 10 . good loser. Two touchdowns gave Kansas the game. A place kick gave Missouri it’s score, tn, first the Tigers have made against Kan sas since 1902. The Tigers started out with a rush ana for the first fifteen minutes outplayed the Jayhawkers at every turn. After Car rying the ball from their own ten-yaTd line to the Kansas twenty-five yard line, the Tigers were held and BIuck missed a thirty five-yard place kick. After John sons kick out, the Tigers again stormed the Kansas goal line. Kansas held this time on its ten-yard line. Bluck went back for another kick and sent the pigskin sail ing between the posts, eighteen yards away, making the score, Missouri, 4; Kan sas, O. cit was the first time the Missouri und~ergraduates had ever seen their team score on Kansas and for five minutes the ! Missouri section was a pandemonium OF shrieking, whooping ~rooters, whone lungs were the outlet OF enthusiasm pent up for years. Their bodies tingied with JOY and they cheered again and again and threw up their hats and Rugged each other, for 1t seemed that Missouri was destined to defat that as yet indicated Kansas eleven. But from that time on the tide Of the battle turned. The heretofore overconfident Ja%yhawkers buckled down to work, and a touchdown soon Followed. Kansas second touchdown came in the last half. Rice caught Deatheridge’s quarterback kAk, circled around and lodged through az least half a dozen Missouri players and planted the ball between the goal postsl The lineup: Il

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  The Salt Lake herald, Salt Lake City [Utah], November 27, 1908, page 6

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  KANSAS, 10; MISSOURI, 4. Latter Scores Against Jayhawkcrs for First Time Since 1902, Kansas City Nov. 8-Kansas uniyersity eleven here this afternoon again defeated Missouri university 10 10 4, in one of the fiercest struggles ever put up by these teams in the eighteen years of their contests. At the beginning of the game, Missouri seemed to have a shade the bet ter of the argument. Time. after time her heavy players crashed through Kansas goal before the ball had been in play fif- By series of hard rushes they carried the ball to within striking distance of the Kansas goal before the ball had been fifteen minutes. On the second try, Missouri secured a goal from placement-the first made against the Kansans SINGS 1902. 1t was after this score that the Kansas team Fingered up and began TO play the heady. Veteran-like football which ST. fenced Missourfs rooters’ shouts.

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  The Roswell daily record. (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, New Mexico, November 27, 1908, page 1

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  dozen times, but could not mold the pace He weakened in the last mile. Another Marathon Race. Yonkers, N. Y, Nov. 26.-The Thanksgiving Marathon race. 25 miles over the hills, was won today by ]. F. Crowley, of the Irish-American Athletic Club, New York Time: 2 hrs. 49 min. There were 126 starters. Englishman Won Prize Fight. Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 26.-Freddie Welsh, the English light weight cham pion, won the decision over Abe Attel in a fifteen round fight here last night. Welsh had the best of Attel all the way through. Football Games. Philadelphia, Pa, Nov 26.-Ffnal score: Pennsylvania, 1T; Cornell, 4. Kansas City, Nov. 26.-Final score in University football game: Kansas, 10: Missouri. 4.

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  The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, November 27, 1908, page 1

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  MARVIN Foot Ball Scores. At Des Moines--Ames 10; Drake, 6. At lndianapolis-Ro Polytechnic, 6; Butler, 6. At Kansas City-Kansas 10 Missouri 4. At Columbus-ohio State University, 10; Kenyon, g.. At Denver-University of Colorado, Is; Colorado State School of Music. o.. At st. Louis-Carlisle, II; st. Louis, University. 0. At Lincoln-Nebraska 81; Wabash, At Characterization 10; Haskell, 10. At Galesburg- Lombard 5; Knox, 0. At Chicago-Depaul As; Carroll Col lege, 5. At Philadelphia-Pen II; Cornell, 4. At Pittsburg Carnegie Technical School, o; Washington and Jefferson, 80.

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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 104 since this game.