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Border War (Kansas vs Missouri)
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|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background: #CCCCCC;" | Kansas Jayhawks–Missouri Tigers
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center" |
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center" | Border War logo used from 2002–2004, prior to the rivalry's branding change to "Border Showdown"
|-
{| style="background: none; width: 20em; margin: 0 auto;"
|-
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" colspan="2" | Football
|-
| First Meeting || October 31, 1891
|-
| Games Played || 120
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | All-time series || disputed:
MU 57-54-9
(reflected by MU and Big 8)
or MU 56-55-9
(reflected by KU and NCAA)
|-
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" colspan="2" | Men's Basketball
|-
| First Meeting || March 11, 1907
|-
| Games Played || 265
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | All-time series || Kansas leads 171-94
|-
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" colspan="2" | Baseball
|-
| First Meeting || 1899 or 1901 (disputed)
|-
| Games Played || 337 or 321 (disputed)
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | All-time series || Missouri leads 212-123-2 or Missouri leads 195-124-2 (disputed)
|}
The Border War (officially branded as the M&I Bank Border Showdown for sponsorship reasons) is the name of an intense rivalry between the University of Missouri
and University of Kansas
, the Missouri Tigers
and the Kansas Jayhawks
.
. When the Civil War
broke out, the animosity that developed during the Kansas territorial period erupted in particularly vicious fighting. In the opening year of the war, six Missouri towns (the largest being Osceola
) and large swaths of the western Missouri country side were plundered and burned by various forces from Kansas. These attacks led to a retaliatory raid on Lawrence, Kansas two years later (Lawrence Massacre), which in turn led to the infamous General Order No. 11 (1863), the forced depopulation of several western Missouri counties. The raid on Lawrence was led by William Quantrill
, a Confederate guerrilla born in Ohio who had formed his bushwhacker
group at the end of 1861. At the time the Civil War broke out, Quantrill was a resident of Lawarence, Kansas teaching school. SI.com supervising producer Dan George summed up the rivalry by stating "It's more than the schools -- it's a state thing going back to before the Civil War, when William Quantrill
's Confederate guerillas burned Lawrence and murdered nearly 200 people. Neither Missouri nor Kansas folks have forgotten it." Those on the Missouri side are quick to point out that the Jayhawkers were guilty of the same things - crossing into Missouri, leading brutal raids and burning towns, and that Quantrill was part of a group that almost burned down Columbia
, the home of the University of Missouri, due to it being a Union stronghold.
The early athletic matches between the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri are said to have helped aid both states in the healing process following the civil war. The athletic rivalry started off with a bang when the University of Kansas chose to name their athletic team the Jayhawkers (now Jayhawks), the same term that had been used to describe the unsavory assortment of outlaws, independent military bands, and rogue Union troops that had plundered and burned their way through western Missouri just 30 years earlier.
Over the years, the series has developed into one of the most bitter and hateful rivalries in college sports. Even the coaches have gotten into the rivalry. Former Kansas football coach Don Fambrough
, when referred to a physician across the state line in Kansas City, Missouri, for treatment, exclaimed "I'll die first!": not to be outdone, Missouri's former basketball coach Norm Stewart
would traditionally have his players stay in Kansas City, Missouri
, before playing at Kansas, going so far as to require the team bus to buy its gasoline at a Missouri filling station and reprimanding players who ate in Kansas, as he did not want to put any money into Kansas' economy.
The 2007 football season brought the origins of the rivalry between the two states back into the spotlight. A t-shirt created by a Missouri alumnus gained national attention with its reference to Quantrill's Raid of 1863. The shirt depicted the burning of Lawrence in 1863 following the raid of William Quantrill
and his Bushwhackers against the Jayhawker
s of Kansas. The image of Lawrence burning was paired with the word “Scoreboard” and a Mizzou logo. On the back of the shirts, William Quantrill was quoted, saying "Our cause is just, our enemies many." Some Kansas fans interpreted these shirts as supporting slavery. KU supporters returned fire with a shirt depicting abolitionist John Brown
with the words, “Kansas: Protecting America from Missouri since 1854.”
stated, "We feel that in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and the ensuing events around the world, it is inappropriate to use the term ‘war' to describe intercollegiate athletics events." Players, students, alumni, and fans have failed to adopt the new name of the rivalry, and even media outlets such as Sports Illustrated
and NBC
continue to refer to the rivalry as the Border War. Former Kansas coach Don Fambrough
expressed his disapproval for the rivalry's politically correct "Border Showdown" rebranding by saying, "It's a goddamn war. And they started it!"
|+ Border Showdown
|-
! Missouri (7) || Kansas (2)
|-
|valign="top"| 2003, 2005
2007, 2008
2009, 2010, 2011
|valign="top"| 2004, 2006
|}
Beginning in the 2002–2003 season, the series was memorialized in a sponsored contest, under which points were awarded for athletic contests between the two schools. Only sports where both schools compete are eligible for the contests, and because Kansas fields fewer teams than Missouri, several of Missouri's sports (such as gymnastics, men's swimming and wrestling) do not count in the Border Showdown statistics. Bonus points are awarded for matchups that take place in post-season competition (Big 12 or NCAA tournaments). Between 0.5 and 3.0 points are awarded per matchup, with approximately 24-27 matchups taking place per academic year. The Border Showdown moniker is applied most publicly to the annual football
and basketball
games. Missouri currently leads the Showdown series 7-2.
Through the end of the 2009 season, Missouri has an all-time football record of 612-511-52 (.545), with 26 bowl games and 12 bowl victories, while Kansas, through 2009 has an all-time record of 568-550-58 (.508), with 6 bowl victories in 12 bowl games.
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The drum trophy originated in 1937 when MU's Kansas City Alumni Association in cooperation with the Kansas University Lettermen's Association decided to present an authentic Indian tom-tom drum
each Thanksgiving to the winner of the Kansas-Missouri football game. The decision was finalized at annual Homecoming luncheon of the M Men's Club at Rothwell Gymnasium on November 13, 1937. The MU Kansas City Alumni Association made arrangements for the drum to be built by Osage Indians, because they were more representative of the two states than any other tribe. The drum remained in Missouri's possession for the first few years until the trophy was briefly forgotten during war time. The tradition resumed on an annual basis in 1947, and the MU and KU circles of Omicron Delta Kappa
served as caretakers of the drum throughout most of its history.
When the trophy disappeared in the 1980s, the Taos
Indians of New Mexico built a new one. The original trophy was later recovered in a Read Hall basement in Columbia under a pile of boxes and it is now in the College Football Hall of Fame
.
In 1999, at the urging of Kansas the drum was replaced again with a bass drum and the second drum became the property of the Mizzou Alumni Association.
The Kansas and Missouri athletics and alumni associations’ logos are on opposite ends. While in Missouri the Alumni Association and Student Board now keep the trophy. While in Kansas it is now kept by the Student Alumni Association in the Booth Family Hall of Fame there.
Trophy, in honor of the late Chiefs
owner who long envisioned bringing the Border War to Arrowhead. This should not be confused with the Lamar Hunt
Trophy which is presented to the NFL's AFC
champions every year.
Going into the 1960 game, Missouri (9–0, #1 nationally ranked) was known for their very stingy defense that, until giving up 19 points to Oklahoma the week before the Border War match-up, had not allowed a team to reach double digits all season. They boasted three shutouts. Their offense relied heavily on a wide sweep to the right with speedsters Norris Stevenson and Mel West in the backfield. It was run out of a combination of the T-formation and the old Single Wing. The term “student body right” is often used to describe the USC sweep play in the mid to late 1960s, but that phrase was created to describe Missouri’s wide sweep. Kansas (6–2, ranked #11, with their 2 losses coming to #1 Syracuse, 14-7, and at #1 Iowa, 21-7) was making history that day by becoming the first team to face three #1 teams in the same season. Kansas had a pretty good defense of their own, surrendering a mere 9.1 points per game with two shutouts that season. Kansas was also loaded in the backfield. Even without Coan, Kansas' backfield consisted of three future NFL draft picks: two-time All-American John Hadl at QB had led the Big 8 in all-purpose yardage as a RB in the 1959 season; halfback Curtis McClinton (three-time All-Big 8), and Doyle Schick at fullback.
