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Drake vs. Kansas

Drake and Kansas have 16 meetings on file, the first in 1910; Kansas leads the series 9–⁠6–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Drake 5–⁠4.

Drake wins
6
Kansas wins
9
Ties
1
Earliest on file
1910
Longest streak
4 Kansas
Current streak
1 Kansas
Last 10 meetings
Drake 5–⁠4
Most recent
1940

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠5
1920s4–⁠3–⁠1
1930s1–⁠0
1940s0–⁠1
Average margin
9.7 points; 9 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Drake
4–⁠2–⁠1 Drake’s record at home
At Kansas
7–⁠2 Kansas’s record at home
Shutouts
7

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Drake’s biggest win1926: Drake 13, Kansas 0by 13 points
  2. Kansas’s biggest win1914: Kansas 32, Drake 7by 25 points
  3. Upset1921: Drake 15, Kansas 7Drake had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Coach against coach

YearsDrakeSeriesKansas
1921–⁠1925Ossie Solem3–⁠1–⁠1Potsy Clark

Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Drake’s side (Solem 3–⁠1–⁠1 against Clark). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Drake and Kansas, 1910 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

From the newspapers

  • The The Norfolk weekly news-journal's story of the 1910 game: Scores of Football Games.

    1910 · The Norfolk weekly news-journal, Nebraska, Oct 28, 1910

  • The The daily Gate City's story of the 1912 game: DRAKE BEATS KANSAS IN OLD STYLE GAME Beef and Muscle Used More Than Head Work by Kansas and Drake Wins Six to Nothing.

    1912 · The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Oct 20, 1912

  • The Omaha daily bee's story of the 1914 game: DRAKE EASY FOR KANSAS Jayhawkers Trim Bulldogs by Thir- ty-Two to Seven Score. GAME RATHER UNINTEREsTTNG Both Teams Play Old style Foot Hall Almost Continuously--- shearer Makes Only Touch down for HIS Team.

    1914 · Omaha daily bee, Omaha [Neb.], Oct 18, 1914

  • The Albuquerque morning journal's story of the 1915 game: DRAKE FALLS BEFORE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

    1915 · Albuquerque morning journal, Albuquerque, N.M., Oct 17, 1915

  • The The Columbia evening Missourian's story of the 1921 game: AERIAL Skill. OF DRAKE Is IMPENDING Victory Over Kansas Proves Canders No Second-Rate Valley Conference Contender. DEFENSIVE SHIFT USED Remarkable Series of Passes Score Touchdown in Is Seconds-Line Has Endurance.

    1921 · The Columbia evening Missourian, Oct 20, 1921

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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Oct 12, 1940Kansas 20, Drake 6at Kansas
Sep 29, 1939Drake 12, Kansas 6at Drake
Oct 29, 1927Kansas 7, Drake 6at Kansas
Oct 30, 1926Drake 13, Kansas 0at Drake
Oct 31, 1925Drake 7, Kansas 0at Kansas
Nov 8, 1924Drake 6, Kansas 6at Drake
Nov 17, 1923Kansas 17, Drake 0at Kansas
Oct 14, 1922Drake 6, Kansas 0at Drake
Oct 15, 1921Drake 15, Kansas 7at Kansas
Oct 16, 1920Kansas 7, Drake 3at Kansas
Oct 16, 1915Kansas 30, Drake 7at Kansas
Oct 17, 1914Kansas 32, Drake 7at Drake
Oct 18, 1913Kansas 11, Drake 0at Kansas
Oct 19, 1912Drake 6, Kansas 0at Drake
Oct 28, 1911Kansas 11, Drake 3at Kansas
Oct 22, 1910Kansas 6, Drake 0at Drake

Every game is listed as played on the field.