We turn to the pages of The Savitar, Mizzou’s university yearbook, to chronicle the first Tigers-Mountaineers meeting, Oct. 30, 1926. Calvin Coolidge was in the White House; Chuck Berry, Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner were newborns and Gwinn Herny was in the midst of three Missouri Valley Conference championships in four years at Mizzou.
“The Tiger attack reached its greatest momentum when West Virginia was downed 27-0 at Morgantown, October 30,” The Savitar wrote. “Missouri went East in grand array, and when darkness settled over the wet field the famed mountaineers, frequent claimants of the Championship of the East, had been beaten for the first time during the season; and on their home field for the first time since 1919.