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The 1896 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Frank Patterson , the team compiled a 7–5 record.
Great Cyclone at St. Louis, May 27, 1896 (NOAA) Photos; The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896 (St. Louis Public Library) Look Back: Massive tornado, landmark buildings help shape fast-growing 1890s and On this date: Great Cyclone of 1896 killed 255 and Great Cyclone of 1896 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) The 1896 Tornado!
October 17, 1896, Illinois defeated Missouri by a 10–0 score at St. Louis. October 24, 1896, Minnesota defeated Iowa Agricultural by an 18–6 score at Minneapolis . October 31, 1896, in the only intersectional match played by a Western Conference team, Michigan defeated Lehigh by a 40–0 score at the Detroit Athletic Club .
There is a long history of destructive tornadoes in the St. Louis metropolitan area.The third-deadliest, and the costliest in United States history, the 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, injured more than one thousand people and caused at least 255 fatalities in the City of St. Louis and in East St. Louis.
The tornado outbreak sequence of May 1896 was a series of violent and deadly tornado outbreaks that struck much of the Central and Southern United States from May 15 to 28, 1896. It is considered one of the worst tornado outbreak sequences on record with tornado expert Tom Grazulis stating that the week of May 24–28 was "perhaps the most ...
Coach Pop Warner's conference champion Georgia team beat North Carolina 24–16 in a close game. "For the first time in Southern football history the football supremacy of Virginia and North Carolina was successfully challenged." [1] Against John Heisman's Auburn team, Georgia also had the first successful onside kick in the South. [2]
Missouri football state championships. CLASS 6. Quarterfinals. Christian Bros. College 35, Jackson 23. Liberty North 38, Oak Park 7. Rockhurst 38, Nixa 14
The series started in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1896. For the majority of the history of the series, it had traded off between Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois, and Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri. In 2002, the games returned to St. Louis where they played at The Dome at America's Center. Missouri has claimed victory at every game since ...