document_title: List of last survivors of historical events

question_text: when did the last person that survived the titanic die

text: Before 1701[edit]

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Name
Death
Historical event
Date event ended

Aristodemus of Sparta
c. 479 BC (aged c. 49)
Last Spartan of the Battle of Thermopylae
August or September 480 BC

John the Apostle
Around 100
Last known witness to the crucifixion of Jesus, and last Apostle
April 3, 33

Romulus Augustulus
After 510
Last Western Roman Emperor
4 September 476

Sophia Palaiologina
7 April 1503
Last member of the Imperial Byzantine court.
29 May 1453

Don Mancio Serra de Leguízamo[1][2]
September 18, 1589 (aged 78)
Last known conquistador who participated in the capture of Atahualpa.
November 16, 1532

Mary Allerton
November 28, 1699 (aged 83)
Last passenger of the Mayflower
November 11, 1620

John Alden
September 12, 1687 (aged 88)
Last living signer of the Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620

Richard Bellingham
December 7, 1672 (aged 80)
Last signer of the Massachusetts Colonial Charter
1629

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Name
Death
Historical event
Date event ended

George Gregory[3]
February 13, 1804(1804-02-13) (aged 108–109)
Last sailor who took part in George Anson's voyage around the world
1744

Isaac Smith
July 2, 1831(1831-07-02) (aged 78–79)
Last survivor of James Cook's first voyage
1771

George Robert Twelves Hewes
November 5, 1840(1840-11-05) (aged 98)
Last survivor of the Boston Tea party and Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770 and December 16, 1773

Ephraim Bowen[4]
September 2, 1841(1841-09-02) (aged 88)
Last individual involved in the Gaspée Affair
June 10, 1772

John Hatley
December 12, 1832(1832-12-12) (aged 69–70)
Last survivor of James Cook's second voyage
1775

Levi Preston[5][6]
January 5, 1850(1850-01-05) (aged 93)
Last Concord veteran of the Battle of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775

Jonathan Harrington[7]
March 26, 1854(1854-03-26) (aged 95)
Last Lexington veteran of the Battle of Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775

Ralph Farnham[8]
December 26, 1860(1860-12-26) (aged 104)
Last known survivor of the Battle of Bunker Hill
June 17, 1775

Charles Carroll
November 14, 1832(1832-11-14) (aged 95)
Last signer of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776

Alexander Milliner[9]
March 15, 1865(1865-03-15) (aged 95)
Last veteran of the Battle of Brandywine and Battles of Saratoga
September 11, September 19, and October 7, 1777

Andrew Jackson
June 8, 1845(1845-06-08) (aged 78)
Last former President of the United States to have served in the American Revolution
April 25, 1781

Elijah Churchill
April 11, 1841(1841-04-11) (aged 85)
Last recipient of the Badge of Military Merit
October 2, 1781

John Gray
March 29, 1868(1868-03-29) (aged 104)
Last veteran of the Siege of Yorktown
October 19, 1781

David Whitney[10]
March 24, 1867(1867-03-24) (aged 99)
Last veteran of Shays' Rebellion
June 1787

James Madison
June 28, 1836(1836-06-28) (aged 85)
Last signer of The United States Constitution
September 7, 1787

Barthélemy de Lesseps[11]
June 4, 1834(1834-06-04) (aged 68)
Last survivor of the scientific expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
1788

John Adams
March 5, 1829(1829-03-05) (aged 61)
Last mutineer of HMS Bounty
April 28, 1789

Arthur Dardenne[12]
September 8, 1872(1872-09-08) (aged 95–96)
Last surviving person to have taken part in the Storming of the Bastille
July 14, 1789

Salome Sellers
January 9, 1909(1909-01-09) (aged 109)
Last known survivor from the 18th century
December 31, 1800

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Name
Death
Historical event
Date event ended

Pedro Antonio Martinez Zia[13]
February 1, 1898(1898-02-01) (aged 108–109)
Last veteran of the Battle of Trafalgar
October 21, 1805

Patrick Gass
April 2, 1870(1870-04-02) (aged 98)
Last member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
March 23, 1806

John Rice[14][15]
February 10, 1880(1880-02-10) (aged 90–91)
Last veteran of the Battle of Lake Erie
September 10, 1813

James Madison
June 28, 1836(1836-06-28) (aged 85)
Last former President of the United States to lead American troops in battle
August 24, 1814

James Buchanan
June 1, 1868(1868-06-01) (aged 77)
Last former President of the United States to have served in the War of 1812
September 14, 1814

Charles Booth[16]
March 2, 1896(1896-03-02) (aged 97)
Last living rebel of the Pentrich rising
June 10, 1817

John W. Stainer[17]
March 3, 1907(1907-03-03) (aged 99)
Last veteran of the Battle of Navarino
October 20, 1827

Philippe Demoulin[18]
February 14, 1912(1912-02-14) (aged 102)
Last veteran of the Belgian Revolution
July 14, 1831

William Carroll Crawford[19]
September 3, 1895(1895-09-03) (aged 90)
Last signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence
March 2, 1836

Alfonso Steele[20]
July 8, 1911(1911-07-08) (aged 94)
Last survivor of the Battle of San Jacinto
April 21, 1836

William Physick Zuber[21][22]
September 22, 1913(1913-09-22) (aged 93)
Last veteran of the Texas Revolution
April 25, 1836

Thomas Patrickson[23][24]
October 15, 1914(1914-10-15) (aged 85–86)
Last participant of the Second voyage of HMS Beagle
October 2, 1836

Rebecca Tickaneesky Neugin[25]
July 15, 1932(1932-07-15) (aged 97–98)
Last survivor of the Trail of Tears
1837

Nelson Traux[26]
January 25, 1915(1915-01-25) (aged 96)
Last survivor of the Battle of the Windmill
November 16, 1838

Milvern Harrell[27]
August 10, 1910(1910-08-10) (aged 86)
Last survivor of the Dawson Massacre
September 17, 1842

François X. Matthieu
February 4, 1914(1914-02-04) (aged 95)
Last participant at the Champoeg Meetings
1843

Walter T. Avery[28]
June 10, 1904(1904-06-10) (aged 90)
Last participant in the first official Baseball game
June 19, 1846

Isabella Breen McMahon[29]
March 25, 1935(1935-03-25) (aged 89)
Last survivor of the Donner Party
June 1847

Ulysses S. Grant
July 23, 1885(1885-07-23) (aged 63)
Last former President of the United States to have served in the Mexican-American War
February 3, 1848

Charlotte L. Woodward Peirce[30]
March 15, 1924(1924-03-15) (aged 94)
Last surviving participant in the Seneca Falls Convention and last signer of the Declaration of Sentiments
July 20, 1848

József Fischl[31]
March 1929 (aged 102)
Last Honvéd[disambiguation needed] veteran of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
4 October 1849

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Name
Death
Historical event
Date event ended

Thomas Kelly[32]
April 14, 1932(1932-04-14) (aged 83)
Last survivor of the Birkenhead disaster
February 26, 1852

Horace F. Sisson[33]
March 10, 1942(1942-03-10) (aged 98)
Last member of the Perry Expedition
1854

Edwin Hughes
April 18, 1927(1927-04-18) (aged 96)
Last participant in the Charge of the Light Brigade
October 25, 1854

John Lishman Potter[34][35]
October 24, 1931(1931-10-24) (aged 97)
Last veteran of the Eureka Rebellion
December 3, 1854

John Winchell Cullen[36][37]
December 14, 1939(1939-12-14) (aged 101)
Last veteran of the Yakima War
1858

Teodolfo Mertel
July 11, 1899(1899-07-11) (aged 93)
Last non-priest cardinal
March 15, 1858

Robert Collinson d'Esterre Spottiswoode[38][39]
March 21, 1936(1936-03-21) (aged 94)
Last veteran of the Indian Mutiny
1859

Pressley Corbin Hyman[40][41]
June 20, 1912(1912-06-20) (aged 81)
Last witness to the Broderick–Terry duel
September 13, 1859

Cudjoe Lewis
July 26, 1935(1935-07-26) (aged 95)
Last passenger of the Clotilde
1859

Owen Brown[42]
January 8, 1889(1889-01-08) (aged 64)
Last abolitionist present at John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
October 18, 1859

George Pilson[43]
April 22, 1916(1916-04-22) (aged 73–74)
Last witness at Harpers Ferry
October 18, 1859

Hugo Josef Schiff[44]
September 8, 1915(1915-09-08) (aged 81)
Last attendee of the Karlsruhe Congress
September 5, 1860

Giovanni Battista Egisto Sivelli[45][46]
November 1, 1934(1934-11-01) (aged 90)
Last member of the Expedition of the Thousand
1861

James Hard
March 12, 1953(1953-03-12) (aged 109)
Last veteran of the First Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Antietam and Battle of Chancellorsville
July 21, 1861; September 17, 1862; and May 6, 1863

John Ambrose Driscoll[47][48]
June 13, 1921(1921-06-13) (aged 82)
Last crew member of the USS Monitor during its engagement with the CSS Virginia (aka USS Merrimack)
March 9, 1862

James Marion Lurvey[49]
April 7, 1950(1950-04-07) (aged 102)
Last verified veteran of the Battle of Gettysburg
July 3, 1863

Otto Richard Gellette[50]
June 1, 1944(1944-06-01) (aged 98)
Last soldier to participate in Pickett's Charge
July 3, 1863

Eli G. Biddle[51]
April 8, 1940(1940-04-08) (aged 93–94)
Last member of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry that assaulted Fort Wagner
July 18, 1863

William Sickles
September 26, 1938(1938-09-26) (aged 93)
Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Civil War
March 31, 1865

