Kansas at Oklahoma
Saturday, October 30, 1915 Share
Oklahoma beat Kansas 23–14. It was their 13th meeting; after it, Kansas led the series 8–4–1.
Final
In the newspapers

The Oklahoma City times, Oklahoma City, Okla., November 1, 1915, page 8
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Dizzy Heights in Football World Reached by Oklahoma All Victorious Team Is Almost Certainty and Can Kansas But Trim Nebraska, There Will Be No Limit to the Claims Which Can Be Made by the Sooners not to be realized Oklahoma beat Missouri decisiNcly and the saltwater team was beaten In clean cut game at Missouri *. t. took fall OUT OF the Kansas Aggies. VINO also played a scorelcss tie with Missouri T., which should dispose Of that aggregatlou. For Henry Kendall and Arkansas L., there Is seemingly such preponderancc OF superiority In ia Vor Of the SuOners that nothing short OF a catycltsm, or % hurricane behind them, should ALLOW them 20 take ovens warriors into camp. Everyone On oklahoma IS pulling FOR the kauslus To beat Nebraska when those teams meet two weeks from last SATURDAY. Should this he done, Oklahoma might rIghtfully claim premier hunOrs over an teams In the west and an equality with any Big Nine team Ncbraskus defeat OF Notrr Dame being taken into consideratiou There In more than II small chance for this dream 10 come true. Olrott will have finished team for Nebraska CwI-+-it he did not have tu throw against the S’snersl Captain James WI be In the game. as will Keeling Lindsey Will he “A whole man and Fast the flash who tore through Oklahoma I’m the last quarter, win start and finish barring accidents. However. Jumbo Steihm has “A wonderful aggregation at the Neuraska capital, and the odds arc all lu favor Of his team again winning the I..tg played consistently throughout the season and on present indications. has almost the same chance to win the remainder OF It’s games as mas tho Sooner team. SO much for ifs and uuds Al though columns have been written about the game at Norman SATURDAY and sport and special writer’s have exhausted vOcabularies In prlislng tho SOoners, there still remains some thing 10 be said for both teams Had the weather been 80 degrees cooler, had Captain James and Keeling ~ Kansas been In the game md had not the Kansas coaches made the ulstak” “ holding l.. Gillespie and | Fast out in the first halt with the / idea Ot saving them fUr Nebraska, things might have been different Again had Montgomery not been | knocked out early In the game. had Fields not been hurt and had Nc | Nmu not received broken wrist aud II strained back. still another story might have been told IL would be difficult TO imagining Mccain play Ing more brilliant game. had he been uninjured, M no greater eyhiblton WAS ever staged by COurtwright Reeds or Capshaw, than was shown | by ovens wonderful little halfback In the tussle with the heefy North erners Hap johnson, Captain geyer and W Holt. were also out standing stars “ the purest ray Sc rene, although Il is little short Oi llbel To single out one or few meu from owens team and give them rs peclal honors Each man played stcllar football. and we venture m, prediction that there In not frsl string man on the Sooner team thai could not find place on any yol’eg, team In the land. The Kansas coaches, true 10 rhcu designation NJ good sports. had u. excuses to offer. no alihis TO present ThuE stated freely and without equiv l.Huuu mat the better team mad WON bHgh ~ them. however. could mohelp hut hewAil those two disastrou fumhlcs az the south end OF the field / which cost Kansas a touchdown anD gave one TO the Sooners ON ‘hI lO-yRrd line. four downs tO go fhO Blue team made two muffs that eos them 20 wards and the ball hmm, diately after which Geyer pulled 6O-yard forward pass which resu’tnD m Il touchdown These fumhles. am, poorer tackling than the team hl done this year. together with Iu weather and too much water cousu iutcd the consolation that was avail able for wearers of the red and blue In the final analysis Go quo. the efficiency experts and hig hus ness hugs) all honor goes ~ nr Hcuuie owen The writer WAS l norman on the first day the Soon rry were out Aside from Ctun Geycr. Hap Johnson. rlpl1s un Montgomery tfor the Uutt bows thu had announced their intention u not coming hRCk things looked v,i indigo Indeed Rut patience then and wonderful driving power nr ability 20 iustll football kuowIpdp into Inexperienced heads later mad the perfect machine which went m’ action Saturday. SOme NJ these daN tnnd KanHns pretty near dll n n. YEAR, some school will mpks OW, an offer he win not me- able tn p. fuse, and then. truly win % o. rel. lze that “A one-nrmcd little lightweight has done more for that school Tina any man OF set NJ men since IN first student was enrolled 1t Scot man.

The Daily Ardmoreite. (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, Oklahoma, October 31, 1915, page 1
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S0ONERS WIN FROM KANSAS JAYHAWKERS OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL TEAM CONTINUES CLEAN RECORD, DE- FEATlNG KANSAS AT NORMAN SATURDAY. Norman. Okla, Oct. 3O.-Before the largest crowd that ever witnessed a football game in Oklahoma, the Okla homa university team this afternoon defeated Kansas “a to IA. Both teams entered the game conf dent Of success, but in expectation of a hard battle Norman is wild with joy over the victory and is celebrating the victory tonight as never before. Quarterback Johnson was the star of today’s Sooner victory over KAN sas.
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)
Oklahoma 70% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Kansas–Oklahoma gameOklahoma leads 80–28–6 in 114 meetings, counting the 101 since this game.
| 2023 | Kansas 38, Oklahoma 33 | |
| 2022 | Oklahoma 52, Kansas 42 | |
| 2021 | Oklahoma 35, Kansas 23 | |
| 2020 | Oklahoma 62, Kansas 9 | |
| 2019 | Oklahoma 45, Kansas 20 | |
| 2018 | Oklahoma 55, Kansas 40 |
Around this game
Kansas
- Next gamevs. WashburnNov. 6, 1915
- SeasonKansas in 1915
- ProgramKansas history and records
Oklahoma
- Next gameat TulsaNov. 6, 1915
- SeasonOklahoma in 1915
- ProgramOklahoma history and records

