1938 Missouri Tigers football team

American college football season

1938 Big Six Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 4 Oklahoma $	5	–	0	–	0	10	–	1	–	0
Iowa State	3	–	1	–	1	7	–	1	–	1
Missouri	2	–	3	–	0	6	–	3	–	0
Nebraska	2	–	3	–	0	3	–	5	–	1
Kansas State	1	–	3	–	1	4	–	4	–	1
Kansas	1	–	4	–	0	3	–	6	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1938 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1938 college football season. The team compiled a 6–3 record (2–3 against Big 6 opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the Big 6, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 111 to 82. Don Faurot was the head coach for the fourth of 19 seasons. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.

The team's leading scorer was Paul Christman with 48 points.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 1	Colorado*	Memorial Stadium Columbia, MO	W 14–7
October 8	at Kansas State	Memorial Stadium Manhattan, KS	L 13–21
October 15	Iowa State	Memorial Stadium Columbia, MO (rivalry)	L 13–16	8,873
October 22	at Washington University*	Francis Field St. Louis, MO	W 13–0
October 29	at Nebraska	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE (rivalry)	W 13–10
November 5	Michigan State*	Memorial Stadium Columbia, MO	W 6–0	10,000
November 12	at No. 10 Oklahoma	Memorial Stadium Norman, OK (rivalry)	L 0–21
November 19	at Saint Louis*	Walsh Stadium St. Louis, MO	W 26–0
November 24	Kansas	Memorial Stadium Columbia, MO (rivalry)	W 13–7	17,500
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

"1938 Missouri Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
"2014 Mizzou Football Records Book" (PDF). University of Missouri. p. 40. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
2014 Mizzou Football Records Book, p. 26.
George Alderton (November 6, 1938). "Spartans Succumb to Hard-Fighting Tigers, 6-0". The Lansing State Journal. pp. 13–14.
Hamel, J. P. (November 25, 1938). "Bengals Triumph". Evening World-Herald. Omaha, Nebraska. p. 27. Retrieved January 13, 2023 – via Newspapers.com .

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