Samuel J. Seymour[52]
April 12, 1956(1956-04-12) (aged 96)
Last witness present at Ford's Theater during the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
April 14, 1865

John Henry Coghill[53]
Possibly 1942 (aged 90)
Last surviving witness to the death of John Wilkes Booth
April 26, 1865

Charles M. Eldridge[54]
September 8, 1941(1941-09-08) (aged 96)
Last survivor of the Sultana disaster
April 27, 1865

William McKinley
September 14, 1901(1901-09-14) (aged 58)
Last former President of the United States to have served in the Civil War
May 9, 1865

Charles Tupper
October 30, 1915(1915-10-30) (aged 94)
Last Canadian father of Confederation
July 1, 1867

Pedro Angleró[55]
October 16, 1931(1931-10-16) (aged 109–110)
Last participant of El Grito de Lares
September 23, 1868

George H. Large
August 15, 1939(1939-08-15) (aged 88)
Last participant of the first American football game
November 6, 1869

William F. Lukes
December 13, 1923(1923-12-13) (aged 76)
Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Korean Expedition
June 10, 1871

Reginald Courtenay Welch
June 4, 1939(1939-06-04) (aged 87)[56]
Last participant of the first English FA Cup Final
March 16, 1872

Charles Windolph
March 11, 1950(1950-03-11) (aged 97)
Last U.S soldier from the Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 26, 1876

Dewey Beard
November 2, 1955(1955-11-02) (aged 96–97)
Last Indian veteran of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 26, 1876

Tom Garrett
August 6, 1943(1943-08-06) (aged 85)
Last player from first official cricket test match
March 19, 1877

Frank Bourne
May 8, 1945(1945-05-08) (aged 91)
Last survivor of the defense of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War
January 23, 1879

Wyatt Earp
January 13, 1929(1929-01-13) (aged 80)
Last survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
October 26, 1881

Danny Ryan
December 31, 1966(1966-12-31) (aged 96)
Last survivor of the Tipperary hurling team that won the first All-Ireland Championship
April 1, 1888

Frank Shomo[57]
March 20, 1997(1997-03-20) (aged 108)
Last survivor of the Johnstown Flood
May 31, 1889

Hugh McGinnis[58]
March 22, 1965(1965-03-22) (aged 94)
Last U.S veteran and survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre
December 29, 1890

Raymond Pimlott Kaighn[59]
August 16, 1962(1962-08-16) (aged 92)
Last living participant of the first basketball game ever played.
December 21, 1891

Michael Shonsey[60]
August 5, 1954(1954-08-05) (aged 89)
Last veteran of the Johnson County War
1892

Arthur Sherman Phillips[61][62]
March 18, 1941(1941-03-18) (aged 75)
Last participant in Lizzie Borden's murder trial
June 20, 1893

Nawi[63]
November, 1979 (aged 100+)
Last of the Dahomey Amazons and last veteran of the Second Franco-Dahomean War
January 15, 1894

Dimitrios Loundras[64]
February 15, 1971(1971-02-15) (aged 85)
Last known living competitor at the 1896 Summer Olympics
April 15, 1896

Manu Ruma[65]
December, 1961 (aged 87)
Last veteran of the Dog Tax War
1898

John Henry Turpin[66]
March 10, 1962(1962-03-10) (aged 85)
Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Maine
February 15, 1898

John Davis
June 9, 1970(1970-06-09) (aged 91)
Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Spanish-American War
May 11, 1898

Ralph Waldo Taylor[67]
May 15, 1987(1987-05-15) (aged 105)
Last survivor of the Battle of San Juan Hill
July 1, 1898

Bruno A. Forsterer
June 13, 1957(1957-06-13) (aged 87)
Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Second Samoan Civil War
April 1, 1899

Emma Morano
April 15, 2017(2017-04-15) (aged 117)[68]
Last verified living person born in the 1800s, last known survivor of the reign of king Umberto I
December 31, 1899 and July 29, 1900

William Seach
October 24, 1978(1978-10-24) (aged 101)
Last living Medal of Honor recipient of the Boxer Rebellion
June 22, 1900

Maude Conic[69]
November 14, 2004(2004-11-14) (aged 105–106)
Last survivor of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900
September 12, 1900

Lucien Démanet
March 16, 1979(1979-03-16) (aged 104)
Last participant in the 1900 Summer Olympics
October 28, 1900

Nabi Tajima
Living (age 117)
Last living person born in the 19th century
December 31, 1900

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Name
Death
Historical event
Date event ended

Violet Brown
September 15, 2017(2017-09-15) (aged 117)[70]
Last known surviving subject of Queen Victoria[71]
January 22, 1901

Fleetwood Lindley[72]
February 1, 1963(1963-02-01) (aged 75)
Last person to view Abraham Lincoln's remains
September 26, 1901

Laura Bullion
December 2, 1961(1961-12-02) (aged 85)
Last member of the Wild Bunch gang
1901

Léon Compère-Léandre
1936
Last survivor on shore of Saint-Pierre during the eruption of Mount Pelée
May 8, 1902

Irénise Moulonguet
May 28, 2013(2013-05-28) (aged 112)
Last surviving witness of the eruption of Mount Pelée
May 8, 1902

Roscinda Nolasquez[73]
February 4, 1987(1987-02-04) (aged 94)
Last speaker of Cupeño and last survivor of the removal of the Cupeño to Pala, California, the last of the Federal Indian Removals
May 13, 1903

Gladys Ennis[74]
March 20, 1993(1993-03-20) (aged 92)
Last survivor of the Frank Slide
April 29, 1903

Jennings Dunlap[75]
September 20, 1964(1964-09-20) (aged 84–85)
Last survivor of the Wreck of the Old 97
September 23, 1903

Freddy Parent
November 2, 1972(1972-11-02) (aged 96)
Last living player of the 1903 World Series
October 13, 1903

Johnny Moore[76]
February 28, 1952(1952-02-28) (aged 66)
Last living witness of the Wright Brothers' first heavier than air flight
December 17, 1903

Verde Clark Graff[77]
July 3, 1989(1989-07-03) (aged 97)
Last survivor of the Iroquois Theatre fire
December 30, 1903

Michael Barne
May 31, 1961(1961-05-31) (aged 83)
Last survivor of the Discovery Expedition
1904

Alexander Bernard Heron[78]
January 24, 2000(2000-01-24) (aged 105)
Last worker involved in the construction of the Panama Canal
May 4, 1904

Adella Wotherspoon
January 26, 2004(2004-01-26) (aged 100)
Last and youngest survivor of the General Slocum Disaster
June 15, 1904

Ivan Beshoff[79]
October 25, 1987(1987-10-25) (aged 104–105)
Last sailor of the Potemkin Mutiny of 1905
July 8, 1905

Ellen Adelaide Brandenborg
July 22, 2017(2017-07-22) (aged 111)
Last known surviving subject of Christian IX of Denmark
January 29, 1906

Bill Del Monte[80][81]
January 11, 2016(2016-01-11) (aged 109)
Last known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
April 18, 1906

Dorsie Williams Willis[82]
August 24, 1977(1977-08-24) (aged 91)
Last living soldier accused in the Brownsville Affair
August 13, 1906

Brian Evans-Lombe[83]
January 31, 1994(1994-01-31) (aged 100)
Last surviving member of the Brownsea Island Scout camp, the founding event of the Scout movement
August 8, 1907

Francesca Nato[84]
April 16, 2017(2017-04-16) (aged 110)[85]
Last known survivor of the 1908 Messina earthquake
December 28, 1908

John T. Kennedy
September 22, 1969(1969-09-22) (aged 84)
Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the Philippine–American War
July 4, 1909

Philip Brocklehurst
January 28, 1975(1975-01-28) (aged 87)
Last member of Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition
1909

Rose Freedman[86]
February 15, 2001(2001-02-15) (aged 107)
Last survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
March 25, 1911

Sid Daniels
May 25, 1983(1983-05-25) (aged 89)
Last surviving crew member of the RMS Titanic
April 15, 1912

Millvina Dean
May 31, 2009(2009-05-31) (aged 97)
Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
April 15, 1912

Elma S. Damrell[87]
March 17, 2005(2005-03-17) (aged 95)
Last survivor of the Italian Hall disaster
December 24, 1913

Mary Benich-McCleary[88][89]
June 28, 2007(2007-06-28) (aged 94)
Last survivor of the Ludlow Massacre
April 20, 1914

George M. Lowry
September 25, 1981(1981-09-25) (aged 91)
Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Veracruz
April 21–22, 1914

Grace Hanagan (Martyn)[90]
May 15, 1995(1995-05-15) (aged 87)
Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland
May 29, 1914

Vaso Čubrilović
June 11, 1990(1990-06-11) (aged 93)
Last participant in the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand
June 28, 1914

Paul Kley[91][92]
1992 (aged 99)
Last German veteran of the Siege of Tsingtao
November 7, 1914

Alfred Anderson
November 21, 2005(2005-11-21) (aged 109)
Last soldier who could remember the Christmas Truce of 1914 and last veteran of the battles of Neuve Chapelle and Loos
December 24, 1914; March 13, 1915; and October 14, 1915

Audrey Warren Lawson-Johnston (née Pearl)
January 11, 2011(2011-01-11) (aged 95)
Last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania
May 7, 1915

Marion Eichholz[93]
November 24, 2014(2014-11-24) (aged 102)
Last survivor of the capsizing of the SS Eastland
July 24, 1915

Smedley Butler
June 21, 1940(1940-06-21) (aged 58)
Last recipient to receive two Medals of Honor for two different actions
November 17, 1915

