University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-10-19
Tventv One Years With the Tigers


Curtis Hill at quarterback led the
team.
Nebraska proved the one stumb.
ling block on the schedule of three
games, defeating Missouri 6 to O.
Kansas was beaten IL to 0, and
Iowa "a to 4. D. L. Shawhan at left
hclf-back was captain.
1898.
Missouri was now under way and
took on seven teams. The largest
score ever made by the Tigers in one
game was this year when they ran
up 76 points on Missouri Valley Col
lege. Nebraska and Kansas were
paid for the previous defeats they
had given US. the latter being beat
en- IL to 4. The Denver Athletic
Club was new team that proved q
benefit to the Tigers, for one of their
good players did not return, but put
On the Old Gold and Black. A score
of 40 to 0 proved to Missouri that
these men were good players. c. E.
Young at fulback was Captain in
this and the two following years, q
unique record in Missouri football
history.
1894.
sorrow. to the extent of a % to 0
score. Kansas came back after two
years defeat and Is to IL was the
score Texas and Nebraska were
beaten. The Sedalia Athletic Club
came and played. This team also
left man here.
This team is the inspiration for all
mass meeting orators, and rightly
so. Nebraska was the only team that
beat Missouri and that by only two
pOints-a result of rank partisanship
so the newspapers of that day said.
This year the team started with no
coach, no manager, no schedule and
an abundance of gloom. c. ID. (POp)
Bl iSs of Yale was coach. Prof. H. j.
Corey, was the manager, and when
needed he played on the team. Three
games were played in Columbia and
three in st. Louis. Kansas was beat
en- 6 to 10, Northwestern % to IS,
DePauw 3S to 0, Purdue I6 to 6. C..
+. Young of st. Joseph was captain
for the third and last time. At the
Kansas game the field was muddy
and one of the touchdOwns was made
by sliding in the mud over the goal
line. Pop" Bliss said it was the
thing he ever saw on the
field.
1896.
The Tigers this year went on per-
haps what is the longest trip ever ta-
ken by football team, giving exhi-
bition games. They were absent
days from Columbia and
travelled 5000 miles in that time.
Mexico was the scene of their prow-
ess. Dallas, Texas University,
team in Mexico City, and the deaf
nutes in Antonio were played. Mis-
souri, came out victorious with large
scores in all these games. Their
conduct was not always decorOus,
said the Savitar. The team got back
10 Columbia January 4, 1897. Kan
Sas was victorious, 80 to 0.
1897.
Captain Hill and Coach Young
managed the team, which played
eleven games this year. Two were
played with Warrensburg; in the
first the Tigers were defeated, 10 to
D. but in the return game the score
vas just the reverse 1t was bad for
Missouri on all Sides Nebraska beat
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22 to 16 and Kansas 16 to 0. A trip
20 Texas was planned but it was too
ong. A second team played Column
bia High School, Westminster, Kem-
per and Central, winning all the
games.
1898.
Wentworth played a tie game at
columbia. The Kansas City Medics
beat the Tigers 16 to 0. but a return
game was played and then the score
stood Is to ) in favor of Missouri.
Nebraska defeated the Tigers A to
at Columbia. Washington did like
wise. though with a smaller score.
md finally Kansas was victorious. 12
o OF. p. Howard at center was cap
ain, with Fultz as coach.
1880.
Success attended the Tigers at the
beginning of the year. but it left
hem at critical points. Eight of the
eleven opponents of the Tigers never
scored at all. The total score was:
Missouri 242- nnnononfc 20 ,o;n&,