Editors note: The Nov. 25, 1911, football game between Kansas and Missouri in Columbia is considered by many as the first homecoming game ever played. Coach Chester Brewer invited alumni to "come home" for the game, which included parades, bands and more. A tradition was born. This is how the Post-Dispatch covered those festivities and the game.
The preliminaries are over. The game is on. Columbia became home for the mad as the Tigers and Jayhawkers began their twenty-first annual football battle today.
A general parade, much music, near riots and singing, the greatest football crowd ever housed in a Missouri park is watching the conflict at Rollins Field.