Kansas Football Uses 122nd Border War to Invoke Civil War Imagery Against No. 23 Missouri
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Updated · Yahoo Sports · Sep 11
Kansas Football Uses 122nd Border War to Invoke Civil War Imagery Against No. 23 Missouri
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo Sports · Sep 11
Summary
Kansas spent the week framing Friday’s 122nd Border War as a Civil War-era clash, using social posts and a game-day video to cast Missouri as the villain before the rivalry’s renewal.
The campaign featured John Steuart Curry’s “Tragic Prelude” mural of abolitionist John Brown and language saying the feud is “fueled by a hatred, passed down through generations.”
Kansas also invoked William Quantrill and the 1863 Lawrence Massacre, when Quantrill’s Raiders killed 150 men and boys, alongside references to anti-slavery Jay-Hawkers.
The buildup adds extra heat to a matchup between 1-0 Kansas and 1-0 Missouri, with the Tigers entering ranked No. 23 in the AP Top 25.