On November 19, 1960, in front of a then record crowd of 43,000 in Columbia, Kansas won the game against Missouri by a score of 23–7. The defenses lived up to their billing, leading to a scoreless tie at the half. Kansas had threatened twice in the first half, but had turned the ball over on downs after Missouri’s defense made a formidable goal line stand. Later, after advancing to Missouri's 12, Missouri’s defense again tightened, sacking Hadl for a huge loss, and Kansas missed the ensuing FG. Missouri never threatened on offense in the first half. The Kansas defense was keying hard on the sweep. In fact, it wasn’t until midway through the 3rd quarter that Missouri was even able to achieve a first down. Even then, Missouri didn't achieve their 2nd first down until the fourth quarter. Kansas scored first in the second half with a field goal. Then, after a Missouri fumble deep in Tiger territory, Hadl hit Coan on a TD pass. Near the end of the 3rd, Kansas went on the games only sustained drive by either team, 69 yards on 13 plays. It was capped with a 2-yard TD run by Coan. Missouri finally got on the board with 5:24 remaining in the game, making the score 17–7. The final Kansas touchdown came after KU picked off a desperation Missouri pass, and then passed for a score with less than a minute left. Coan clearly played a role in the Kansas victory with 2 touchdowns and 67 yards on 9 carries, but many believe it was the Kansas defense that was the deciding factor. Dan Devine stated "the better team won", but also cited Coan as a key factor in the game.
Kansas was awarded the Big 8 championship following the game. However, on December 8, 1960, the Big 8 retroactively forfeited the game and the Big 8 Championship to Missouri due to the Big 8 voting Bert Coan ineligible, on a 5–3 vote.
The background to this ruling was as follows. Coan had transferred to KU in the fall of 1959 from TCU after a reported disagreement with the TCU trainer-track coach. At TCU's urging, the NCAA investigated the matter and it was revealed Coan had taken a plane trip to an all-star game in the summer of 1959, paid for by KU donor and AFL
co-founder Bud Adams
. On October 26, 1960, KU was placed on 1 year NCAA probation because the NCAA declared that KU alumni indulged in illegal recruiting practices consisting of "excessive entertainment" in the recruitment of Coan. Adams denied he took Coan to the game as a recruit. Initially, Coan also denied any impropriety in his transfer to KU, but later in a 2007 interview he admitted he had indeed been illegally recruited by Adams. No KU officials were ever found to be directly involved in the ordeal. While Coan was not ruled ineligible by the NCAA, the NCAA finding triggered questions of Coan's eligibility in light of conference rules. One conference rule banned off-campus recruiting trips; another rule specified that any athlete recruited in violation of the ban would be ineligible. After KU was placed on NCAA probation, KU received a phone call from the University of Nebraska, their next conference opponent, questioning Coan's eligibility. It is alleged Nebraska had earlier received a letter from Missouri's Don Faurot concerning Coan. KU sought to obtain a ruling from the conference at that time, but was instead told the matter would be taken up at the post-season conference meeting. KU took the position that the NCAA had mistakenly concluded Coan was a prospective student-athlete at the time of the trip with Adams, and thus there had been no infraction of conference rules. Coan did not play in KU's game against Nebraska however, due to injury.
At the post-season conference meeting in December, allegedly at the behest of MU's Don Faurot, but in accordance with the conference's response to KU's inquiry in November, the Big 8 faculty committee took up the issue of Bert Coan. Based upon the NCAA's ruling that a representative of KU's athletic interests, Bud Adams, had transported Coan from his home in Texas to Chicago to view a football all-star game, the conference's ruling committee ruled, by a vote of 5–3, that KU had violated a conference ban on off-campus recruiting. By conference rule, any student-athlete that was recruited in violation of this ban was automatically ineligible. The committee accordingly took up the matter of the period in which Coan would be ineligible. The committee initially defeated two separate motions to declare Coan ineligible for the entire 1961 season, before finally declaring him ineligible for a period of one year starting from the date of the NCAA finding by a vote of 6-2. The Big 8 then ordered KU to forfeit the two games in which Coan had played following the NCAA finding (versus Colorado and Missouri). By virtue of the forfeits, the conference championship was awarded to Missouri.
Despite the Big 8's official ruling on the matter, the reactions from many on all sides were not in agreement with the Big 8 committee in the end. When asked at the Look All-America gathering in New York City Missouri All-American, Danny LaRose said, "It'll always be a 9-1 season as far as I'm concerned. And I think the other players will feel that way, too." However, LaRose also expressed his admiration of the Big Eight “for standing up for what was right – enforcing its own rules.” Also at the gathering, Colorado All-American guard Joe Romig echoed similar feelings when he said, "I don't care what the NCAA or the Big Eight does. We lost the game at Kansas. Nothing will change that." Meanwhile, Kansas All-American quarterback John Hadl expressed more concern about his teammate when asked at the All-America gathering and had this to say, "He's a good guy. I hope it doesn't hit him too hard." Missouri head coach Dan Devine expressed his apparent disappointment in the process adopted by the Big 8 when he said, "This is the worst thing that could happen in inter-collegiate athletics. I mean the fact that they were playing a boy not knowing he was ineligible. That should have been determined before he played." For his part then executive secretary of the Big 8, Reaves Peters, said the case was the "toughest case to come before us in history."
Colorado does not count this forfeit as a win in their record books. Kansas fans also cite a 1999 NCAA subcommittee to defend KU's position, where the subcommittee stated that "forfeited contests do not count as a loss and that the game will stand as played on the field." While KU claims the MU game as a win, they do not claim the conference championship that the conference also ordered them to forfeit.
Ultimately the on-field loss to Kansas cost Missouri the 1960 national championship. The final AP poll was released one week after the game (before the decision was made to force Kansas to forfeit) and the 8–1 Minnesota Gophers took Missouri's spot at number one in the poll, giving them the AP National Championship. Missouri went on to finish the 1960 season 11–0 (10-1) including a win over Navy in the Orange Bowl, while Minnesota finished 8-2 with a loss in the Rose Bowl.
Kansas victories are shaded ██ blue. Ties are in WHITE. Missouri victories shaded in ██ gold.
