Don Faurot, the tlrat Missouri coach to beat Kan ..a consistently, ended his coaching CIUMr In 1956 with a laat-mlnute, 15-13 victory over the Jayhawka when a KU back was hit In the end zone. 28~ By Charles Paulsell, BJ '50 cursed and kicked a player. In the Ilollllc'('oming game th<tt These days Mi'llou'l> Campu:>; doc~n' t bULZ wi th quite the year, pla)'ed on muddy Hollins Field. Al Lincoln del ivered samc ent hu sia~m :md cxcitement as it once did on the one of the most famolls kicks in Tiger history. a 49-yard eve of a Missouri-K ansas footba ll game. There wa:>; a time field goal thai sank the favored Jayhawks. 9-7 when Min.ou students savored a victory ovcr the J ay­ The new MU coadl the fo ll owin g sea son was Gwinn IMwkers. howe \ er meaningless the ~ame. wi th as much Ilemy. who ~tayed for nine seasons and de pal'\ed following gustO as did the current crop la f>t season's upsets of Ohio a 2-8 record in 193 1. Ilenry later was to become Ilead State and Sout hern Califol'llia coach a t Kan sas. li'om 1939 through 1942. but failed towin And there was .. time. too. when the IWO schools viewed a ~ame from MiZLo ll during his lour-year stay there. e:I(:: 11 ot her w ith the same rej..\ard as did O ld John Browl! Tradition :1 nd dominance havc changed m any times in <md \Vild Bill Quanlrill. Some 15 years ~ Igo. during the this long-time series, which had it s beginning in 1891. For week before KU C:1mc to town. students :1nd som e tOwns­ the fir st 20 years Ihe games were played in Kansas City, people s port ed ltu J..\e lapel buttons bearing the initials except for one season when the locale was s hifted 10 St. A.II.A.B .. wh ich su ggest cd tb:lI :11l Hawkers were burnout J Of>ep h. In 1911 the campus compe tition began with a of wedlock. "Coming Hom e" ~ am c at Missouri's Hollins Field , w hic h But if the younger :>;c t now looks a t this oldest coll egiat e ended in OJ 3-31 ie. "Coming I-Iolllc" evolved into Mi zzou's rivalry west orthe j\'l is:>;issippi w ith only ordinary intcrest. tr;)dition!ll i-iomccom in g the S:1 !ll e is nol true 0 1' lon g-lime Tiger followers and Like mOSI anciCllt ri valries. the sNies was n';)ditiollall y Mi'llOU aluillni. particubrl y those li vin g in the Kansas a Thanksgiving Day alElir until th e endy 1950s a nd for City area who rub s houlders daily with Ka nsas grads. The m a ny years has been the final game of the season fo r fa(' t that tht,; Kansans have won fi ve of the last six m eet­ ltoth team s. but tha t. too. is due to be changed. In 1978 in gs be t ween the two tearn s h:1s ca used gre<1 t d iscontent the Ti ).:e rs will hOSI the Jayltawkers on November II a nd among Ihat g- rollp finish their sehedulc the followin g weeke nd at Nebraska. Mi zzou currentl y holds a slim 39-37-9 margin in the SO UPSET WAS THE KANSAS CITY ALUMNI CLUB with the series. thanks mainly to the coaching careers of Don recent turn of events thnt ln st year - for the fi rst time wit h­ Faurot and Dan Devine. who own a combined n.-co rd of in memory - it cancellcd the traditional pc p rally prior to 2 1-7-4 against the Kan s;:w s. When Faurot. holder of 13 of tlt e KU g'UTlC. This season they have again deeidcd not to those 21 victories. arrived on the scene a t Mizzou. the Ti­ hold the rally. pre fe rring to wait lor Ihe outcome of the gers had failed 10 score againslthe ,1 a yhawkers in live pre­ game. An event may be held some time be tween the foot ­ vious games. ball sea son and Ihe Bi g Eight holiday basketball tourna­ Mi zzou still didn't cross the KU goal line in Faurot's me nt. firs t coac hi ng crtOrl ill Lawrence in 1935 bUI gained ~ I Thou g- h the long-time football series began 86 years ago, scoreless ti c with the help or a key pass interception by tile ath let il..' nil..'knames of the tWO schools date bilc k to lhe guard 13 .0. Simon. Civil War. when there were biller :-Ind bloody battles be­ MizWll won. 19-3. al