We start at either the beginning or the end of the story: Missouri players, fresh off of a last-second win over Kansas in Don Faurot’s final game, carrying the retiring legend off of the field.
It is one of Mizzou’s indelible images. For two decades, Faurot had led the football program from either near or, during war time, far, and for most of that time he had been in charge of the entire athletic department. He had established a solid footing for Mizzou’s athletic program, in part because of the brutal non-conference road trips he signed up for, and he briefly made Mizzou a regional football power with conference titles, bowl bids, big wins, and offensive innovation.