{| class="wikitable"
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Date
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Site
!style="background: #e3e3e3;" colspan=2|Winning team
!style="background: #e3e3e3;" colspan=2|Losing team
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Series
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Attendance
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|October 31, 1891 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||22 || align=left|Missouri||10
|KU 1-0
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 24, 1892 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||12 || align=left|Missouri||4
|KU 2-0
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 29, 1893 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||12 || align=left|Kansas||4
|KU 2-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 31, 1894 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||18 || align=left|Missouri||12
|KU 3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 28, 1895 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||10 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 3-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 26, 1896 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||30 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 4-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1897 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||16 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 5-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 24, 1898 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||12 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 6-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 30, 1899 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||34 || align=left|Missouri||6
|KU 7-2
|
|-align=center
|November 29, 1900 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||6 || align=left|Missouri||6
|KU 7-2-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 28, 1901 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||18 || align=left|Kansas||12
|KU 7-3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 29, 1902 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||17 || align=left|Missouri||5
|KU 8-3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 26, 1903 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||5 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 9-3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1904 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||29 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 10-3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 30, 1905 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||24 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 11-3-1
|
|-align=center
|November 29, 1906 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||0 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 11-3-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 28, 1907 || St. Joseph, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||4 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 12-3-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 28, 1908 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||10 || align=left|Missouri||4
|KU 13-3-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 1909 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||12 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 13-4-2
|
|-align=center
|November 24, 1910 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||5 || align=left|Missouri||5
|KU 13-4-3
|
|-align=center
|November 25, 1911 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||3 || align=left|Missouri||3
|KU 13-4-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1912 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||12 || align=left|Missouri||3
|KU 14-4-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1913 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||3 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 14-5-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1914 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||10 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 14-6-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1915 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||8 || align=left|Missouri||6
|KU 15-6-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 30, 1916 || Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||13 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 15-7-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 29, 1917 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||27 || align=left|Missouri||3
|KU 16-7-4
|
|-align=center
|19181 ||
|align=left|Kansas||- || align=left|Missouri||-
|KU 16-7-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 29, 1919 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||13 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 16-8-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 27, 1920 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||16 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 16-9-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 24, 1921 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||15 || align=left|Missouri||9
|KU 17-9-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 30, 1922 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||9 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 17-10-4
|
|-align=center
|November 29, 1923 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||3 || align=left|Kansas||3
|KU 17-10-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 27, 1924 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||14 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 17-11-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 21, 1925 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||10 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 18-11-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 20, 1926 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||15 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 18-12-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1927 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||14 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 19-12-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 1928 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||25 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 19-13-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1929 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||7 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 19-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 22, 1930 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||32 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 20-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 21, 1931 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||14 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 21-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 12, 1932 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||7 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 22-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 30, 1933 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||27 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 23-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 29, 1934 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||20 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 24-14-5
|
|-align=center
|November 28, 1935 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||0 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 24-14-6
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 26, 1936 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||19 || align=left|Kansas||2
|KU 24-15-6
|
|-align=center
|November 25, 1937 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||0 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 24-15-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 1938 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||13 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 24-16-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 1939 || Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||20 || align=left|Kansas (10)||0
|KU 24-17-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1940 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||45 || align=left|Kansas||20
|KU 24-18-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1941 || Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||45 || align=left|Kansas (8)||6
|KU 24-19-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 26, 1942 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||42 || align=left|Kansas||13
|KU 24-20-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 1943 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||20 || align=left|Missouri||9
|KU 25-20-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1944 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||28 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 25-21-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 1945 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri (16)||33 || align=left|Kansas||12
|KU 25-22-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 28, 1946 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||20 || align=left|Missouri||19
|KU 26-22-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 22, 1947 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas (17)||20 || align=left|Missouri||14
|KU 27-22-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 1948 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||21 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 27-23-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 19, 1949 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||34 || align=left|Kansas||28
|KU 27-24-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1950 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||20 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 27-25-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|December 1, 1951 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||41 || align=left|Missouri||28
|KU 28-25-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1952 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||20 || align=left|Kansas (18)||19
|KU 28-26-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1953 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||10 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 28-27-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 20, 1954 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||41 || align=left|Kansas||18
|TIE 28-28-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1955 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||13 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 29-28-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|December 1, 1956 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||15 || align=left|Kansas||13
|TIE 29-29-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1957 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||9 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 30-29-7
|
|-align=center
|November 22, 1958 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||13 || align=left|Missouri||13
|KU 30-29-8
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1959 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||13 || align=left|Kansas||9
|TIE 30-30-8
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|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1960 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas (11)||23 || align=left|Missouri (1)||7
|KU 31-30-82
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 1961 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||10 || align=left|Kansas||7
|TIE 31-31-8
|
|-align=center
|November 24, 1962 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||3 || align=left|Missouri||3
|TIE 31-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1963 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||9 || align=left|Kansas||6
|MU 32-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1964 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||34 || align=left|Kansas||14
|MU 33-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 20, 1965 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||44 || align=left|Kansas||20
|MU 34-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 19, 1966 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||7 || align=left|Kansas||0
|MU 35-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1967 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||17 || align=left|Missouri||6
|MU 35-32-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1968 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||21 || align=left|Missouri||19
|MU 35-33-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1969 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||69 || align=left|Kansas||21
|MU 36-33-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1970 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||28 || align=left|Kansas||17
|MU 37-33-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 1971 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||7 || align=left|Missouri||2
|MU 37-34-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1972 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||28 || align=left|Missouri||17
|MU 37-35-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 24, 1973 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||14 || align=left|Missouri||13
|MU 37-36-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1974 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||27 || align=left|Kansas||3
|MU 38-36-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 22, 1975 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||42 || align=left|Missouri||24
|MU 38-37-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 1976 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||41 || align=left|Missouri||14
|TIE 38-38-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1977 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||24 || align=left|Missouri||22
|KU 39-38-9
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|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 11, 1978 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||48 || align=left|Kansas||0
|TIE 39-39-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 1979 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||55 || align=left|Kansas||7
|MU 40-39-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1980 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||31 || align=left|Kansas||6
|MU 41-39-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 21, 1981 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||19 || align=left|Missouri||11
|MU 41-40-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 20, 1982 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||16 || align=left|Kansas||10
|MU 42-40-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1983 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||37 || align=left|Missouri||27
|MU 42-41-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 17, 1984 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||35 || align=left|Missouri||21
|TIE 42-42-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1985 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||34 || align=left|Missouri||20
|KU 43-42-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1986 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||48 || align=left|Kansas||0
|TIE 43-43-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1987 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||19 || align=left|Kansas||7
|MU 44-43-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 19, 1988 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||55 || align=left|Kansas||17
|MU 45-43-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 18, 1989 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||46 || align=left|Missouri||44
|MU 45-44-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 17, 1990 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||31 || align=left|Kansas||21
|MU 46-44-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1991 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||53 || align=left|Missouri||29
|MU 46-45-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1992 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||22 || align=left|Kansas||17
|MU 47-45-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 1993 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||28 || align=left|Missouri||0
|MU 47-46-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1994 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||31 || align=left|Missouri||14
|TIE 47-47-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 4, 1995 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||42 || align=left|Missouri||23
|KU 48-47-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1996 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||42 || align=left|Kansas||25
|TIE 48-48-9
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|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|September 13, 1997 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||15 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 49-48-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|September 12, 1998 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri (25)||41 || align=left|Kansas||23
|TIE 49-49-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|October 23, 1999 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||21 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 50-49-9
|42,300
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|October 14, 2000 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||38 || align=left|Missouri||17
|KU 51-49-9
|61,794
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|October 20, 2001 || Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||38 || align=left|Kansas||34
|KU 51-50-9
|38,500
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|October 26, 2002 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||36 || align=left|Kansas||12
|TIE 51-51-9
|60,287
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|September 27, 2003 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||35 || align=left|Missouri (23)||14
|KU 52-51-9
|50,071
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 2004 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||31 || align=left|Missouri||14
|KU 53-51-9
|53,480
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|October 29, 2005 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||13 || align=left|Missouri||3
|KU 54-51-9
|48,238
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 2006 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||42 || align=left|Kansas||17
|KU 54-52-9
|55,614
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 2007 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri (4)||36 || align=left|Kansas (2)||28
|KU 54-53-9
|80,537
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 29, 2008 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||40 || align=left|Missouri (11) ||37
|KU 55-53-9
|79,123
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 28, 2009 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||41 || align=left|Kansas ||39
|KU 55-54-9
|70,072
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 27, 2010 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri (14)||35 || align=left|Kansas ||7
|TIE 55-55-9
|55,788
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 26, 2011 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri || 24 || align=left|Kansas || 10
|MU 56-55-9
|47,059
|}
1 Game not played in 1918 due to an epidemic
2 Controversial Game - described above (record shown as reflected by NCAA, not Big XII)
* - OT
** - Double OT
NOTE: For games played on neutral floors, KU is listed as the home team, even though this may not have been the case. This is simply due to lack of information on who was the official home team.
|- style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background: #CCCCCC;" | Kansas Jayhawks–Missouri Tigers
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center" |
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center" | Border War logo used from 2002–2004, prior to the rivalry's branding change to "Border Showdown"
|-
{| style="background: none; width: 20em; margin: 0 auto;"
|-
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" colspan="2" | Football
|-
| First Meeting || October 31, 1891
|-
| Games Played || 120
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | All-time series || disputed:
MU 57-54-9
(reflected by MU and Big 8)
or MU 56-55-9
(reflected by KU and NCAA)
|-
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" colspan="2" | Men's Basketball
|-
| First Meeting || March 11, 1907
|-
| Games Played || 265
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | All-time series || Kansas leads 171-94
|-
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" colspan="2" | Baseball
|-
| First Meeting || 1899 or 1901 (disputed)
|-
| Games Played || 337 or 321 (disputed)
|-
| style="vertical-align: top;" | All-time series || Missouri leads 212-123-2 or Missouri leads 195-124-2 (disputed)
|}
The Border War (officially branded as the M&I Bank Border Showdown for sponsorship reasons) is the name of an intense rivalry between the University of Missouri
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...
and University of Kansas
University of Kansas
The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...
, the Missouri Tigers
Missouri Tigers
The Missouri Tigers athletics programs include the extramural and intramural sports teams of the University of Missouri, located in Columbia, Missouri, United States...
and the Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas Jayhawks
The sports teams at the University of Kansas are known as the Jayhawks. They are one of three schools in the state of Kansas that participate in NCAA Division I. The Jayhawks are also a member of the Big 12 Conference...
.
Background
The intense rivalry between the two universities can be traced to the open violence involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery elements that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of Missouri throughout the 1850s. These incidents were attempts by some Missourians (then a slave state) to influence whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. The era of political turbulence and violence has been termed Bleeding KansasBleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri roughly between 1854 and 1858...