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Name
Death
Historical event
Date event ended

Alec Campbell[94]
May 16, 2002(2002-05-16) (aged 103)
Last veteran of the Gallipoli Campaign
January 9, 1916

Lilly Kempson[95]
January 22, 1996(1996-01-22) (aged 99)
Last Irish participant in the Easter Rising
April 30, 1916

Henry Allingham
July 18, 2009(2009-07-18) (aged 113)
Oldest member of any of the British Armed Forces, last member of the RNAS, last founding member of the Royal Air Force, and last veteran of the Battle of Jutland
June 1, 1916

Roswell Winans
April 7, 1968(1968-04-07) (aged 80)
Last survivng Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic
July 3, 1916

Marcel Caux
August 22, 2004(2004-08-22) (aged 105)
Last survivor of the Battle of Pozières
August 7, 1916

Claude-Marie Boucaud[96]
May 17, 2005(2005-05-17) (aged 109)
Last survivor of the Battle of the Somme
November 18, 1916

George Perman[97]
May 24, 2000(2000-05-24) (aged 99)
Last survivor of the sinking of the HMHS Britannic
November 21, 1916

René Marie-Martial Moreau[98]
October 26, 2005(2005-10-26) (aged 108)
Last veteran of the Battle of Verdun
December 18, 1916

Mark Matthews
September 6, 2005(2005-09-06) (aged 111)
Oldest and last surviving pre-World War II Buffalo Soldier and last veteran of the Pancho Villa Expedition
February 7, 1917; August 1918

Yakup Satar
April 2, 2008(2008-04-02) (aged 110)
Last veteran of the Second Battle of Kut
February 23, 1917

Alfred Finnigan
May 11, 2005(2005-05-11) (aged 108)
Last veteran of the Battle of Vimy Ridge
April 12, 1917

Louis de Cazenave[99]
January 20, 2008(2008-01-20) (aged 110)
Last veteran of the Battle of Chemin des Dames
May 9 and October 9, 1917

Albert Marshall[100]
May 16, 2005(2005-05-16) (aged 108)
Last veteran of the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Cambrai
May 16 and December 8, 1917

Richard W. Richards
May 8, 1985(1985-05-08) (aged 91)
Last surviving member of the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition
May 29, 1917

Edward Smout
June 22, 2004(2004-06-22) (aged 106)
Last witness to the death of the Red Baron and veteran of the Battle of Messines
June 14, 1917; April 21, 1918

Cecil Arthur Lewis
January 27, 1997(1997-01-27) (aged 98)
Last British flying ace of World War I
June 1917

Alois Vocásek[101]
August 9, 2003(2003-08-09) (aged 107)
Last Czechoslovakian veteran of World War I and of the Battle of Zborov
July 2, 1917

Peter Casserly
June 24, 2005(2005-06-24) (aged 107)
Last member of the First Australian Imperial Force and veteran of the Battle of Amiens
September 1917; August 11, 1918

Harry Patch
July 25, 2009(2009-07-25) (aged 111)
Last British Army veteran of World War I and last veteran of Passchendaele
November 1917

Lazar Kaganovich
July 25, 1991(1991-07-25) (aged 97)
Last Old Bolshevik who took part in the Russian October Revolution
November 8, 1917

Boris Gudz[102]
December 27, 2006(2006-12-27) (aged 103–104)
Last survivor of the October Revolution and of the Russian Civil War
November 8, 1917; June 1923

Antonio Todde
January 3, 2002(2002-01-03) (aged 112)
Last veteran of the Battle of Mount Grappa
December 23, 1917

Edouard Izac
January 18, 1990(1990-01-18) (aged 98)
Last World War I Medal of Honor recipient and World War I United States Navy recipient
May 21, 1918

Domenico De Cristofaro[103]
September 21, 2006(2006-09-21) (aged 106)
Last veteran of the Battle of the Piave River
June 23, 1918

Albert Wagner
January 20, 2007(2007-01-20) (aged 107)
Last veteran of the Battle of Belleau Wood and last U.S. Marine of World War I
June 26, 1918

Thomas A. Pope[104]
June 14, 1989(1989-06-14) (aged 94)
Last United States Army World War I Medal of Honor recipient
July 4, 1918

Jean Grelaud
February 25, 2007(2007-02-25) (aged 108)
Last veteran of the Second Battle of the Marne
August 6, 1918

Antonio Pierro
February 8, 2007(2007-02-08) (aged 110)
Last veteran of the Battle of Saint-Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Offensive
September 19 and November 11, 1918

Eddie Rickenbacker
July 23, 1973(1973-07-23) (aged 82)
Last Air Service, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and service's last surviving World War I recipient
September 25, 1918

John J. Kelly
November 20, 1957(1957-11-20) (aged 59)
Last recipient to be awarded two Medals of Honor
October 3, 1918

Robert G. Robinson
October 5, 1974(1974-10-05) (aged 78)
Last United States Marine Corps World War I recipient of the Medal of Honor
October 8, 1918

Gisbert-Wilhelm Groos[105]
1997 (aged 102-103)
Last surviving member of Jasta 11 and possibly last surviving German flying ace of World War I.
October 29, 1918

James William Pearson
January 26, 1993(1993-01-26) (aged 97)
Last American World War I flying ace, served with the Royal Air Force
November 1, 1918

Francesco Domenico Chiarello
June 27, 2008(2008-06-27) (aged 109)
Last veteran of the Battle of Vittorio Veneto
November 3, 1918

Arthur Raymond Brooks
July 17, 1991(1991-07-17) (aged 95)
Last Air Service, United States Army flying ace of World War I
November 11, 1918

Alexander P. de Seversky
August 24, 1974(1974-08-24) (aged 80)
Last Russian Empire flying ace of World War I
November 11, 1918

Alfred Pugh[106]
January 7, 2004(2004-01-07) (aged 108)
Last U.S combat wounded veteran of World War I
November 11, 1918

Florence Green
5 February 2012(2012-02-05) (aged 110)
Last participant of World War I and last member of the original WRAF
November 11, 1918

Harry Truman
December 26, 1972(1972-12-26) (aged 88)
Last former President of the United States to have served during World War I
November 11, 1918

Harold Macmillan
December 29, 1986(1986-12-29) (aged 92)
Last former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to have served during World War I
November 11, 1918

Charles De Gaulle
November 9, 1970(1970-11-09) (aged 79)
Last former President of France to have served during World War I
November 11, 1918

Ludwig Erhard
May 5, 1977(1977-05-05) (aged 80)
Last former Chancellor of Germany to have served during World War I
November 11, 1918

Gustav Heinemann
July 7, 1976(1976-07-07) (aged 76)
Last former President of Germany to have served during World War I
November 11, 1918

Otto von Habsburg
July 4, 2011(2011-07-04) (aged 98)
Last surviving member of the Imperial Habsburg Court
November 11, 1918

Juan Filloy [107]
15 July 2000(2000-07-15) (aged 105)
Last student who took part in the Argentine university reform of 1918
1918

Harold Gunnes[108]
March 11, 2003(2003-03-11) (aged 104)
Last member of the Polar Bear Expedition
July 1919

Swede Risberg
October 13, 1975(1975-10-13) (aged 81)
Last person involved in the Black Sox Scandal
October 1919

Raul Fernandes[109][110]
January 6, 1968(1968-01-06) (aged 90)
Last surviving signer of the Treaty of Versailles
June 28, 1919

Herman H. Hanneken
August 23, 1986(1986-08-23) (aged 93)
Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Haiti
October 31 - November 1, 1919

Waldemar Levy Cardoso
May 13, 2009(2009-05-13) (aged 108)
Last veteran of the Tenente revolts
1922; 1927

Olivia Hooker
Living (age 102)
Last survivor of the Tulsa race riot
June 1, 1921

Vasco Bruttomesso[111]
January 2, 2009(2009-01-02) (aged 105)
Last surviving veteran of the March on Rome
October 29, 1922

Gene Bruce[112]
December 6, 2005(2005-12-06) (aged 98)
Last surviving sailor of the Honda Point Disaster
September 8, 1923

Emil Klein[113]
February 22, 2010(2010-02-22) (aged 104)
Last surviving member of Adolf Hitler's unsuccessful Beer Hall Putsch
November 9, 1923

Ivo Pavelić
February 22, 2011(2011-02-22) (aged 103)
Last surviving participant in the 1924 Summer Olympics
July 27, 1924

Edgar Nollner[114]
January 15, 1999(1999-01-15) (aged 94)
Last living musher of the 1925 serum run to Nome
February 1, 1925

Thomas J. Brewer[115]
August 16, 2003(2003-08-16) (aged 82–83)
Last surviving participant in the Scopes Trial
July 21, 1925

Francisco Núñez Olivera
Living (age 112)
Last veteran of the Rif War
May 27, 1926

Louis de Broglie
March 19, 1987(1987-03-19) (aged 94)
Last attendee of the Fifth Solvay Conference
October 1927

Carla Marangoni
Living (age 101)
Last surviving participant in the 1928 Summer Olympics
August 12, 1928

Tsien Tsuen-hsuin
April 9, 2015(2015-04-09) (aged 105)
Last participant of the Northern Expedition
1928

Binod Bihari Chowdhury[116]
April 10, 2013(2013-04-10) (aged 102)
Last revolutionary of the Chittagong armoury raid
April 18, 1930

Norman D. Vaughan
December 23, 2005(2005-12-23) (aged 100)
Last survivor of Richard Byrd's 1928 expedition to Antarctica
June 18, 1930

Francisco Varallo[117]
September 30, 2010(2010-09-30) (aged 100)
Last surviving player from the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay
July 1930

