1890 Kansas vs. Baker football game

First American football game played in the state of Kansas

College football game

1890 Kansas vs. Baker football game
First college football game played in Kansas

Kansas Jayhawks	Baker Methodists
(0–0)	(0–0)
9	22
Head coach: Will Coleman	Head coach: Salem Goodale

	1	2	3	4	Total
Kansas	0	9	0	0	9
Baker	8	0	8	6	22

Date

November 22, 1890

Season

1890

Location

Baldwin City, Kansas

The 1890 Kansas vs. Baker football game was an American college football game between the Kansas Jayhawks football team of the University of Kansas and the Baker Methodists football (now nicknamed the Wildcats) team of Baker University played on November 22, 1890 in Baldwin City, Kansas. The game ended with Baker winning 22–9.^[1] It was the first college football game played in the state of Kansas.^[2]

References

^ "Kansas Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 30, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
^ Evans, Harold (August 1940). "College Football in Kansas". Kansas Historical Quarterly. pp. 285–311. Retrieved September 11, 2012.

Kansas Jayhawks football

Venues

McCook Field (1892–1920)
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Arrowhead Stadium (2024)
Children's Mercy Park (2024)

Bowls & rivalries

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Culture & lore

People

Seasons

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Venues	Liston Stadium
Culture & lore	First game in Kansas Timeline of college football in Kansas
People	Head coaches
Seasons	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894–1907 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 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

v t e Historically significant college football games
19th century	Princeton vs. Rutgers (1869) Harvard vs. McGill (1874) Kansas vs. Baker (1890) Biddle vs. Livingstone (1892) Wyoming Seminary vs. Mansfield State (1892) Chicago vs. Stanford (1894) Georgia vs. North Carolina (1895) École des Beaux-Arts vs. Académie Julian (1895)
20th century	1902 Rose Bowl Washburn vs. Fairmount (1905) Carlisle vs. Vanderbilt (1906) Vanderbilt vs. Yale (1910) Kansas vs. Missouri (1911) Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech (1916) Centre vs. Harvard (1921) West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh (1921) Alabama vs. Penn (1922) Michigan vs. Vanderbilt (1922) Princeton vs. Chicago (1922) 1926 Rose Bowl SMU vs. TCU (1935) Waynesburg vs. Fordham (1939) Texas Tech vs. Centenary (1939) Cornell vs. Dartmouth (1940) Oklahoma City vs. Youngstown (1941) Army vs. Notre Dame (1946) 1952 Rose Bowl 1956 Sugar Bowl 1962 Rose Bowl 1963 Rose Bowl Notre Dame vs. Michigan State (1966) UCLA vs. USC (1967) Yale vs. Harvard (1968) Texas vs. Arkansas (1969) Nebraska vs. Oklahoma (1971) Nebraska vs. Penn State (1982) Stanford vs. California (1982) 1982 Independence Bowl 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Flutie (1984) 1987 Fiesta Bowl Auburn vs. LSU (1988) Notre Dame vs. Miami (1988) Colorado vs. Missouri (1990) Georgia Tech vs. Virginia (1990) Alabama vs. Florida (1992) 1995 Las Vegas Bowl Linfield vs. Willamette (1997)
21st century	Cumberland vs. Jacksonville State (2001) Arkansas vs. Ole Miss (2001) 2001 GMAC Bowl 2002 Las Vegas Bowl LSU vs. Kentucky (2002) Arkansas vs. Kentucky (2003) 2005 Fiesta Bowl 2006 Rose Bowl Michigan State vs. Northwestern (2006) Michigan vs. Ohio State (2006) 2007 Fiesta Bowl Appalachian State vs. Michigan (2007) Stanford vs. USC (2007) Trinity vs. Millsaps (2007) Navy vs. Notre Dame (2007) Navy vs. North Texas (2007) Texas vs. Texas Tech (2008) Alabama vs. Florida (2009) 2010 Fiesta Bowl 2011 Kilimanjaro Bowl LSU vs. Alabama (2011) Georgia vs. Auburn (2013) Alabama vs. Auburn (2013) 2015 Armed Forces Bowl Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech (2016) Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech (2016) Syracuse vs. Pittsburgh (2016) LSU vs. Texas A&M (2018) LSU vs. Alabama (2019) Illinois vs. Penn State (2021) Houston vs. SMU (2022) Georgia Tech vs. Miami (2023)
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