Timeline of college football in Kansas

This timeline of college football in Kansas sets forth notable college football-related events that occurred in the state of Kansas.

Overview

College football in Kansas began in 1890 and has its roots in the formation of the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference.^[1] The first game was played on November 22 that year between Baker University and the University of Kansas.^[2] Games have been played in the state continuously every year ever since.

Timeline

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1890
- February 15 – The Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Association is formed.^[1]
- November 22 – The first official intercollegiate football game in the state of Kansas is played in Baldwin City, between the University of Kansas and Baker University. Baker wins, 22–9.^[2]
1891
- October 31 – The first playing of the "Border War" between Kansas and Missouri, in Kansas City, Missouri.^[2] Border War games are played Kansas City until 1911. In 1912, Kansas hosts the game for the first time in Lawrence.
1893
- African American Ed Haney plays on the football team for the University of Kansas.^[3]
- November 30 – Kansas State competes in its first football game, against St. Mary's College. The Manhattan Mercury reports afterward on its front page: "About 30 spectators and lovers of the game accompanied our college foot ball team to St. Marys on Thanksgiving day and witnessed the defeat of St. Marys' college team by a score of 18 to 10."^[4]
1902
- October 4 – Kansas State and Kansas play the first game of their long rivalry, a 16–0 Jayhawk win.
1904
- October 28 – Haskell College faces Carlisle at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, in front of a crowd of 12,000 people, in an early inter-sectional college football "championship" game.^[2]^[5]
1905
- October 6 – Cooper College (Sterling) plays Fairmount (Wichita State) in a night game – the first night college football game west of the Mississippi River.^[6]
- December 25 – Washburn and Fairmount play an "experimental" game to test new rules.^[2]^[7]
1908
- November 26 – Kansas completes a 9–0 season and clinches the championship of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the first major conference football title won by a state school.^[2] This was the last undefeated season for KU.
1911
- November 25 – Over 1,000 people gather in downtown Lawrence to watch a live scale model reenactment of the Kansas Jayhawks game against Missouri. Game statistics were transmitted by telegraph.
1928
- December 1 – The former Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference disbanded to form the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference ("little six").
1939
- October 28 – Kansas State's homecoming game against Nebraska is broadcast on W9XAK television. This is the first college football game broadcast in Kansas and the second anywhere in the nation.
1948
- January 1 – Both Wichita State and Kansas play in bowl games on the same date – the first bowl appearances for any of the state's schools. Wichita State plays in the Raisin Bowl, while KU plays in the Orange Bowl. After the season ends, WSU's head coach Ralph Graham leaves to coach at his alma mater, Kansas State, which is at the time in the midst of an NCAA-record 28-game losing streak.
1949
- September 24 – Harold Robinson plays his first game for Kansas State, breaking the modern "color barrier" in Big Eight Conference athletics, and also becoming the first ever African-American athlete on scholarship in the conference.^[8]
1951
- September 14 – Head coach Harold Hunt of Southwestern gains national praise by rejecting a touchdown when he observes his ball carrier stepping out of bounds.
- Former Washburn Ichabods and Bethany Swedes head coach Bennie Owen is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[9]
- Former Kansas head coach Fielding H. Yost is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[10]
1955
- Former Haskell football head coach Matty Bell is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[11]
1957
- December 21 – Pittsburg State wins its first NAIA national championship.
1961
- Pittsburg State is voted the NCAA Division II national champion.
1966
- Former Kansas State head coach Pappy Waldorf is voted in to the College Football Hall of Fame.^[12]
1970
- October 2 – Approximately half of the Wichita State University football team dies in a plane crash on way to play a game against Utah State University.
- December 1 – The first Boot Hill Bowl game is played.
1974
- The College of Emporia closes, discontinuing its football program.
1978
- Former Kansas State head coach Charlie Bachman is voted in to the College Football Hall of Fame.^[13]
1979
- Willie Jeffries is named the head coach at Wichita State, the first Afican-American head coach of a NCAA Division-I program at a predominantly white school.^[14]
1980
- November 20 – The first Sunflower Bowl is played.
- November 21 – The final Boot Hill Bowl game is played.
1986
- November 15 – The final Sunflower Bowl is played.
- December 2 – Wichita State University discontinues its football program.
1992
- Saint Mary of the Plains closes.
1995
- October 28 – Kansas State and Kansas face each other as ranked football teams for the first time. KU comes into the game ranked #6 in the nation in the AP Poll, while KSU is ranked #14. KSU wins the game, 41–7.
- The Wheat Bowl plays its first game.
1996
- August 31 – Texas Tech plays at Kansas State in the first ever Big 12 Conference football game.
1998
- November 9 – Kansas State rises to the #1 ranking in the Coaches Poll after improving to 9–0, the first time a state school is ranked first in the nation in the NCAA Division I college football polls.
2001
- Former Kansas tackle/halfback and former head coach at Kansas, Washburn and Haskell John H. Outland is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[15]
2002
- Former Wichita State head coach Marcelino Huerta is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[16]
2004
- Charlie Richard, former head coach at Baker University, is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
2006
- The final Wheat Bowl game is played.
2009
- May 12 – The first Kanza Bowl is played
2010
- Former Bethany Swedes head coach Ted Kessinger is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the second Hall of Fame coach from the small school in Lindsborg.^[17]
- Former Wichita State head coach Willie Jeffries is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[14]
2012
- November 15 – The final Kanza Bowl is played.
- Former Haskell head coach William Henry Dietz is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.^[18]
2015
- January 9, 2015 - Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame^[19]