Rachel Johnson[118]
April 7, 2016(2016-04-07) (aged 93)
Last St. Kildan
August 29, 1930

Alfred Cook[119]
November 7, 1998(1998-11-07) (aged 91)
Last known survivor of the R101 disaster
October 5, 1930

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Name
Death
Historical event
Date event ended

Alf Howard[120]
July 4, 2010(2010-07-04) (aged 104)
Last member of the BANZARE expedition to Antarctica
1931

Clarence Norris[121]
January 27, 1989(1989-01-27) (aged 75–76)
Last Scottsboro Boy
March 25, 1931

Simone Schaller
October 20, 2016(2016-10-20) (aged 104)
Last participant in the 1932 Summer Olympics
August 14, 1932

Josef Felder
October 28, 2000(2000-10-28) (aged 100)
Last individual to vote against the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933
March 23, 1933

Moody E. Erwin[122]
October 20, 1989(1989-10-20) (aged 85)
Last survivor of the USS Akron disaster
April 3, 1933

Donald L. Truesdell
September 23, 1993(1993-09-23) (aged 87)
Last surviving Medal of Honor recipient of the United States occupation of Nicaragua
April 24, 1934

Edd L. Miller[123]
September 18, 2000(2000-09-18) (aged 87)
Last witness to the shooting of Bonnie and Clyde
May 23, 1934

Thomas J. Conner[124]
April 14, 1997(1997-04-14) (aged 90–91)
Last member of the FBI team that gunned down John Dillinger
July 22, 1934

Jerry Edgerton[125]
September 14, 2013(2013-09-14) (aged 99)
Last survivor of the SS Morro Castle disaster
September 8, 1934

Werner Franz[126]
August 13, 2014(2014-08-13) (aged 92)
Last crew member to survive the Hindenburg disaster
May 6, 1937

Werner Doehner[127]
Living (age 88)
Last passenger to survive the Hindenburg disaster
May 6, 1937

Walter Walsh
April 29, 2014(2014-04-29) (aged 106)
Last member of the FBI teams that captured Arthur Barker and killed Al Brady
October 12, 1937

Fon Huffman
September 4, 2008(2008-09-04) (aged 95)
Last survivor of the USS Panay incident
December 12, 1937

Jules Paivio
September 4, 2013(2013-09-04) (aged 97)
Last member of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion
September 21, 1938

Con Shiels[128]
January 3, 2013(2013-01-03) (aged 96)
Last participant in the Jarrow March
October 31, 1938

Gunther Scholz
October 24, 2014(2014-10-24) (aged 102)
Last member of the Condor Legion
March 1939

Delmer Berg
February 28, 2016(2016-02-28) (aged 100)
Last surviving member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
April 1, 1939

Stan Hilton
October 21, 2016(2016-10-21) (aged 97–98)
Last surviving British Spanish Civil War veteran
April 1, 1939

Antoine Piñol[129]
September 7, 2016(2016-09-07) (aged 101)
Last French Spanish Civil War veteran
April 1, 1939

Manuel Gallego-Nicasio
Living (age 101)
Last surviving "La quinta del biberón" fighter
1939

Arthur Smith[130]
December 10, 2016(2016-12-10) (aged 93–94)
Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Royal Oak
October 14, 1939

Emilio Ochoa
June 27, 2007(2007-06-27) (aged 99)
Last signer of the Constitution of Cuba
1940

Donald "Nick" Clifford[131]
Living (age 96)
Last worker on the construction of Mount Rushmore
1941

Daniel Nevolt[132]
Living
Last veteran of the Battle of Kufra
March 1, 1941

Ted Briggs
October 4, 2008(2008-10-04) (aged 85)
Last survivor of the sinking of the HMS Hood
May 24, 1941

Bernhard Heuer[133]
Living[134] (age 95)
Last survivor of the sinking of the Bismarck
May 27, 1941

Ed Vezey[135]
January 2, 2016(2016-01-02) (aged 95)
Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Oklahoma
December 7, 1941

John William Finn
May 27, 2010(2010-05-27) (aged 100)
Last Medal of Honor recipient from the attack on Pearl Harbor and last United States Navy recipient of World War II
December 7, 1941

Joseph Langdell[136]
February 4, 2015(2015-02-04) (aged 100)
Last surviving commissioned officer of the USS Arizona
December 7, 1941

Lamar Crawford Sr[137]
December 22, 2011(2011-12-22) (aged 91)
Last surviving United States Marine of USS Arizona Marine Corps detachment
December 7, 1941

Gerhard Klopfer
January 29, 1987(1987-01-29) (aged 81)
Last individual to attend the Wannsee Conference
January 20, 1942

David Stoliar
May 1, 2014(2014-05-01) (aged 91)
Last survivor of the Struma disaster
February 24, 1942

Bill Bower
January 10, 2011(2011-01-10) (aged 93)
Last pilot of the Doolittle Raid in World War II
April 18, 1942

Richard E. Cole
Living (age 102)
Last participant of the Doolittle Raid in World War II
April 18, 1942

Rudolf Brazda
August 3, 2011(2011-08-03) (aged 98)
Last concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality
August 8, 1942

Tuomas Gerdt
Living (age 95)
Last recipient of the Mannerheim Cross
September 8, 1942

Orrel Cecil[138]
November 4, 2010(2010-11-04) (aged 90)
Last survivor of the sinking of the USS Juneau
November 13, 1942

Havala Laula[139]
Living (age 92)
Last known member of the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels during the Kokoda Track campaign
November 16, 1942

Bill Sparks
December 1, 2002(2002-12-01) (aged 80)
Last member of the Cockleshell Heroes
December 12, 1942

Joachim Rønneberg
Living (age 98)
Last officer of Operation Gunnerside
February 16, 1943

Marek Edelman
October 2, 2009(2009-10-02) (aged 86–87)
Last leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
May 16, 1943

Les Munro
August 4, 2015(2015-08-04) (aged 96)
Last pilot of World War II Operation Chastise
May 17, 1943

Jay Zeamer Jr.
March 22, 2007(2007-03-22) (aged 88)
Last surviving Army Air Force Medal of Honor recipient and service's last survivng World War II recipient
June 16, 1943

Samuel Willenberg
February 19, 2016(2016-02-19) (aged 93)
Last participant in the revolt at the Treblinka extermination camp
August 2, 1943

John Cruickshank
Living (age 97)
Last Victoria Cross recipient for action in World War II
September 1, 1944

Frank Ellis Sublett[140]
September 27, 2006(2006-09-27) (aged 86)
Last member of the Golden Thirteen
March 1944

Richard Sidney Albion Churchill[141]
Living (age 97) [142]
Last surviving prisoner who took part in the Great Escape from Stalag Luft III
March 25, 1944

Clifford Brewer[143]
April 29, 2017(2017-04-29) (aged 104)
Last surviving surgeon of the Normandy landings
June 6, 1944

Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
March 8, 2013(2013-03-08) (aged 90)
Last participant of the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler
July 20, 1944

Charles W. Lindberg
June 24, 2007(2007-06-24) (aged 86)
Last Marine in the Iwo Jima Flag Raisings
February 23, 1945

Hershel W. Williams
Living (age 93)
Last Medal of Honor recipient from the battle of Iwo Jima and last United States Marine Corps recipient of World War II
March 26, 1945

Dr. Noel Jacob Wiener[144]
2015 (aged 99–100)
Last witness to the German Surrender ceremony
May 7, 1945

Rudolf Hess
August 17, 1987(1987-08-17) (aged 93)
Last member of the cabinet of the Third Reich
May 7, 1945

Reinhard Hardegen
Living (age 104)
Last World War II U-Boat captain and last Kriegsmarine Knight's Cross recipient
May 7, 1945

Walter Scheel
August 24, 2016(2016-08-24) (aged 97)
Last former German president to have served in World War II
May 8, 1945

Helmut Schmidt
November 10, 2015(2015-11-10) (aged 96)
Last former Chancellor of Germany to have served in World War II
May 8, 1945

Theodore Van Kirk
July 28, 2014(2014-07-28) (aged 93)
Last crew member of the Enola Gay
August 6, 1945

Russell Gackenbach[145][146]
Living (age 93)
Last crew member of Necessary Evil
August 9, 1945

Claude Choules
May 5, 2011(2011-05-05) (aged 110)
Last veteran of both World War I and World War II
September 2, 1945

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Living (age 91)
Last former French President to have served in World War II
September 2, 1945

Giorgio Napolitano
Living (age 92)
Last former Italian President to have served in World War II
September 2, 1945

George H. W. Bush
Living (age 93)
Last former United States President to have served in World War II
September 2, 1945

Edward Heath
July 17, 2005(2005-07-17) (aged 89)
Last former British Prime Minister to have served in World War II
September 2, 1945

John Paul Stevens
Living (age 97)
Last former United States Supreme Court Justice to have served in World War II
September 2, 1945

Edward Shames
Living (age 95)
Last surviving officer of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion in World War II
November 30, 1945

Joe Medicine Crow
April 3, 2016(2016-04-03) (aged 102)
Last war chief of the Crow Nation
1945

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Historical event
Date event ended

Benjamin Ferencz
Living (age 97)
Last prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials
October 1, 1946

Knut Haugland
December 25, 2009(2009-12-25) (aged 92)
Last crew member on the Kon-Tiki expedition
April 28, 1947

Brajraj Mahapatra
November 30, 2015(2015-11-30) (aged 94)
Last royal to sign the merger agreement with the Indian state
1947

Maharaja Tej Singh Prabhakar
February 15, 2009(2009-02-15) (aged 97)
Last recipient of the Order of the Star of India
1947