. When the Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...
broke out, the animosity that developed during the Kansas territorial period erupted in particularly vicious fighting. In the opening year of the war, six Missouri towns (the largest being Osceola
Osceola, Missouri
Osceola is a city in St. Clair County, Missouri, United States. The population was 835 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of St. Clair County.-History:...
) and large swaths of the western Missouri country side were plundered and burned by various forces from Kansas. These attacks led to a retaliatory raid on Lawrence, Kansas two years later (Lawrence Massacre), which in turn led to the infamous General Order No. 11 (1863), the forced depopulation of several western Missouri counties. The raid on Lawrence was led by William Quantrill
William Quantrill
William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s, which included the infamous raid and sacking of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, Quantrill eventually ended up in...
, a Confederate guerrilla born in Ohio who had formed his bushwhacker
Bushwhacker
Bushwhacking was a form of guerrilla warfare common during the American Revolutionary War, American Civil War and other conflicts in which there are large areas of contested land and few Governmental Resources to control these tracts...
group at the end of 1861. At the time the Civil War broke out, Quantrill was a resident of Lawarence, Kansas teaching school. SI.com supervising producer Dan George summed up the rivalry by stating "It's more than the schools -- it's a state thing going back to before the Civil War, when William Quantrill
William Quantrill
William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s, which included the infamous raid and sacking of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, Quantrill eventually ended up in...
's Confederate guerillas burned Lawrence and murdered nearly 200 people. Neither Missouri nor Kansas folks have forgotten it." Those on the Missouri side are quick to point out that the Jayhawkers were guilty of the same things - crossing into Missouri, leading brutal raids and burning towns, and that Quantrill was part of a group that almost burned down Columbia
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia is the fifth-largest city in Missouri, and the largest city in Mid-Missouri. With a population of 108,500 as of the 2010 Census, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, a region of 164,283 residents. The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the...
, the home of the University of Missouri, due to it being a Union stronghold.
The early athletic matches between the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri are said to have helped aid both states in the healing process following the civil war. The athletic rivalry started off with a bang when the University of Kansas chose to name their athletic team the Jayhawkers (now Jayhawks), the same term that had been used to describe the unsavory assortment of outlaws, independent military bands, and rogue Union troops that had plundered and burned their way through western Missouri just 30 years earlier.
Over the years, the series has developed into one of the most bitter and hateful rivalries in college sports. Even the coaches have gotten into the rivalry. Former Kansas football coach Don Fambrough
Don Fambrough
-External links:...
, when referred to a physician across the state line in Kansas City, Missouri, for treatment, exclaimed "I'll die first!": not to be outdone, Missouri's former basketball coach Norm Stewart
Norm Stewart
Norman E. "Norm)" Stewart is a retired American college basketball coach. He coached at the University of Northern Iowa from 1961 to 1967, but is best known for his career with the University of Missouri from 1967 until 1999. He retired with an overall coaching record of 731-375 in 38 seasons...
would traditionally have his players stay in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
, before playing at Kansas, going so far as to require the team bus to buy its gasoline at a Missouri filling station and reprimanding players who ate in Kansas, as he did not want to put any money into Kansas' economy.
The 2007 football season brought the origins of the rivalry between the two states back into the spotlight. A t-shirt created by a Missouri alumnus gained national attention with its reference to Quantrill's Raid of 1863. The shirt depicted the burning of Lawrence in 1863 following the raid of William Quantrill
William Quantrill
William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s, which included the infamous raid and sacking of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, Quantrill eventually ended up in...
and his Bushwhackers against the Jayhawker
Jayhawker
Jayhawkers is a term that came to prominence just before the American Civil War in Bleeding Kansas, where it was adopted by militant bands affiliated with the free-state cause. These bands, known as "Jayhawkers", were guerrilla fighters who often clashed with pro-slavery groups from Missouri known...
s of Kansas. The image of Lawrence burning was paired with the word “Scoreboard” and a Mizzou logo. On the back of the shirts, William Quantrill was quoted, saying "Our cause is just, our enemies many." Some Kansas fans interpreted these shirts as supporting slavery. KU supporters returned fire with a shirt depicting abolitionist John Brown
John Brown (abolitionist)
John Brown was an American revolutionary abolitionist, who in the 1850s advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to abolish slavery in the United States. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre during which five men were killed, in 1856 in Bleeding Kansas, and made his name in the...
with the words, “Kansas: Protecting America from Missouri since 1854.”
Name change
In 2004 its name was officially changed from Border War to the Border Showdown. KU athletic director Lew PerkinsLew Perkins
Lew Perkins is a former Director of Athletics, most recently at the University of Kansas. Perkins joined KU in June 2003, taking over for Al Bohl...
stated, "We feel that in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and the ensuing events around the world, it is inappropriate to use the term ‘war' to describe intercollegiate athletics events." Players, students, alumni, and fans have failed to adopt the new name of the rivalry, and even media outlets such as Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
and NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
continue to refer to the rivalry as the Border War. Former Kansas coach Don Fambrough
Don Fambrough
-External links:...
expressed his disapproval for the rivalry's politically correct "Border Showdown" rebranding by saying, "It's a goddamn war. And they started it!"
Points system
{| id="toc" style="float:right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center"|+ Border Showdown
|-
! Missouri (7) || Kansas (2)
|-
|valign="top"| 2003, 2005
2007, 2008
2009, 2010, 2011
|valign="top"| 2004, 2006
|}
Beginning in the 2002–2003 season, the series was memorialized in a sponsored contest, under which points were awarded for athletic contests between the two schools. Only sports where both schools compete are eligible for the contests, and because Kansas fields fewer teams than Missouri, several of Missouri's sports (such as gymnastics, men's swimming and wrestling) do not count in the Border Showdown statistics. Bonus points are awarded for matchups that take place in post-season competition (Big 12 or NCAA tournaments). Between 0.5 and 3.0 points are awarded per matchup, with approximately 24-27 matchups taking place per academic year. The Border Showdown moniker is applied most publicly to the annual football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
and basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
games. Missouri currently leads the Showdown series 7-2.
Football
The Missouri-Kansas football series is the second-most-played rivalry in major-college football history. The teams first matched up in football on October 31, 1891. There have been 9 ties in the 120 games played. The game is the oldest college sports rivalry west of the Mississippi River.Through the end of the 2009 season, Missouri has an all-time football record of 612-511-52 (.545), with 26 bowl games and 12 bowl victories, while Kansas, through 2009 has an all-time record of 568-550-58 (.508), with 6 bowl victories in 12 bowl games.
- The Tigers and Jayhawks first met on the gridiron on HalloweenHalloweenHallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
in 1891 in Kansas CityKansas City, MissouriKansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
, Missouri. The Jayhawks pulled out a 22-10 win in that first game.
- In 1909–1910, both squads entered the game undefeated (Missouri at 6-0-1, and Kansas at 8-0). Two dropkick field goals propelled the Tigers to a 12-6 victory, an undefeated season, and a Missouri Valley title.
- Missouri claims the 1911 football game in Columbia, MissouriColumbia, MissouriColumbia is the fifth-largest city in Missouri, and the largest city in Mid-Missouri. With a population of 108,500 as of the 2010 Census, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, a region of 164,283 residents. The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the...
, as the world's first HomecomingHomecomingHomecoming is the tradition of welcoming back alumni of a school. It most commonly refers to a tradition in many universities, colleges and high schools in North America...
.
- 19 of the first 20 games were played in Kansas City, with the 1907 contest played in St. Joseph. In 1911, the game began to be played on the respective college campuses, where it would be played (with the exception of 1944 and 1945, when it was played in Kansas City, Missouri) for the next 94 years. The 1911 game was played in Columbia, Missouri, and alumni from MU were asked to "come home" to Rollins Field, giving rise to the tradition of homecoming. That first homecoming game resulted in a 3-3 tie between the schools.
- Kansas held the early advantage in the series, with a 14-4-4 advantage from 1891 through 1922. The Tigers rebounded with a 10-5-1 record in the next 16 years, but Kansas led 5-0-1 during the next 6 years (1939–1944), holding the Tigers scoreless each year.
- The Tigers led the series for the next 36 years from 1945 through 1980, holding an advantage over Kansas of 20-13-3. During that period, Kansas had two different 3 game winning streaks, while Missouri held winning streaks of 5 games, 4 games, and 3 games (3 times).