References

1 2 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics "Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference"
1 2 3 4 5 6 Evans, Harold (August 1940). "College Football in Kansas". Kansas Historical Quarterly. pp. 285–311. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
↑ http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blackhistory2008/columns/story?id=3254974
↑ "(unknown title)". The Manhattan Mercury. December 6, 1893.
↑ http://www.mmbolding.com/Olyball/Olympic_Football.htm
↑ DeLassus, David. "Wichita State Yearly Results (1905)". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
↑ "New Football Rules Tested". Los Angeles Times. December 26, 1905.
↑ "Athlete Who Broke Big 12 Race Barrier Dies". CBS College Sports. May 13, 2006. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
↑ "Bennie Owen". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
↑ "Fielding "Hurry Up" Yost". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
↑ "Matty "Moanin' Matty" Bell". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
↑ "Lynn "Pappy" Waldorf". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
↑ "Charlie Bachman". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
1 2 "Willie Jeffries". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
↑ "John Outland". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
↑ "Marcelino "Chelo" Huerta". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
↑ "Ted Kessinger". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
↑ "William "Lone Star" Dietz". National Football Foundation. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
↑ "Bill Snyder". College Football Hall of Fame. January 9, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2015.

Kansas college football team navboxes

Baker Wildcats football

Venues	Liston Stadium

Culture & lore	First game in Kansas Timeline of college football in Kansas

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Bethany Swedes football

Venues	Lindstrom Field

Culture & lore	Timeline of college football in Kansas

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

College of Emporia Fighting Presbies football

Venues	Schaffner Field

Culture & lore	Timeline of Kansas football

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972

Emporia State Hornets football

Venue	Jones Field at Welch Stadium (1937–present)

Culture & lore	Corky the Hornet Timeline of college football in Kansas

People	Head coaches NFL Draftees

Seasons	1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Haskell Indian Nations Fighting Indians football

Venues	Haskell Stadium (1926–)

Culture & lore	Timeline of Kansas football

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Kansas Jayhawks football

Venues	McCook Field (1892–1920) Memorial Stadium (1921–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Kansas State: Sunflower Showdown (Governor's Cup) Missouri: Border War Nebraska

Culture & lore	Big Jay Baby Jay "I'm a Jayhawk" Marching Jayhawks Aggieville riots Timeline of football in Kansas First game in Kansas 1911 Missouri game

People	Head coaches NFL Draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Kansas State Wildcats football

Venues	Ahearn Field (1911–1921) Memorial Stadium (1922–1967) Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium (1968–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Iowa State Kansas: Sunflower Showdown (Governor's Cup)

Culture & lore	Willie the Wildcat "Wildcat Victory" "Wabash Cannonball" Marching band Timeline of football in Kansas Aggieville riots 1939 Nebraska game

People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Pittsburg State Gorillas football

Venues	Carnie Smith Stadium (1924–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Northwest Missouri State

Culture & lore	Timeline of Kansas football

People	Head coaches NFL Draftees

Seasons	1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

National championship seasons in bold

Southwestern Moundbuilders football

Venues	Richard L. Jantz Stadium

Culture & lore	Timeline of college football in Kansas 1951 Central Missouri State game (rejected touchdown game)

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Washburn Ichabods football

Venues	Yager Stadium at Moore Bowl (1928–present)

Culture & lore	1905 Fairmount game Timeline of college football in Kansas

People	Head coaches NFL Draftees

Seasons	1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Wichita State Shockers football

Venues	Cessna Stadium (1969–1986)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games

Culture & lore	1905 Cooper game 1905 Washburn game Camellia Bowl 1970 plane crash Timeline of football in Kansas

People	Head coaches

Seasons	1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986

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Timeline of college football in Kansas

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See also

References