Mayurdwajsinhji Meghrajji III
August 1, 2010(2010-08-01) (aged 87)
Last recipient of the Order of the Indian Empire
1947

Gopal Godse[147]
November 26, 2005(2005-11-26) (aged 86)
Last conspirator involved in the assassination of Gandhi
January 30, 1948

Tony Rolt
February 6, 2008(2008-02-06) (aged 89)
Last driver in the 1950 British Grand Prix the first World Championship Grand Prix
May 13, 1950

Alcides Ghiggia
July 16, 2015(2015-07-16) (aged 88)
Last player in the Uruguay v Brazil (1950 FIFA World Cup)
July 16, 1950

Andor Lilienthal
August 5, 2010(2010-08-05) (aged 99)
Last of the original FIDE chess grandmasters
1950

Bill Speakman
Living (age 89)
Last Korean War Victoria Cross recipient
November 4, 1951

George Lowe
March 20, 2013(2013-03-20) (aged 89)
Last member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition
May 29, 1953

Paik Sun-yup
Living (age 96)
Last South Korean commander in the Korean War
July 27, 1953

Rafael Cancel Miranda
Living (age 87)
Last living perpetrator in the 1954 United States Capitol shooting incident
March 1, 1954

Zelma Henderson
May 20, 2008(2008-05-20) (aged 88)
Last living plaintiff in the Brown v. Board of Education case
May 17, 1954

Maurice Faure[148]
March 6, 2014(2014-03-06) (aged 92)
Last signer of the Treaty of Rome
March 25, 1957

Bill Hastie[149]
Living (age 97)
Last survivor of the Knox Mine Disaster
January 22, 1959

Kurt Diemberger
Living (age 85)
Last living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres
May 25, 1960

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Name
Death
Historical event
Date event ended

Antonio Imbert Barrera
May 31, 2016(2016-05-31) (aged 95)
Last participant in the assassination of Rafael Trujillo
May 30, 1961

John Glenn
December 8, 2016(2016-12-08) (aged 95)
Last astronaut from Project Mercury
May 16, 1963

Franz König
April 13, 2004(2004-04-13) (aged 98)
Last cardinal created by Pope John XXIII and last participant in the conclave that elected Pope Paul VI
June 21, 1963

Clint Hill
Living (age 85)
Last passenger of the Kennedy presidential limousine which arrived at Parkland
November 22, 1963

Gerald Ford
December 26, 2006(2006-12-26) (aged 93)
Last member of the committee of the Warren Commission
November 29, 1963

Alexey Leonov
Living (age 83)
Last member of the Voskhod programme
March 19, 1965

Stylianos Pattakos
October 8, 2016(2016-10-08) (aged 103)
Last leader of the Coup d'état on April 21, 1967
April 21, 1967

John Lewis
Living (age 77)
Last member of the Big Six
1968

Walter Cunningham
Living (age 85)
Last crew member of Apollo 7
October 22, 1968

Keith Payne
Living (age 84)
Last Vietnam War Victoria Cross recipient and last Australian to be awarded original medal
September 19, 1969

Edgar Mitchell
February 4, 2016(2016-02-04) (aged 85)
Last crew member of Apollo 14
February 9, 1971

Harrison Schmitt
Living (age 82)
Last crew member of Apollo 17
December 19, 1972

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
September 29, 2001(2001-09-29) (aged 78)
Last former President of South Vietnam
April 30, 1975

Khamtai Siphandon
Living (age 93)
Last Pathet Lao leader in the Vietnam War
April 30, 1975

Yao Wenyuan[150]
December 23, 2005(2005-12-23) (aged 74)
Last member of China's Gang of Four
1976

Larry Newman
December 20, 2010(2010-12-20) (aged 63)
Last crew member of the Double Eagle II
August 17, 1978

Joseph Ratzinger
Living (age 90)
Last cardinal created by Pope Paul VI and last participant in the conclaves that elected Popes John Paul I and Saint John Paul II
August 26, 1978 and October 16, 1978

Luz Isabel Cuevas
May 6, 2014(2014-05-06) (aged 91)[151]
Last witness to the assassination of El Salvadorian bishop Óscar Romero
March 24, 1980

Stanisław Kania
Living (age 90)
Last living leader of the Polish United Workers' Party
October 18, 1981

Egon Krenz
Living (age 80)
Last living Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
April 5, 1990

Dmitri Yazov
Living (age 92)
Last living Marshal of the Soviet Union
April 1990

Helmut Kohl
June 16, 2017(2017-06-16) (aged 87)
Last Chancellor of West Germany
October 3, 1990

Stanislav Hurenko
April 14, 2013(2013-04-14) (aged 76)
Last First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR
September 1, 1991

Mikhail Gorbachev
Living (age 86)
The last serving and last living former president of the Soviet Union
December 25, 1991

Václav Havel
December 18, 2011(2011-12-18) (aged 75)
Last former President of Czechoslovakia
December 31, 1992

Cornelius Botha
February 6, 2014(2014-02-06) (aged 81)
Last administrator of the Natal Province
April 27, 1994

F. W. de Klerk
Living (age 81)
Last State President of South Africa
May 10, 1994


document_title: Kansas Jayhawks football

question_text: when was the last time kansas football was ranked

question_tokens: when was the last time kansas football was ranked

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text: Kansas Jayhawks football

text: History[edit]

text: The most successful era for KU football was 1890 to 1932, when the program recorded four undefeated seasons and posted an overall .643 winning percentage. From 1933 to 1968, the Jayhawks continued to find success on the football field, sharing three conference titles and attending their first bowl games, but the team's overall winning percentage during that era slipped to .477 (158–174–22).

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text: From 1969 through the 2017 season KU's winning percentage slipped further to .381 (210–344–9), and ten of the eleven (non-interim) coaches at KU during this era have losing records. During the 2012 season, the program's all-time winning percentage fell below .500 for the first time since KU finished 1–2 in 1890. Nevertheless, even during these lean decades, the team has had some successful seasons, winning the Orange Bowl in 2008 against ACC champion Virginia Tech, and twice finishing in the top 10 of the AP Poll.

text: Early history (1890–1947)[edit]

text: The University of Kansas fielded its first football team in 1890, led by player-coach Will Coleman. Kansas traveled to nearby Baker University to play the first college football game in Kansas to start that season. After playing an abbreviated three-game season in 1890, KU played its first full schedule in 1891 and immediately found success, posting a 7–0–1 record under head coach E. M. Hopkins. The 1891 season also featured the school's first football game against the University of Missouri, the first game in what would become the long-running Border War rivalry, a 22–8 KU victory in Kansas City.

text: In 1899, Hall-of-Famer Fielding H. Yost served one season as KU's football coach, posting the first perfect season in school history (10–0). After the turn of the century, Hall-of-Famer John Outland, who played at KU in 1895–1896, returned to Kansas to serve as head coach, but struggled to a 3–5–2 record in his only season in 1901. The 1902 season featured the program's first game of its rivalry against Kansas State, a 16–0 Jayhawk win.

text: The program had ten head coaches in its first 14 seasons, but A. R. Kennedy took the position in 1904 and held it for the next seven highly successful seasons, through 1910.[5] Kennedy's overall coaching record at Kansas was 52–9–4.[5] This still ranks as the most wins for any Kansas head coach, and puts him fourth at the school in terms of winning percentage (.831).[6] Kennedy's best season was 1908, when the Jayhawks posted the school's second ever undefeated season (9–0) and won the school's first major conference championship, in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. KU has not had another perfect season since 1908. Kennedy was also one of the best performing coaches for Kansas in the Border War (as of 2007 called "Border Showdown") between Kansas and Missouri, going 4–1–2 (.714) against MU as a coach and 7–1–2 (.800) against MU cumulatively as a coach and player.[7]

text: Kennedy's long tenure was followed by another period of rapid turnover in coaches, with seven head coaches for KU in the next ten seasons. The most successful of these was Herman Olcott, who had a three-year tenure as head coach from 1915 to 1917, posting a record of 16–7–1 (.688). Basketball coach Phog Allen also served one year as head football coach during this era, with a record of 5–2–1 in 1920. Potsy Clark finally returned some stability to the position, serving as KU's head football coach for five seasons, from 1921 to 1925.[8] Although Clark would later go on to find success as an NFL head coach, at KU he amassed a 16–17–6 record in his five seasons and left the school as the first coach with an overall losing record since John Outland in 1901.[8] Football innovator Bill Hargiss – one of the first in the sport to use the huddle and forward pass – was hired as KU head coach in 1928. Hargiss coached the team to a Big Six championship in 1930, but could not sustain success and was fired only two games into the 1932 season, after the Jayhawks lost at home to Oklahoma, 21–6.[9][10] Hargiss recorded an overall mark of 18–16–2 (.528) as KU head coach. Through the end of Hargiss's tenure in 1932 the Jayhawks football program had registered a great deal of success, with only four of the first twenty coaches at KU suffering losing records. Beginning with Hargiss's successor Adrian Lindsey's 23–30–8 mark at KU, four of the next seven coaches at KU would post losing records.