- Since 1981 Kansas led the series over Missouri, holding a 16-14 edge. Since the inception of the Big 12 the series is tied at 7-7. With their 35-7 victory in 2010, Missouri won the latest game.
- In late 2006, the schools signed a two-year agreement to play the game at Arrowhead StadiumArrowhead StadiumArrowhead Stadium is a stadium located in Kansas City, Missouri and home to the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs....
in Kansas CityKansas City, MissouriKansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
. While the capacity of the Kansas City ChiefsKansas City ChiefsThe Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...
home ground at Arrowhead (79,451) is much bigger than either Memorial Stadium in Lawrence (50,000) or Faurot FieldFaurot FieldFaurot Field at Memorial Stadium is the home field of the University of Missouri Tigers in Columbia, Missouri. It is primarily used for football. In 1972, Memorial Stadium's playing surface was named Faurot Field in honor of longtime coach Don Faurot. During the offseason, soccer goals are set up...
(71,004), many fans of both schools, and merchants in both Columbia and Lawrence, have expressed reservations about the move, since it requires each to give up a home game. While a much larger percentage of all Jayhawk fans are in the Kansas City metropolitan area than the percentage of all Tiger fans, and many Missouri season ticket holders come from St. Louis, attendance is expected to be relatively even between both schools. In 2008 the Arrowhead series was renewed through at least 2012.
- On November 24, 2007, the two teams entered the game both ranked in the top five in the nation: Kansas at #2 and Missouri at #3. On the heels of #1 LSU's loss the day before, Missouri won the game 36-28, thereby ending the regular season ranked #1 in the nation in both the Bowl Championship SeriesBowl Championship SeriesThe Bowl Championship Series is a selection system that creates five bowl match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , including an opportunity for the top two to compete in the BCS National Championship Game.The BCS relies on a combination of...
and Associated PressAssociated PressThe Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
polls. The game at Arrowhead StadiumArrowhead StadiumArrowhead Stadium is a stadium located in Kansas City, Missouri and home to the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs....
in Kansas CityKansas City, MissouriKansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
, with a near-record 80,537 people (the second-largest crowd in stadium history) in attendance, was the largest TV audience to watch any 2007 regular season game.
- On November 26th, 2011, the final Border War was played at Arrowhead Stadium as the Missouri Tigers announced that they would be moving to the SEC effective July 1st, 2012. Missouri won the final Border War game and they also won the entire series with a record of 56-55-9.
Indian War Drum
The winner of the football game receives the informally arranged Indian War Drum traveling trophy.The drum trophy originated in 1937 when MU's Kansas City Alumni Association in cooperation with the Kansas University Lettermen's Association decided to present an authentic Indian tom-tom drum
Tom-tom drum
A tom-tom drum is a cylindrical drum with no snare.Although "tom-tom" is the British term for a child's toy drum, the name came originally from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala; the tom-tom itself comes from Asian or Native American cultures...
each Thanksgiving to the winner of the Kansas-Missouri football game. The decision was finalized at annual Homecoming luncheon of the M Men's Club at Rothwell Gymnasium on November 13, 1937. The MU Kansas City Alumni Association made arrangements for the drum to be built by Osage Indians, because they were more representative of the two states than any other tribe. The drum remained in Missouri's possession for the first few years until the trophy was briefly forgotten during war time. The tradition resumed on an annual basis in 1947, and the MU and KU circles of Omicron Delta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa, or ΟΔΚ, also known as The Circle, or more commonly ODK, is a national leadership honor society. It was founded December 3, 1914, at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, by 15 student and faculty leaders. Chapters, known as Circles, are located on over 300...
served as caretakers of the drum throughout most of its history.
When the trophy disappeared in the 1980s, the Taos
Taos
Taos can meanPlaces*Taos Pueblo, a Native American pueblo, Tua-tah*Taos dialect, a dialect of the Tiwa language*Taos County, New Mexico, United States*Taos, New Mexico, a city, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico...
Indians of New Mexico built a new one. The original trophy was later recovered in a Read Hall basement in Columbia under a pile of boxes and it is now in the College Football Hall of Fame
College Football Hall of Fame
The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...
.
In 1999, at the urging of Kansas the drum was replaced again with a bass drum and the second drum became the property of the Mizzou Alumni Association.
The Kansas and Missouri athletics and alumni associations’ logos are on opposite ends. While in Missouri the Alumni Association and Student Board now keep the trophy. While in Kansas it is now kept by the Student Alumni Association in the Booth Family Hall of Fame there.
Lamar Hunt trophy
Beginning with the 2007 game at Arrowhead, the winner also receives the Lamar HuntLamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt was an American sportsman and promoter of American football, soccer, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee into three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders of the American Football League and Major League Soccer , as well as MLS predecessor the...
Trophy, in honor of the late Chiefs
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...
owner who long envisioned bringing the Border War to Arrowhead. This should not be confused with the Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt
Lamar Hunt was an American sportsman and promoter of American football, soccer, basketball, and ice hockey in the United States and an inductee into three sports' halls of fame. He was one of the founders of the American Football League and Major League Soccer , as well as MLS predecessor the...
Trophy which is presented to the NFL's AFC
American Football Conference
The American Football Conference is one of the two conferences of the National Football League . This conference and its counterpart, the National Football Conference , currently contain 16 teams each, making up the 32 teams of the NFL....
champions every year.
1960 controversy
Although 57–54–9 for MU is the often stated series result, there is an ongoing dispute about whether the 1960 game should have been counted as a win for Kansas, leaving MU in the lead 56–55–9. The Big 8 retroactively forfeited the win to Missouri due to Kansas player Bert Coan being voted ineligible following the 1960 season. The record books of the University of Kansas, and the NCAA, state the record as a win for Kansas, fueling the controversy. Several other publications have referenced the series record more to the favor of Kansas due to the NCAA official record books record of the game as well as Kansas actually winning the game on the field.Going into the 1960 game, Missouri (9–0, #1 nationally ranked) was known for their very stingy defense that, until giving up 19 points to Oklahoma the week before the Border War match-up, had not allowed a team to reach double digits all season. They boasted three shutouts. Their offense relied heavily on a wide sweep to the right with speedsters Norris Stevenson and Mel West in the backfield. It was run out of a combination of the T-formation and the old Single Wing. The term “student body right” is often used to describe the USC sweep play in the mid to late 1960s, but that phrase was created to describe Missouri’s wide sweep. Kansas (6–2, ranked #11, with their 2 losses coming to #1 Syracuse, 14-7, and at #1 Iowa, 21-7) was making history that day by becoming the first team to face three #1 teams in the same season. Kansas had a pretty good defense of their own, surrendering a mere 9.1 points per game with two shutouts that season. Kansas was also loaded in the backfield. Even without Coan, Kansas' backfield consisted of three future NFL draft picks: two-time All-American John Hadl at QB had led the Big 8 in all-purpose yardage as a RB in the 1959 season; halfback Curtis McClinton (three-time All-Big 8), and Doyle Schick at fullback.
On November 19, 1960, in front of a then record crowd of 43,000 in Columbia, Kansas won the game against Missouri by a score of 23–7. The defenses lived up to their billing, leading to a scoreless tie at the half. Kansas had threatened twice in the first half, but had turned the ball over on downs after Missouri’s defense made a formidable goal line stand. Later, after advancing to Missouri's 12, Missouri’s defense again tightened, sacking Hadl for a huge loss, and Kansas missed the ensuing FG. Missouri never threatened on offense in the first half. The Kansas defense was keying hard on the sweep. In fact, it wasn’t until midway through the 3rd quarter that Missouri was even able to achieve a first down. Even then, Missouri didn't achieve their 2nd first down until the fourth quarter. Kansas scored first in the second half with a field goal. Then, after a Missouri fumble deep in Tiger territory, Hadl hit Coan on a TD pass. Near the end of the 3rd, Kansas went on the games only sustained drive by either team, 69 yards on 13 plays. It was capped with a 2-yard TD run by Coan. Missouri finally got on the board with 5:24 remaining in the game, making the score 17–7. The final Kansas touchdown came after KU picked off a desperation Missouri pass, and then passed for a score with less than a minute left. Coan clearly played a role in the Kansas victory with 2 touchdowns and 67 yards on 9 carries, but many believe it was the Kansas defense that was the deciding factor. Dan Devine stated "the better team won", but also cited Coan as a key factor in the game.