Columbia 1he next year and then tween the two states. followed anolhcr scoreless tie alld a string of four straight Assaii;mt s from Kansa s. who c~lni ed out forays into Mis· M U vit:tories, all one-sided alTairs. SOllri in Ihe ir sl:1nd ag:-linst slavery, became known as F:1l1rot. in fn('l. did not s une r defeat at the ha nds of the Jayh ;:l\vkers and included John Brown , who once carried Jayh:l\vkcrs until 1946. when he returned From a World away II slaves after killing their Missouri owner. \Var II s tint in the Navy and took over ag<1in li'om inlerim Mi zzOli deri ved it s Tiger nickname fl'Otll a home gu ard coach Chauncey Simpson. swwdron organized to cOl11b;1I ex pected guerilla raids by It was that loss that COSI the Tigers a share of the COIl­ the outlaw. Bloody Bi ll Ande rson. whic h never came ference championship. The key play came with three sec­ about. The company. which occupied a bl uc.: khouse at ond s remaining in the first half when Kansas qU:U' lel-­ Eighth and Broadway in downtown Columbia. was known bac k Hay Evans. taking the sn~lI) on his own 35-yal'd lin e. as the Columbia Tigers. dropped back in a futile :lllemlHto pass and the n threaded One of the more si)!nilicallt g~unes in the long ri valry his way 65 yards for n toudldoWll_ The nn~d score was took pl ;1ce in 1909 when Bill Bope r carne from Princcton 20-19. 1'01' jus t one year ,md led tlte Tigers to an unbeaten sea son Prior to Ihal year. the Tigers had won only three times in THE UNUSUAL HAS BEEN THE USUAL throughout the years 18 mee tings with the .I ayhawkers. \V hen BOI)er arrived by in Tige r-Jayhawk meelings. and a case in point is Faurot's train in Columbia. he told a welcOl'ning group of 400 linal game !IS Mizzou's head coach . The then-54-year-o ld s tude nts. "I understand you want to beat Kansas." FauI'Dt had announced his plans 10 retire before the Sial" Wit h the Missouri Valley Conference championship al of the 1956 season and took a 3-5- .1 record into thc game stake. Hoper took hi s 23-man Tige r sctuad to Excelsior at Columbia thaI was to mark the end of his coaching Springs five days before the KU gam e and, tbe night be­ career. Kansas was coached by Chuck Mather, a highly fore the eontesl. c<1 11 ed hi s key players to hi s room successi'ul mentor at Massillon (Ohio) Hi gh School and "The alumnidon'tthink you can beat K;1nsa s. but I don't somcthing less than that at Kansas, helieve them." he said. and then added his great punch I twas M:lIher' s error Ihal led 10 one of the most bizarre line: "The te;1 m that won't be beat can't be beat." finishes ever to lake place on Mizzou's home field, l\1issoul'i won the game, 12-6. The gnmc was winding down to a 13- 13 tie. with Kansa s Perhaps one of the grentesl upse ts scored by Mizzou in possession deep in it s own tCJTi tory and a little m ore in the series came in 1922, a year in which Coach Tom than a minute to play, KU qunrtcl'back Wally Strauch was Kelty was forced 10 resign in mid-season after Unive rsity Ihrown lor a loss to the four and Mather, misre ading the President John Carlton Jones learned that Kelly had di s tancc tothe gO~llline_ called 1'01' a dat'ingin deep reverse . ~ 29 The j ayhawks' Bobby Robinson took the cxch.lnlo\c, cir­ Sportswri [Crs hnve long behlbored an adagc that sa)"s cled into the end !.One and was quickly nailed there by when Missouri and Kansas m eet in football, you throw Tiger tacklc Chuck Mchrer for a s<lfct y that gave the Ti­ their season's records OUt the wi nel ow. A cliche, perhaps. gers a 15-1 3 VietOI")'. but one which contains a grea t deal ofsubst;lnce. The un­ F,lUro( was carricd olf the fi eld and that night a long­ dcrdogs have won nearly as oft en as the favorit es and tim e Tiger fan observed: "You win a fcw and you lose a games frequently have been marked by unusual plays and few and once in a while one washes 1I1) on the beach." un us ual circumstances.