text: KU alum Adrian Lindsey was hired by his alma mater as head football coach in the middle of the 1932 season, taking over after the mid-season firing of Bill Hargiss. Lindsey led the Jayhawks to a 4–2 record during his first partial season. Lindsey's teams thereafter struggled to find success on the football field, posting an overall record of 23–30–8 during Lindsey's time as head coach.[11] Lindsey was replaced after the 1938 season. In 1939, Gwinn Henry, formerly head coach of the rival Missouri Tigers from 1923 to 1931, was hired to take over the struggling Jayhawks football program. In four seasons at KU, Henry failed to find much success on the field, going a dismal 9–27 – the worst record of any KU head coach to that time.[12] Because of the struggles, Henry was fired after the 1942 season. Henry Shenk was hired to replace Gwinn Henry but failed to turn around the Jayhawks football program, which by this time had fallen to the bottom of the Big Six Conference. Shenk's teams fared better than his predecessors, but failed to post a winning record in any of his three seasons.[13] Shenk's final record at KU was 11–16–3.[13]

text: Though he was KU's head coach for only two years, George Sauer had an immediate impact on the program and was the most successful Jayhawks coach since A. R. Kennedy. Both of his KU teams won a share of the Big Six Conference, posting records of 7–2–1 and 8–1–2.[14] His 1947 team was invited to KU's first bowl game, the Orange Bowl. Despite falling 20–14 to Georgia Tech in the bowl game, KU finished the 1947 season ranked No. 12 in the AP Poll – the program's first appearance in a final poll.[14] Sauer departed after his successful 1947 season to accept the head football coach position at Navy. His final record at KU was 15–3–3, giving him the highest winning percentage of any KU coach since A. R. Kennedy.[14] He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1954.

text: Jules Sikes era (1948–1953)[edit]

text: Jules Sikes came to Kansas from his post as defensive line coach at Georgia. Sikes had success at KU, in particular 7–3 seasons in 1948 and 1952, 6–4 in 1950 and 8–2 in 1951 that included a No. 20 ranking in the final Coaches' Poll.[15] Despite several winning years, a 2–8 season in 1953 sealed his fate as head coach.[16] He was fired after the dismal season.[16] His final record with the Jayhawks was 35–25.[15] Sikes was the last coach to leave KU with a winning record until Mark Mangino in 2009.

text: Mid-century (1954–1970)[edit]

text: Chuck Mather was hired in 1954 as the 27th head football coach for the Kansas Jayhawks. He started his tenure with an 0–10 season in 1954, the first winless season in KU history. Mather continued to struggle at KU, leaving after the 1957 season with an overall coaching record at Kansas of 11–26–3,[17] ranking him 18th at Kansas in terms of total wins and 34th in terms of winning percentage.[6]

text: Jack Mitchell left Arkansas and came to the Jayhawks to replace Mather in 1958. His overall coaching record at Kansas was 42–44–5 in nine seasons.[18] This ranks him fourth at Kansas in terms of total wins and 20th at Kansas in terms of winning percentage.[6] Mitchell's teams made one bowl appearance at KU, the 1961 Bluebonnet Bowl, a game KU won.[18] That year, the Jayhawks finished the season with a 7–3–1 record and a No. 15 ranking in the final Coaches' poll.[18] Mitchell's 1960 team also was successful. That year, the Jayhawks finished 7–2–1 and had a final ranking of No. 9 and No. 11 in the final Coaches' and AP polls, respectively.[18] When Mitchell retired from coaching after the 1966 season he was viewed by many as the savior of the Jayhawk football program.[19]

text: UCLA assistant coach Pepper Rodgers was chosen as the head football coach after Mitchell's retirement. Rodgers led the Jayhawks to the Big Eight Conference title in 1968, the Jayhawks' most recent conference championship.[20] That year, the Jayhawks finished the season with a 9–2 record, an Orange Bowl appearance (a 15–14 loss to Penn State) and final rankings of No. 6 and No. 7 in the final Coaches' and AP polls, respectively.[20] Rodgers finished his tenure as KU head football coach with a 20–22 overall record in four seasons.[20] He resigned after the 1970 season to accept the head football coach position at the school from which he came to KU, UCLA.[21]

text: Don Fambrough era (1971–1974, 1979–1982)[edit]

text: A longtime Kansas assistant coach, Don Fambrough was elevated to head coach after the departure of Pepper Rodgers.[22] During his first stint as head coach, Fambrough's best season was in 1973, when the Jayhawks finished the season 7–4–1 and made an appearance in the Liberty Bowl, a game they lost.[23] That year, Kansas finished the season ranked No. 15 and No. 18 in the Coaches' and AP polls, respectively.[23] However, when Kansas regressed to 4–7 in 1974, Fambrough was fired.[22][23]

text: Fambrough returned as head coach in 1979,[22] and his second tenure as head coach is best known for the Jayhawks' 1981 season, that ended with an 8–4 record and an appearance in the All-American Bowl which, like many bowl games before it, resulted in a loss for the Jayhawks.[23] Fambrough retired after the 1982 season.[22] His second tenure produced an 18–23–4 record, giving him an overall record of 37–48–5 in eight seasons at KU.[22][23] In 1983, Kansas was found guilty of numerous recruiting violations, principally involving one of Fambrough's assistants. As a result, Kansas was banned from postseason play and live television in 1983. Fambrough was cleared of wrongdoing, but the assistant was slapped with a three-year show-cause penalty, which effectively blackballed him from the collegiate ranks until 1986.[24]

text: Decline (1975–1987)[edit]

text: Kansas hired Bud Moore, previously Alabama offensive coordinator under Bear Bryant, to replace Fambrough after his first exit from the Jayhawks.[25] In his first season in 1975, Moore was named Big Eight Coach of the Year and was runner up to Woody Hayes as the Football Writers Association of America National Coach of the Year.[26] Moore led his team to a 23–3 upset over eventual national champion Oklahoma, breaking the Sooners' 37-game winning streak. That year, the Jayhawks received a bid to the Sun Bowl, a game they lost, giving the Hawks a final record of 7–5.[26]

text: After Moore's first season, his Jayhawks struggled to find success on the football field, and his teams' records declined each year.[26] In 1976, the Jayhawks finished 6–5 followed by 4–6–1 in 1977 and then a dismal 1–10 in 1978.[26] These struggles, plus lagging attendance, led to Moore's firing as head coach after four seasons.[27] In 1983, KU hired Mike Gottfried away from Cincinnati to replace the Fambrough.[28] Gottfried had a mediocre tenure as the Jayhawks head coach, making modest improvement each season, with records of 4–6–1, 5–6 and 6–6.[29] His final record at KU was 15–18–1.[29]

text: Gottfried departed Kansas after three seasons to accept the head football coach position at Pittsburgh.[30] He was succeeded by offensive coordinator Bob Valesente.[31] During Valesente's two seasons as head coach, the Jayhawks compiled a record of 4–17–1 overall, and 0–13–1 against Big Eight opponents – finishing with a winning percentage of .205, the worst in school history to that time (since surpassed by Charlie Weis and Clint Bowen).[32][33][34] The Jayhawks went 1–9–1 in 1987 with their only win being a 16–15 game against Southern Illinois.[34] Valesente was fired at the end of the season.[35] At the time of his firing, Valesente was in the second year of a four-year contract, which athletic director Bob Frederick said would be honored. Valesente told reporters, "I don't believe two years is enough to build a program. I just don't feel we've been given enough time."[36] Valesente had undertaken efforts to improve the team's academic standing and noted, "I feel proud of the fact that we have begun to overcome some of the immense academic problems that have plagued us. We needed to first stop the academic attrition."[36] Anthony Redwood, the chairman of the Kansas Athletic Corporation board and a business professor, resigned from the board in protest of the firing. Redwood noted, "Apparently we lack the courage at this institution to plan a course of action and stick with it. Certainly to the outside world this decision must call into question our commitment to the academic dimension of intercollegiate athletics."[37]

text: Glen Mason era (1988–1996)[edit]

text: KU hired Glen Mason away from Kent State to take over the Jayhawks football program in late 1987.[38] Mason restored promise into KU's football program, with four winning seasons in his nine seasons and two bowl victories, the 1992 and 1995 Aloha Bowl, defeating BYU and UCLA, respectively. These were the first KU bowl victories since the 1961 Bluebonnet Bowl. Those years, the Jayhawks finished 8–4 and 10–2, the latter of which tied a school record for victories in a single season, previously set in 1899.

text: In 1995, as Kansas prepared for the Aloha Bowl against UCLA, Mason accepted the head coaching position at Georgia.[39] Mason had a change of heart and stayed with the Jayhawks,[39] but left for the Minnesota one season later.[40] His final record at Kansas was 47–54–1.[41]

text: Terry Allen era (1997–2001)[edit]

text: Coach Terry Allen came to KU from Northern Iowa after the departure of Glen Mason.[42] Despite increased optimism from the fans and administration due to the successes of the previous coaching staff, Allen's teams continued to KU football tradition of struggling on the playing field, failing to compile a winning season in five years and finishing 21–35 in that span of time.[43]

text: Allen was fired after five seasons at Kansas.[44] His best season was a 5–6 record his first year.[43]

text: Mark Mangino era, reemergence (2002–2009)[edit]

text: The Jayhawks hired Mark Mangino, previously offensive coordinator at Oklahoma, as the new KU head coach in late 2001.[45] The program had not posted a winning season in any of the 6 seasons prior to his arrival. While an intense, foul-mouthed and fiery coach, Mangino was able to enjoy success at that previous KU coaches hadn't. In 2003, his second season at KU, Mangino led the Jayhawks to an appearance in the 2003 Tangerine Bowl (now known as the Russell Athletic Bowl).[46] This was the first bowl appearance for Kansas since 1995. In 2005, his fourth season at KU, the team finished the regular season 6–5, to post its first winning record under Mangino, and went on to the Fort Worth Bowl,[46] its second bowl game in three seasons. Among the Jayhawks' wins was a 40–15 victory over Nebraska, breaking a losing streak that had begun in 1969, which was the second-longest streak of consecutive losses to one team in NCAA history. The same year Mangino also built a defense that ranked 11th nationally in yards allowed per game and featured third-team All-American and Big 12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year linebacker Nick Reid as well as a pair of talented cornerbacks in Charles Gordon and Aqib Talib. In 2007, Mangino coached the Jayhawks to a 12–1 record and the 2008 Orange Bowl.[46] The Jayhawks defeated Virginia Tech 24–21 in that game, which gave the Jayhawks their first and only BCS Bowl Game appearance and victory.[46][47] Mangino's Jayhawk defense was ranked 12th in the nation, and 4th in scoring defense. On the other side of the ball, the Jayhawks finished 2nd in scoring offense led by Quarterback Todd Reesing[48]

