Kansas at Missouri

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  Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], November 26, 1915, page 12

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  KANSAS HUMBLES MISSOURI ELEY Jayhawkers, With Heavy Baohf Have Advantage in Game Played in Downpour. FINAL SCORE Is EIGHT TO COLUMBIA, Mo, Nov. 25.-Kansa feated Missouri today. s TO 6, in n oil pour OF rain. The heavy field was a vantage for Kansas, whose heavy “ hurled themselves at the Tigers lin, brought the ball close enough TO souris goal for Lindsey. the Kansas back. to kick two field goals, The Jayhawkers’ count was a safety III first quarter Missourrs only count I in the third period, when Captain man recovered Kansas tumble sped to q touchdown. Kansas won the toss and chose west goal. with the wind at its The game began in a downpour OF Woods Returns the Ball. Groves for Missouri kicked off yards and Wood returned tho ball fit Reber failed to gain around right Lindsey punted forty yards. Pittam a long forward pass, which Wood cepted and ran back ten yards. Ks ball on Missouri’s forty-yard line. ! Steady plunglng carried the Jayt ers to the thlrty-yard line. Wood I away around Missouri’s left end u Tiger ten-yard line. Kansas was putt to the twenty-five yard line on a PEI A forward pass. Lindsey to Wood, g, ten yards. Lindsey missed drop from the twelve-yard line. |, II was a touehback for Missouri Tigers put che ball IN play on twenty-yard line. on a punt the Mi. center made q bad pass, the ball r, over the Missouri goal line, where1 souri, downed It for q safety. seorel Kansas. 2; Missouri. 0. Drops the Ball. Missouri put the ball back in plf the twenty-yard line. where after Intellectual attempts at the Kansas Pittam punted forty yards to y Twice forward passes, Lindsey to 4 gave Heath a clear stretch OF the but he dropped the ball each time. sas recovered the ball on Miss twenty-yard line, where the ~ ended. Score; Kansas, 2; Missouri, Lindsey wicked off forty-five yah Stankosky, who returned twelve Il Fast recovered a Missouri fumbe Missouri’s thirty-five yard line. IA hit the Tiger line ineffectively andi souri, took the ball on downs. Kansas was penalized five yart offside plays. Rider made five Missouri was penalized fifteen var holding. Pittam punted twen’ yards. Gains Eight Yards. A forward pass. Lindsey to gained eight yards. Lindsey kicl field goal from the fifteen yard II Line plunges took the oval to H. yard line, where Lindsey dropped /, and sent another field goal betwee, Missouri goal posts as the period . Score: Kansas. 8; Missouri, 0. After a few plays in the third du Speelman, Missouri’s captain. reco a Kansas tumble and raced thirt. yards for q touchdown. The goal missed. Score: Kansas. 8; Missouri Fourth period: Giltner replaced Missouri made thirty yards on = fol pass. Collins TO Giltner. Leppy rer ! Pittam. Lindsey intercepted a Mi; forward pass and It was the Jayhav ball on tho Kansas thirty-five yard after an exchange Of punts. Kansas pushed the ball to the souris twenty yard line on straight ball. There Lindsey missed an at at a field goal. With only two mi to play Simpson, Missouri’s char hurdIer, went into the game. Mi, punted out OF danger. The ball W midfield when the game ended. score; Kansas. s; Missouri. 9. The lineup:

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  South Bend news-times, South Bend, Ind., November 26, 1915, page 10

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  PLAY IN CLOUDBURST COLUMBIA. Mo. Nov. 26.-Playing in a veritable cloudburst which turned the field into a sea Of mud and drove two-thirds of the spec tatOrs away early in the game. Kan sas defeated MissOmi Thursday. 8 TO 6. A safety cOred Nv Kansas in the first period proved the deciding factor. 1t was made when a for ward pass sailed over Pittman’s head and ne fell on the ball behind his goal line. In the second period Lindsey kicked two field goals from the Is and 25-yard lines. capt. Speelman made Missouri’s only points when he recovered a tumble in the third period and raced 50 yards for a touchdown.

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], November 26, 1915, page 1

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  Kansas Eleven Beats the Missouri Team Columbia. No, Nov. 25.-The Uni versity Of Kansas football eleven defeated Missouri here this afternoon by score of 20 8. The game was played in a downpour OF rain.

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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 97 since this game.