Kansas was awarded the Big 8 championship following the game. However, on December 8, 1960, the Big 8 retroactively forfeited the game and the Big 8 Championship to Missouri due to the Big 8 voting Bert Coan ineligible, on a 5–3 vote.
The background to this ruling was as follows. Coan had transferred to KU in the fall of 1959 from TCU after a reported disagreement with the TCU trainer-track coach. At TCU's urging, the NCAA investigated the matter and it was revealed Coan had taken a plane trip to an all-star game in the summer of 1959, paid for by KU donor and AFL
American Football League
The American Football League was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League merged with it. The upstart AFL operated in direct competition with the more established NFL throughout its existence...
co-founder Bud Adams
Bud Adams
Kenneth Stanley "Bud" Adams, Jr. is the owner of the Tennessee Titans' National Football League franchise. He was instrumental in the founding and establishment of the former American Football League. Adams became a charter AFL owner with the establishment of the Titans franchise, which was...
. On October 26, 1960, KU was placed on 1 year NCAA probation because the NCAA declared that KU alumni indulged in illegal recruiting practices consisting of "excessive entertainment" in the recruitment of Coan. Adams denied he took Coan to the game as a recruit. Initially, Coan also denied any impropriety in his transfer to KU, but later in a 2007 interview he admitted he had indeed been illegally recruited by Adams. No KU officials were ever found to be directly involved in the ordeal. While Coan was not ruled ineligible by the NCAA, the NCAA finding triggered questions of Coan's eligibility in light of conference rules. One conference rule banned off-campus recruiting trips; another rule specified that any athlete recruited in violation of the ban would be ineligible. After KU was placed on NCAA probation, KU received a phone call from the University of Nebraska, their next conference opponent, questioning Coan's eligibility. It is alleged Nebraska had earlier received a letter from Missouri's Don Faurot concerning Coan. KU sought to obtain a ruling from the conference at that time, but was instead told the matter would be taken up at the post-season conference meeting. KU took the position that the NCAA had mistakenly concluded Coan was a prospective student-athlete at the time of the trip with Adams, and thus there had been no infraction of conference rules. Coan did not play in KU's game against Nebraska however, due to injury.
At the post-season conference meeting in December, allegedly at the behest of MU's Don Faurot, but in accordance with the conference's response to KU's inquiry in November, the Big 8 faculty committee took up the issue of Bert Coan. Based upon the NCAA's ruling that a representative of KU's athletic interests, Bud Adams, had transported Coan from his home in Texas to Chicago to view a football all-star game, the conference's ruling committee ruled, by a vote of 5–3, that KU had violated a conference ban on off-campus recruiting. By conference rule, any student-athlete that was recruited in violation of this ban was automatically ineligible. The committee accordingly took up the matter of the period in which Coan would be ineligible. The committee initially defeated two separate motions to declare Coan ineligible for the entire 1961 season, before finally declaring him ineligible for a period of one year starting from the date of the NCAA finding by a vote of 6-2. The Big 8 then ordered KU to forfeit the two games in which Coan had played following the NCAA finding (versus Colorado and Missouri). By virtue of the forfeits, the conference championship was awarded to Missouri.
Despite the Big 8's official ruling on the matter, the reactions from many on all sides were not in agreement with the Big 8 committee in the end. When asked at the Look All-America gathering in New York City Missouri All-American, Danny LaRose said, "It'll always be a 9-1 season as far as I'm concerned. And I think the other players will feel that way, too." However, LaRose also expressed his admiration of the Big Eight “for standing up for what was right – enforcing its own rules.” Also at the gathering, Colorado All-American guard Joe Romig echoed similar feelings when he said, "I don't care what the NCAA or the Big Eight does. We lost the game at Kansas. Nothing will change that." Meanwhile, Kansas All-American quarterback John Hadl expressed more concern about his teammate when asked at the All-America gathering and had this to say, "He's a good guy. I hope it doesn't hit him too hard." Missouri head coach Dan Devine expressed his apparent disappointment in the process adopted by the Big 8 when he said, "This is the worst thing that could happen in inter-collegiate athletics. I mean the fact that they were playing a boy not knowing he was ineligible. That should have been determined before he played." For his part then executive secretary of the Big 8, Reaves Peters, said the case was the "toughest case to come before us in history."
Colorado does not count this forfeit as a win in their record books. Kansas fans also cite a 1999 NCAA subcommittee to defend KU's position, where the subcommittee stated that "forfeited contests do not count as a loss and that the game will stand as played on the field." While KU claims the MU game as a win, they do not claim the conference championship that the conference also ordered them to forfeit.
Ultimately the on-field loss to Kansas cost Missouri the 1960 national championship. The final AP poll was released one week after the game (before the decision was made to force Kansas to forfeit) and the 8–1 Minnesota Gophers took Missouri's spot at number one in the poll, giving them the AP National Championship. Missouri went on to finish the 1960 season 11–0 (10-1) including a win over Navy in the Orange Bowl, while Minnesota finished 8-2 with a loss in the Rose Bowl.
Game results
- Largest KU win: 32-0 (1930)
- Largest MU win: 48-0 (4 times 1969, 1978, 1979, 1986)
Kansas victories are shaded ██ blue. Ties are in WHITE. Missouri victories shaded in ██ gold.
{| class="wikitable"
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Date
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Site
!style="background: #e3e3e3;" colspan=2|Winning team
!style="background: #e3e3e3;" colspan=2|Losing team
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Series
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Attendance
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|October 31, 1891 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||22 || align=left|Missouri||10
|KU 1-0
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 24, 1892 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||12 || align=left|Missouri||4
|KU 2-0
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 29, 1893 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||12 || align=left|Kansas||4
|KU 2-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 31, 1894 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||18 || align=left|Missouri||12
|KU 3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 28, 1895 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||10 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 3-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 26, 1896 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||30 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 4-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1897 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||16 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 5-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 24, 1898 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||12 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 6-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 30, 1899 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||34 || align=left|Missouri||6
|KU 7-2
|
|-align=center
|November 29, 1900 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||6 || align=left|Missouri||6
|KU 7-2-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 28, 1901 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||18 || align=left|Kansas||12
|KU 7-3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 29, 1902 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||17 || align=left|Missouri||5
|KU 8-3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 26, 1903 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||5 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 9-3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1904 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||29 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 10-3-1
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 30, 1905 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||24 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 11-3-1
|
|-align=center
|November 29, 1906 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||0 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 11-3-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 28, 1907 || St. Joseph, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||4 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 12-3-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 28, 1908 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||10 || align=left|Missouri||4
|KU 13-3-2
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 1909 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||12 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 13-4-2
|
|-align=center
|November 24, 1910 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||5 || align=left|Missouri||5
|KU 13-4-3
|
|-align=center
|November 25, 1911 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||3 || align=left|Missouri||3
|KU 13-4-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1912 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||12 || align=left|Missouri||3
|KU 14-4-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1913 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||3 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 14-5-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1914 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||10 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 14-6-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1915 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||8 || align=left|Missouri||6
|KU 15-6-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 30, 1916 || Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||13 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 15-7-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 29, 1917 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||27 || align=left|Missouri||3
|KU 16-7-4
|
|-align=center
|19181 ||
|align=left|Kansas||- || align=left|Missouri||-
|KU 16-7-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 29, 1919 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||13 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 16-8-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 27, 1920 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||16 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 16-9-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 24, 1921 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||15 || align=left|Missouri||9
|KU 17-9-4
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 30, 1922 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||9 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 17-10-4
|
|-align=center
|November 29, 1923 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||3 || align=left|Kansas||3
|KU 17-10-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 27, 1924 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||14 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 17-11-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 21, 1925 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||10 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 18-11-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 20, 1926 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||15 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 18-12-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1927 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||14 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 19-12-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 1928 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||25 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 19-13-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1929 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||7 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 19-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 22, 1930 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||32 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 20-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 21, 1931 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||14 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 21-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 12, 1932 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||7 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 22-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 30, 1933 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||27 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 23-14-5
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 29, 1934 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||20 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 24-14-5
|
|-align=center
|November 28, 1935 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||0 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 24-14-6
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 26, 1936 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||19 || align=left|Kansas||2
|KU 24-15-6
|
|-align=center