text: Following a win against rival Iowa State, Mark Mangino became the first KU football coach with a winning career record since J.V. Sikes in 1953. While at Kansas, Mangino led the Jayhawks to 19 consecutive weeks ranked in the AP and/or USA Today polls (2007–08), 20 wins in a 2-year period for the first time in school history, set home attendance average records in each of the last 4 seasons (2004–2008), led KU to its first appearance in national polls since 1996 and to the school’s highest ranking ever at No. 2, and produced the top 3 total offense seasons in school history, the top two passing seasons and two of the top three scoring seasons and won three Bowl games—the same number they had won in their 102-year history combined prior to his arrival. Mangino also led the Jayhawks to victories in the 2005 Fort Worth Bowl and the 2008 Insight Bowl.[46]

text: With 50 victories, Mangino has the second-most victories in Kansas coaching history. Mangino was named AFCA Coach of the Year, AP Coach of the Year, Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, George Munger Award winner, Home Depot Coach of the Year, Paul "Bear" Bryant Coach of the Year, Sporting News College Football Coach of the Year, Walter Camp Coach of the Year, Woody Hayes Coach of the Year and Big 12 Coach of the Year in 2007.[46]

text: In November 2009, the recurring issue of Mangino's alleged misconduct towards his players became the subject of an internal investigation by the University of Kansas Athletic Department.[49] National sports media coverage of this increased already-mounting public pressure on the university to terminate Mangino's employment. After a prolonged period of negotiations, the university and Mangino's attorneys agreed on the buy-out amount that was large enough to secure his quiet resignation as head football coach in December 2009.[50]

text: Mangino's final record at KU was 50–48.[46] He was the first head football coach to leave the Jayhawks with an overall winning record since Jack Mitchell in 1966.[51]

text: Second decline (2010–present)[edit]

text: On December 13, 2009, Turner Gill was hired away from Buffalo and announced as the new head coach of the Kansas football team.[52] He was the first African American head football coach in KU history. Gill inherited a team that lost its final 7 games under Mangino.

text: On September 4, 2010, Gill lost his Kansas debut at home to FCS school North Dakota State 6–3.[53] The following week, Gill and the Jayhawks upset No. 15 Georgia Tech 28–25[54] followed by a 31-16 loss at Southern Miss [55] and a 42-16 win over New Mexico State [56] The Jayhawks then went on to lose their first four Big 12 conference games at Baylor, against rival Kansas State, against Texas A&M and at rival Iowa State, by a combined score of 187 to 40.[56] The Jayhawks had one conference win in 2010, a 52-45 comeback win over Colorado after trailing 45-17 in the 4th quarter. It was the final meeting between the teams before Colorado exited the Big 12 for the Pac-12 Conference. Kansas closed out the season by losing to ranked teams at No. 8 Nebraska, against No. 10 Oklahoma State, and against #14 Missouri.[56] Gill finished his first season at Kansas being outscored 413 to 198, the worst scoring difference since 2002. KU also finished in the bottom tenth of teams in both offense and defense.

text: The Jayhawks started the 2011 season at 2–0, but finished on a 10-game losing streak.[57] This included six of the most lopsided defeats in school history. 66–24 to Georgia Tech, 70–28 to Oklahoma State, 47–17 to Oklahoma, 59–21 to rival Kansas State, 43–0 to Texas and 61–7 to Texas A&M.[57] The Jayhawks had low rankings in several statistical categories. The Jayhawks were ranked, out of 120, 101st in passing yards, 95th in points scored, 120th in points allowed, 106th in total offense, and were outscored 525–238.

text: Then-KU athletics director Sheahon Zenger fired Gill after just two seasons and a 5–19 overall record.[58] The university owed Gill nearly $6 million, money that was due in just 120 days. To pay this, the university relied upon donations from Jayhawks boosters.[59] During his tenure at Kansas, Gill had a 1–16 record against the Big 12. He had four victories against FBS teams—Georgia Tech, Colorado, New Mexico State, and Northern Illinois.

text: Zenger then hired former Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis, who at the time was serving as offensive coordinator at Florida, as the new Jayhawks head football coach in December 2011.[60] A big-name coach, Weis was popular among KU fans and was expected to lure recruits to KU and rebuild the football program.[61]

text: Weis' 2012 Jayhawks team struggled to a 1–11 record in what was dubbed as a rebuilding year.[62] During that season, the Jayhawks' all-time record dipped below .500 for the first time since the Jayhawks finished 1–2 in their inaugural season. In 2013, the 3-9 Jayhawks ended a 27-game Big 12 Conference losing streak, which spanned three years, with a 31–19 home victory over West Virginia in November 2013.[63] Weis was fired on September 28, 2014 for "lack of on-field progress" four games into the 2014 season with a winning percentage of .185 (5–22), the worst of any coach in KU history to that date. Weis' teams had a 1-17 record vs. the Big 12, and won three games against FBS opponents. Defensive coordinator Clint Bowen was named interim head coach.[64] Bowen posted a 1–7 record as interim coach, with the lone victory over Iowa State.

text: On December 5, 2014, KU announced the hiring of Texas A&M wide receivers coach David Beaty as the Jayhawks head coach.[65] Former interim head coach Clint Bowen remained at KU on the coaching staff as a co-defensive coordinator and assistant head coach. Beaty concluded his first season with an 0–12 record,[66] the first winless season for KU football since 1954.

text: In their 2016 season opener, September 3, 2016, at home in Lawrence, Kansas beat Rhode Island, securing their first win since November 2014, winning 55–6.[67] On November 19, 2016, Kansas beat the University of Texas Longhorns in Lawrence 24-21 in overtime - the Jayhawks’ first win over Texas in more than 75 years.[68][69] Entering the 2018 season, Beaty's three-year record stands at 3-33 (.083), with a 1-26 record against the Big 12, and one victory over an FBS opponent (Texas).

text: Conference affiliations[edit]

text: Kansas has been affiliated with the following conferences.

text:
Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1890–1891)
Western Interstate University Football Association (1892–1897)
Independent (1898–1906)
Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1907–1928)
Big 6 Conference (1929–1947)
Big 7 Conference (1948–1959)
Big 8 Conference (1960–1995)
Big 12 Conference (1996–present)

tag: ul

text: Bowl games[edit]

text: The Jayhawks have participated in 12 bowl games, with the Jayhawks having a 6–6 bowl record.

text:
Date
Coach
Bowl
Opponent
Result

1947
George Sauer
Orange Bowl
Georgia Tech
L 20–14

1961
Jack Mitchell
Bluebonnet Bowl
Rice
W 33–7

1969
Pepper Rodgers
Orange Bowl
Penn State
L 15–14

1973
Don Fambrough
Liberty Bowl
NC State
L 31–18

1975
Don Fambrough
Sun Bowl
Pittsburgh
L 33–19

1981
Don Fambrough
Hall of Fame Classic
Mississippi State
L 10–0

1992
Glen Mason
Aloha Bowl
BYU
W 23–20

1995
Glen Mason
Aloha Bowl
UCLA
W 51–31

2003
Mark Mangino
Tangerine Bowl
NC State
L 56–26

2005
Mark Mangino
Fort Worth Bowl
Houston
W 42–13

2007
Mark Mangino
Orange Bowl
Virginia Tech
W 24–21

2008
Mark Mangino
Insight Bowl
Minnesota
W 42–21

tag: table

text: Conference championships[edit]

text: Kansas has won eight conference championships, five shared and three outright.

text:
Year
Conference
Coach
Overall record
Conference record

1892
Western Interstate University Football Association
A. W. Shepard
7–1
3–0

1893†
Western Interstate University Football Association
A. W. Shepard
2–5
2–1

1895†
Western Interstate University Football Association
Hector Cowan
6–1
2–1

1908
Big Eight Conference
A. R. Kennedy
9–0
4–0

1930
Big Eight Conference
Homer Woodson Hargiss
6–2
4–1

1946†
Big Eight Conference
George Sauer
7–2–1
4–1

1947†
Big Eight Conference
George Sauer
8–1–2
4–0–1

1968†
Big Eight Conference
Pepper Rodgers
9–2
6–1

text: † Co-championship

text: Team records and statistics[edit]

text: Records[edit]

text:
October 6, 1990: KU and rival Iowa State end their game in a 34–34 tie,[70] giving KU the all-time NCAA Division I-A record for number of tie games with 58.[71] Since then, the NCAA has introduced the overtime period in football games. Only a rule change would allow this record to be broken.
December 23, 2005: KU's strong rushing defense, led by Big 12 Defensive Player of the year Nick Reid, finishes the season by limiting Houston to just 30 rushing yards in the Fort Worth Bowl, a KU bowl record, bringing its season average down to 83.3 yards allowed per game and breaking the school record of 109.2 set in 1948.[72] It was the ninth time in the season the Jayhawks held their opponent to less than 100 yards on the ground. The Jayhawks held future NFL quarterback Kevin Kolb to 214 yards 0 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. For the season, their defense ranked 3rd nationally against the rush.
November 18, 2006: The Jayhawk defense's record setting 23 game streak without allowing a 100-yard rusher ends in a 39–20 victory over rival Kansas State when K-State runningback Leon Patton rushes for 102 yards.[73] The streak started following a 27–23 loss to Texas on November 13, 2004.
November 25, 2006: In the regular season finale, senior running back Jon Cornish rushes for 126 yards in a 42–17 loss to Missouri to become KU's all-time single season leading rusher. His 1,457 yards surpassed the previous record of 1,442 yards set by Tony Sands in 1991.[74]
November 17, 2007: Kansas defeats rival Iowa State 45–7, moving to 11–0 for the first time in school history.
September 12, 2009: Kansas defeats UTEP 34–7, going to 20–2 in their last 22 nonconference games since 2005. As of the conclusion of the 2017 season, it is the Jayhawks' most recent road victory, which currently stands at 46 games.
October 10, 2009: Todd Reesing throws 37 completions for 442 yards and 4 touchdowns, Kerry Meier had 16 catches for 142 yards and 2 touchdowns, Dezmon Briscoe had 12 catches for 186 yards and 2 touchdowns.

