1942 Missouri Tigers football
Big 6 champion
ConferenceBig Six Conference
Ranking
APNo. 7
Record8–3–1 (4–0–1 Big 6)
Head coach
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1941
1943 →
1942 Big Six Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Missouri $ 4 – 0 – 1 8 – 3 – 1
Oklahoma 3 – 1 – 1 3 – 5 – 2
Nebraska 3 – 2 – 0 3 – 7 – 0
Kansas State 2 – 3 – 0 3 – 8 – 0
Iowa State 1 – 4 – 0 3 – 6 – 0
Kansas 1 – 4 – 0 2 – 8 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1942 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1942 college football season. The team compiled an 8–3–1 record (4–0–1 against Big 6 opponents), won the Big 6 championship, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 288 to 107.[1][2] The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.

The team's leading scorer was Bob Steuber with 121 points, a scoring title that remained a Missouri record for 65 years until Jeff Wolfert scored 130 points in 2007.[3]

Missouri was ranked at No. 29 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[4]

During the 1942 season, Don Faurot was the head coach for the eighth of 19 seasons. In June 1943, after a younger brother was reported missing in action in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the 41-year-old Faurot joined the United States Navy where he was commissioned as a lieutenant. A total of four Faurot brothers served in the military during World War II.[5] Chauncey Simpson, who had been the school's head track coach and a backfield coach for the football team, was appointed to serve as "acting football coach" during Faurot's military service.[6]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19vs. Fort Riley*
W 31–0[7]
September 26Saint Louis*
W 38–7
October 3Colorado*
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Columbia, MO
W 26–13
October 10at Wisconsin*
L 9–17
October 17at Kansas State
W 46–2
October 24Iowa State
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Columbia, MO (rivalry)
W 45–67,094
October 31Great Lakes Navy*
L 0–1716,627[8]
November 7at Nebraska
W 26–6
November 14at Oklahoma
T 6–620,000
November 21at Fordham*
L 12–2011,000
November 26Kansasdagger
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Columbia, MO (rivalry)
W 42–1310,000[9]
December 5Iowa Pre-Flight*
W 7–07,600[10]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming

References

  1. ^ "1942 Missouri Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  2. ^ "2014 Mizzou Football Records Book" (PDF). University of Missouri. p. 40. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  3. ^ 2014 Mizzou Football Records Book, p. 26.
  4. ^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 16, 1942). "Litkenhous Rates Georgia No. 1, Ohio State No. 2". Twin City Sentinel. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Faurot Becomes Navy Lieutenant". Monitor-Index and Democrat. Moberly, Missouri. June 18, 1943. p. 6.
  6. ^ "Chauncey Simpson Appointed New Missouri U. Football Coach". St. Louis Star-Times. July 19, 1943. p. 16.
  7. ^ "Fort Riley Smothered By Missouri". Minneapolis Sunday Tribune and Star Journal. September 20, 1942. p. Peach 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Great Lakes' Individual Play Overcomes Teamwork of Missouri U. and Sailors Win, 17 to 0, Before 16,627". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 1, 1942. pp. 1D, 2D – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Frank Hood (November 27, 1942). "Missouri Overpowers Kansas in 42-13 Game". St. Joseph Gazette. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Steuber and Missouri Down Seahawks, 7-0". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. December 6, 1942. p. 1E – via Newspapers.com.


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