|November 25, 1937 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||0 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 24-15-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 1938 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||13 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 24-16-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 1939 || Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||20 || align=left|Kansas (10)||0
|KU 24-17-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1940 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||45 || align=left|Kansas||20
|KU 24-18-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1941 || Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||45 || align=left|Kansas (8)||6
|KU 24-19-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 26, 1942 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||42 || align=left|Kansas||13
|KU 24-20-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 1943 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||20 || align=left|Missouri||9
|KU 25-20-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1944 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||28 || align=left|Kansas||0
|KU 25-21-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 1945 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri (16)||33 || align=left|Kansas||12
|KU 25-22-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 28, 1946 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||20 || align=left|Missouri||19
|KU 26-22-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 22, 1947 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas (17)||20 || align=left|Missouri||14
|KU 27-22-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 1948 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||21 || align=left|Kansas||7
|KU 27-23-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 19, 1949 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||34 || align=left|Kansas||28
|KU 27-24-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1950 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||20 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 27-25-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|December 1, 1951 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||41 || align=left|Missouri||28
|KU 28-25-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1952 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||20 || align=left|Kansas (18)||19
|KU 28-26-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1953 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||10 || align=left|Kansas||6
|KU 28-27-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 20, 1954 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||41 || align=left|Kansas||18
|TIE 28-28-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1955 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||13 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 29-28-7
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|December 1, 1956 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||15 || align=left|Kansas||13
|TIE 29-29-7
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|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1957 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||9 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 30-29-7
|
|-align=center
|November 22, 1958 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||13 || align=left|Missouri||13
|KU 30-29-8
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1959 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||13 || align=left|Kansas||9
|TIE 30-30-8
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1960 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas (11)||23 || align=left|Missouri (1)||7
|KU 31-30-82
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 1961 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||10 || align=left|Kansas||7
|TIE 31-31-8
|
|-align=center
|November 24, 1962 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||3 || align=left|Missouri||3
|TIE 31-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1963 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||9 || align=left|Kansas||6
|MU 32-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1964 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||34 || align=left|Kansas||14
|MU 33-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 20, 1965 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||44 || align=left|Kansas||20
|MU 34-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 19, 1966 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||7 || align=left|Kansas||0
|MU 35-31-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1967 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||17 || align=left|Missouri||6
|MU 35-32-9
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|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1968 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||21 || align=left|Missouri||19
|MU 35-33-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1969 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||69 || align=left|Kansas||21
|MU 36-33-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1970 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||28 || align=left|Kansas||17
|MU 37-33-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 1971 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||7 || align=left|Missouri||2
|MU 37-34-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 25, 1972 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||28 || align=left|Missouri||17
|MU 37-35-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 24, 1973 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||14 || align=left|Missouri||13
|MU 37-36-9
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|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1974 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||27 || align=left|Kansas||3
|MU 38-36-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 22, 1975 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||42 || align=left|Missouri||24
|MU 38-37-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 1976 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||41 || align=left|Missouri||14
|TIE 38-38-9
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|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1977 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||24 || align=left|Missouri||22
|KU 39-38-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 11, 1978 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||48 || align=left|Kansas||0
|TIE 39-39-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 1979 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||55 || align=left|Kansas||7
|MU 40-39-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1980 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||31 || align=left|Kansas||6
|MU 41-39-9
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|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 21, 1981 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||19 || align=left|Missouri||11
|MU 41-40-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 20, 1982 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||16 || align=left|Kansas||10
|MU 42-40-9
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|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1983 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||37 || align=left|Missouri||27
|MU 42-41-9
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|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 17, 1984 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||35 || align=left|Missouri||21
|TIE 42-42-9
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|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1985 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||34 || align=left|Missouri||20
|KU 43-42-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 22, 1986 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||48 || align=left|Kansas||0
|TIE 43-43-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1987 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||19 || align=left|Kansas||7
|MU 44-43-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 19, 1988 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||55 || align=left|Kansas||17
|MU 45-43-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 18, 1989 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||46 || align=left|Missouri||44
|MU 45-44-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 17, 1990 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||31 || align=left|Kansas||21
|MU 46-44-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 23, 1991 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||53 || align=left|Missouri||29
|MU 46-45-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 21, 1992 ||Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||22 || align=left|Kansas||17
|MU 47-45-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 1993 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||28 || align=left|Missouri||0
|MU 47-46-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 19, 1994 ||Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||31 || align=left|Missouri||14
|TIE 47-47-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 4, 1995 ||Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||42 || align=left|Missouri||23
|KU 48-47-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 23, 1996 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||42 || align=left|Kansas||25
|TIE 48-48-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|September 13, 1997 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||15 || align=left|Missouri||7
|KU 49-48-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|September 12, 1998 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri (25)||41 || align=left|Kansas||23
|TIE 49-49-9
|
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|October 23, 1999 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||21 || align=left|Missouri||0
|KU 50-49-9
|42,300
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|October 14, 2000 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||38 || align=left|Missouri||17
|KU 51-49-9
|61,794
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|October 20, 2001 || Lawrence
|align=left|Missouri||38 || align=left|Kansas||34
|KU 51-50-9
|38,500
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|October 26, 2002 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||36 || align=left|Kansas||12
|TIE 51-51-9
|60,287
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|September 27, 2003 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||35 || align=left|Missouri (23)||14
|KU 52-51-9
|50,071
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 20, 2004 || Columbia
|align=left|Kansas||31 || align=left|Missouri||14
|KU 53-51-9
|53,480
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|October 29, 2005 || Lawrence
|align=left|Kansas||13 || align=left|Missouri||3
|KU 54-51-9
|48,238
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 25, 2006 || Columbia
|align=left|Missouri||42 || align=left|Kansas||17
|KU 54-52-9
|55,614
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 24, 2007 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri (4)||36 || align=left|Kansas (2)||28
|KU 54-53-9
|80,537
|-align=center style="background: #5275ab;"
|November 29, 2008 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Kansas||40 || align=left|Missouri (11) ||37
|KU 55-53-9
|79,123
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 28, 2009 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri||41 || align=left|Kansas ||39
|KU 55-54-9
|70,072
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 27, 2010 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri (14)||35 || align=left|Kansas ||7
|TIE 55-55-9
|55,788
|-align=center style="background: #ffcc33;"
|November 26, 2011 || Kansas City, Mo.
|align=left|Missouri || 24 || align=left|Kansas || 10
|MU 56-55-9
|47,059
|}
1 Game not played in 1918 due to an epidemic
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2 Controversial Game - described above (record shown as reflected by NCAA, not Big XII)
Notable games
- 1906-07 - Missouri began the basketball border showdown in Columbia against the Jayhawks with a 34-31 triumph, and the following day followed it up with a 34-12 beating. This left Missouri with a 2-0 all time record against basketball's founder, and Kansas' first coach, James Naismith.
- 1909–1910 - Each of the basketball teams had players from the team's football squad (Tommy Johnson for Kansas, and Ted Hackney for Missouri). The players picked up where they left off from the gridiron, playing a rough and tumble style that, some stories say, caused James Naismith to exclaim, when viewing the second contest between the two, "Oh, my gracious! They are murdering my game!" Kansas won both meetings.
- 1922 - Kansas and Missouri split their conference games, tying for the Missouri valley title at 15-1. Although Missouri's committee on intercollegiate athletics challenged Kansas to a one game playoff at a neutral site, Phog Allen refused to accept, leaving the decision to Kansas' athletic board and Chancellor, who declined. While no national champions were actually crowned until 1938 when the first national tournament was held, in 1936 Kansas was retroactively awarded a Helms Foundation National Championship. The title was again awarded to Kansas for the 1923 season.
- 1951 - In the finals of the Big 7 Holiday Tournament, Kansas center Clyde Lovellette stomps on the stomach of Missouri star Win WilfongWin WilfongAlva Winfred Wilfong was an American professional basketball player.A 6'2" guard/forward from the University of Memphis, Wilfong played four seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the St. Louis Hawks and Cincinnati Royals. He averaged 6.8 points per game and won a league...
. He is ejected from the game and reprimanded by coach Phog AllenPhog AllenForrest Clare "Phog" Allen was an American basketball and baseball player, coach of American football, basketball, and baseball, college athletics administrator, and osteopathic physician...
. Missouri coach Wilbur StalcupWilbur StalcupWibur "Sparky" Stalcup was basketball coach for the Northwest Missouri Bearcats men's basketball and Missouri Tigers men's basketball teams...
works the microphone to calm down outraged Tigers fans, and in so doing earns the respect of Allen (the two had previously been enemies). Kansas wins the game and the tournament with a 75-65 victory. - 1961 - During a MU loss to Kansas in Lawrence, a bench-clearing fistfight erupts between the two teams. Afterward, KU athletic director Dutch LonborgDutch LonborgArthur C. "Dutch" Lonborg was an American collegiate basketball and football coach.-Basketball:The Gardner, Illinois native coached for 23 years at McPherson College, Washburn College, and Northwestern University...
suggests the schools discontinue the rivalry. In the nationally-televised return match, won by Missouri, another brawl explodes, this time involving the fans who streamed onto the court after Wayne HightowerWayne HightowerWayne A. Hightower was an American basketball player who had a long and productive career in the NBA and ABA during the 1960s and early 1970s. He was a 6'8" power forward and center...
threw a punch after being fouled while trying to rebound a missed lay-up. The incidents were seen as a hold-over from that year's football controversy. - 1971 - Kansas defeats Missouri, 72-68 in overtime, to win the final game ever played at MU's Brewer FieldhouseBrewer FieldhouseThe Brewer Fieldhouse is a multi-purpose arena in Columbia, Missouri. It opened in 1929. It was home to the University of Missouri Tigers basketball team prior to the Hearnes Center opening in 1972. It was named after Chester Brewer....
. It brings the Jayhawks one step closer to a perfect Big 8 record (they later beat Nebraska to achieve the 14-0 mark.) - 1972 – with Kansas having a poor season and Missouri trying for a Big 8Big Eight ConferenceThe Big Eight Conference, a former NCAA-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football, was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, University...
title, Bud Stallworth drops 50 points on Missouri in the final regular season game of the year in a 93-80 Kansas win at Allen FieldhouseAllen FieldhouseAllen Fieldhouse is an indoor arena at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. The arena, named in honor of Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen, who coached the university's men's basketball team for 39 years, is one of college basketball's most historically significant and prestigious buildings...
. - 1987 - MU and KU face off in the title game of the Big Eight Tournament. KU's Danny ManningDanny ManningDaniel Ricardo "Danny" Manning is a retired American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association. He is an assistant basketball coach at his alma mater, the University of Kansas Jayhawks. Manning won the National Championship with the Jayhawks in 1988 as a player, and...
elbows MU's Derrick ChievousDerrick ChievousDerrick Joseph Chievous is a retired American professional basketball player who played the forward position, and was selected by the Houston Rockets in the 1st round of the 1988 NBA Draft....
in the eye by accident. Chievous nonetheless leads his Tigers to the 1987 Big Eight Tournament championship. The year also saw almost-identical game-winning field goals from Mizzou freshman guard Lee Coward at the ends of two games, the regular-season clash at Hearnes and in the Big Eight Tournament final. - 1989 – Missouri registered the largest victory by a visitor in Allen Fieldhouse, winning 91-66 over Kansas under first-year coach Roy WilliamsRoy Williams (coach)Roy Williams is head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of North Carolina. After averaging nearly an 80% win percentage in 15 seasons at the University of Kansas, he became the eighteenth head coach at North Carolina when he replaced Matt Doherty in 2003...
. - 1990 - The two teams meet in Allen Fieldhouse, with KU #1 and Mizzou #2. The Tigers win, 77-71. Missouri also defeated KU earlier in the year in a #4 vs. #1 game.
- 1994 - The Tigers twice beat a higher ranked Kansas team, sweeping KU on their way to an undefeated conference record.
- 1995 – Kansas became the first visiting team to score 100 points in the Hearnes CenterHearnes CenterHearnes Center is a 13,611-seat multi-purpose arena in Columbia, Missouri. The arena opened in 1972. It is currently home to the Tigers' nationally ranked wrestling and volleyball teams as well as the school's gymnastics and indoor track & field teams...
, winning 102-89. - 1996 - Missouri upsets the #3 Jayhawks in Columbia 77-73. This is the first of three straight years that a top 3 or higher ranked KU team will lose at MU.
- 1997 - An undefeated Kansas team starring Jacque VaughnJacque VaughnJacque Vaughn is an American former professional basketball player. He last played for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA and is currently serving as an assistant coach for the team.-High school career:...
, Paul PiercePaul PiercePaul Anthony Pierce , nicknamed The Truth, is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the NBA. He earned First Team All-America honors in his junior year at Kansas, and has been a starter every season since being selected by the Celtics with the 10th overall pick in the...
and Raef LaFrentzRaef LaFrentzRaef Andrew LaFrentz is a retired American professional basketball power forward and center who played in the NBA from 1998 to 2009. Born and raised in Iowa, LaFrentz attended the University of Kansas and was drafted in 1998 by the Denver Nuggets...
comes into Columbia to face the unheralded Tigers. In a see-saw battle that some have called the greatest MU-KU game ever, Corey Tate's jumper with five seconds left in the second overtime hands Kansas its only regular-season loss, 96-94. - 2002 - At halftime of the game at Allen Fieldhouse, KU had a 43-42 lead. The second half belonged to the Jayhawks, as they doubled up the Tigers 62-31 in the final 20 minutes en route to a 105-73 win. Kansas becomes the first and only Big 12 team to go a perfect 16-0 through the conference, concluding the season with a 95-92 win in Columbia.
- 2003 - During halftime of the KU-Texas basketball game, former MU coach Norm StewartNorm StewartNorman E. "Norm)" Stewart is a retired American college basketball coach. He coached at the University of Northern Iowa from 1961 to 1967, but is best known for his career with the University of Missouri from 1967 until 1999. He retired with an overall coaching record of 731-375 in 38 seasons...
is presented a rocking chair by KU. A common chant in Allen Fieldhouse during "Stormin' Norm's" days with the Tigers was "Sit Down, Norm!" whenever he would jump off the bench to argue a call. For the first - and only - time ever, the Fieldhouse crowd told him to "sit down, Norm!" good-naturedly. - 2004 – Kansas won the final game ever played at the MU's Hearnes Center 84-82 on David PadgettDavid PadgettDavid C. Padgett is a former American basketball player and current coach.Padgett's father, Pete, played for the University of Nevada, his uncle played for the University of New Mexico, his grandfather, Jim, played for Oregon State, and his sister played for the University of San Diego.Padgett...
's basket with 2 seconds left. - 2006 - Missouri upsets Kansas in overtime when KU's Christian Moody misses two straight free throws with 0.4 seconds remaining in regulation. Afterward, however, the Tigers collapse, Quin SnyderQuin SnyderQuin Snyder is currently an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. Snyder, was formerly in charge of player development for the 76ers and accepted the role in June 2010 after coaching the NBDL's Austin Toros for three seasons...
resigns as coach, and in the rematch in Lawrence, Kansas crushes MU 79-46. - 2007 - In Lawrence, Kansas freshman Sherron CollinsSherron CollinsSherron Marlon Collins is an American professional basketball player who plays for Hacettepe Üniversitesi, in the Turkish Basketball League. He formerly played for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. He has also played for Lietuvos Rytas, Maine Red Claws and Quebradillas...
came off the bench for 23 points to thwart Missouri's upset bid in an 80-77 win, the first MU-KU game for new Tiger coach Mike Anderson. In Columbia, the Jayhawks' Julian WrightJulian WrightJulian Emil-Jamaal Wright is an American professional basketball player who last played for the NBA's Toronto Raptors. He played collegiately for the University of Kansas.-High school career:...
scored a career-best 33 in a 92-74 win, KU's first victory over the Tigers in Mizzou Arena. The game was played on the one-year anniversary of the resignation of Missouri coach Quin Snyder. - 2009 - In the first time the Tigers and Jayhawks met both ranked since 2003, Kansas goes up 30-16 at the half, but a furious Mizzou comeback capped by a Zaire TaylorZaire TaylorZaire Jamal Taylor is a professional basketball player who currently plays with the Dutch basketball team, Magixx. He was born on August 30, 1986 to Vicky Taylor and Gyasi Bey. Taylor played two seasons of college basketball at the University of Delaware before transferring to the University of...
jumper with :01.3 seconds to play gives Missouri the win in Columbia, 62-60. In the rematch at Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas avenged its loss to Missouri 90-65.
Game results
NOTE: For games played on neutral floors, KU is listed as the home team, even though this may not have been the case. This is simply due to lack of information on who was the official home team.