text: In the polls[edit]

text: The Jayhawks have finished ranked in the AP poll seven times, and appeared in the poll at some point in 17 different seasons. In the 2007 season the Jayhawks achieved a midseason #2 ranking in the AP poll and the BCS rankings, which is the highest the team has ever been ranked.

text: AP Poll[edit]

text:
Season
Preseason
Highest Rank
Final Ranking

1947
–
12
12

1950
–
19
–

1951
–
20
–

1952
17
7
–

1960
–
5
11

1961
8
8
–

1968
–
3
7

1973
–
17
18

1974
–
13
–

1975
–
17
–

1976
19
8
–

1992
–
13
22

1995
–
6
9

1996
24
20
–

2007
–
2
7

2008
14
13
–

2009
25
16
–

text: BCS rankings (1998–2013)[edit]

text:
Season
Highest BCS Rank
Final BCS Rank

2007
2
8

2008
23
–

2009
25
–

text: College football playoff poll (2014–present)[edit]

text: Since its inception in 2014, the Jayhawks have not been ranked in the College Football Playoff poll.

text: Year-by-year results[edit]

text: Record vs Big 12[edit]

text: Vs. Current members

text: As of November 28, 2015

text:
All-time
Big 12

Opponent
First Game
Games
Record
Home
Away
Neutral
First Game
Games
Record
Home
Away
Neutral
Streak
Last

Baylor
1971
15
4–11–0
4–4–0
0–7–0
—
1996
12
3–9–0
3–3–0
0–6–0
—
6 L
L 7–49 (away)

Iowa State
1898
98
50–42–6
29–17–3
21–25–3
—
1996
22
10–12–0
7–3–0
3–9–0
—
3 L
L 0-45 (away)

Kansas State
1902
112
64–43–5*
37–19–2
28–24–3*
—
1996
20
4–16–0
3–8–0
1–8–0
—
7 L
L 19-34 (away)

Oklahoma
1903
105
27–72–6
14–33–3
13–39–3
0–1–0
1996
12
2–10–0
1–4–0
1–5–0
0–1–0
10 L
L 3-56 (away)

Oklahoma State
1923
65
29–33–3
15–19–1
14–14–2
—
1996
11
1–10–0
0–6–0
1–4–0
—
5 L
L 10–58 (away)

TCU
1942
32
8–19–4
6–12–2
2–8–2
—
2012
3
0–3–0
0–2–0
0–1–0
—
3 L
L 0-43 (away)

Texas
1901
18
3–15–0
2–7–0
1–7–0
—
1996
14
1–13–0
1–6–0
0–7–0
—
1 W
W 24-21 (home)

Texas Tech
1965
19
1–18–0
0–10–0
1–8–0
—
1996
14
1–13–0
0–7–0
1–6–0
—
10 L
L 19-65 (home)

West Virginia
1941
8
1–7–0
1–2–0
0–5–0
—
2012
6
1–5–0
1–1–0
0–4–0
—
4 L
L 34-56 (home)

text: Vs. Former Big 12 members

text:
All-time
Big 12

Opponent
First Game
Last Game
Games
Record
Home
Away
Neutral
First Game
Last Game
Games
Record
Home
Away
Neutral
Streak
Last

Missouri
1891
2011
120
54–57–9*
26–16–3
14–31–3*
14–10–3 ²
1996
2011
16
7–9–0
4–1–0
2–4–0
1–4–0 ³
3 L
L 10–24 (neutral)

Texas A&M
1974
2011
11
2–9–0
1–4–0
1–5–0
—
1996
2011
8
1–7–0
0–4–0
1–3–0
—
2 L
L 7–61 (away)

Colorado
1903
2010
69
24–42–3*
15–17–3*
9–24–0
0–1–0 ¹
1996
2010
14
5–9–0
4–3–0
1–6–0
—
1 W
W 52–45 (home)

Nebraska
1892
2010
116
23–90–3
8–47–1
15–43–2
—
1996
2010
14
2–12–0
2–5–0
0–7–0
—
2 L
L 17–31 (home)

text: Rivalries[edit]

text: Missouri (Border War)[edit]

text: The University of Kansas has a dormant rivalry with the Missouri Tigers. The rivalry has been dormant since Missouri moved to the Southeastern Conference in 2012, and there are currently no future games scheduled.[75] Missouri indicated a willingness to continue playing an annual game, but Kansas officials expressed no interest in continuing the rivalry.[76]

text: When active, it was known as the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi River. First played in 1891, the Jayhawks and Tigers met on the gridiron every year after through 2011, with the lone exception being 1918 (flu epidemic). The annual game was known as the "Border War," which derived its name from actual warfare that occurred during the Civil War between free-state "Jayhawkers" and pro-slavery "Bushwhackers" from Missouri. Six towns, including Osceola, Missouri, were pillaged and raided by the Jayhawkers. In retaliation, William Quantrill and his band of Bushwhackers burned Lawrence to the ground in what became known as the Lawrence Massacre. Ironically, Columbia, Missouri, the location of the University of Missouri was also nearly raided by Quantrill's band. The name of the rivalry was officially rebranded as the "Border Showdown" in 2004 out of deference to those serving in the Iraq War, but the historical name continued to prevail in usage. Each year the winner of the game was awarded a traveling trophy, the Indian War Drum. Kansas lost the 120th and most recent Border War game to Missouri in 2011, 24–10.

text: In 1911, more than 1,000 people gathered in downtown Lawrence, Kansas to watch a mechanical reproduction of the game while it was being played. A Western Union telegraph wire was set up direct from Columbia, Missouri. A group of people then would announce the results of the previous play and used a large model of a football playing field to show the results. Those in attendance cheered as though they were watching the game live, including the school's legendary Rock Chalk, Jayhawk cheer.[77]

text: Missouri leads the all-time series over Kansas with a record of 57–54–9.

text: Kansas State (Sunflower Showdown)[edit]

text: The University of Kansas has a rivalry with the Kansas State Wildcats called the Sunflower Showdown. When the two teams compete in football, the winner is awarded the Governor's Cup by the governor of Kansas. Kansas leads the all-time series (64–46–5), while Kansas State has won more Governor's Cups (29–19–1).

text: The two teams first met in 1902 and have played every year since 1911. It is the sixth-longest continuous series in NCAA college football history – 107 consecutive seasons after the 2017 game.[78]

text: Nebraska[edit]

text: The Kansas-Nebraska series was the longest uninterrupted rivalry in college football until Nebraska's departure for the Big 10 Conference in 2011. Kansas and Nebraska met for the first time in 1892, and faced off annually from 1906[79] until 2010. Along with the Missouri rivalry, this gave Kansas the second- and third-most played Division I FBS college football series (Minnesota and Wisconsin have played one more game than KU-MU and two more than KU-NU). KU is only 23–90–3 all-time against the Cornhuskers (as of the last game in 2010), and from 1969 to 2004 the Huskers rang up 36 consecutive victories, second-longest in NCAA Division I (only Notre Dame's 43-game streak over Navy was longer). That streak ended on November 5, 2005, when Kansas defeated Nebraska 40–15 in Lawrence. They again beat Nebraska 76–39 in Lawrence on November 3, 2007. This was the largest number of points ever surrendered by a Nebraska team; the Jayhawks also set records for most points against Nebraska in a half (1st half, 48 points) and quarter (2nd quarter, 27 points). The 95 points scored by the Jayhawks in 2006 and 2007 combined is the largest consecutive two-year total in the series. Also, the 32 points scored in an overtime loss at Nebraska on September 30, 2006, was the most by any Jayhawk team in Lincoln since 1899, when KU won 36–20 in the two teams' eighth all-time meeting.[80] Former head coach Turner Gill is a former athlete and coach for the Cornhuskers, playing football and baseball during his college career and returning as an assistant football coach for 1989, 1992–2004.

text: Players of note[edit]

text: Innovators to the game[edit]

text: Don 'Red Dog' Ettinger – Likely inventor of the blitz[81]

text: First-Team AP All-Americans[edit]

text:
1947– Ray Evans, running back/defensive back
1947– Otto Schnellbacher, wide receiver
1951– George Mrkonic, offensive line
1952– Ollie Spencer, offensive line
1960– John Hadl, running back
1961– John Hadl, quarterback
1963– Gale Sayers, running back
1964– Gale Sayers, running back
1968– Bobby Douglass, quarterback
1968– John Zook, defensive end
1973– David Jaynes, quarterback
2007– Anthony Collins, offensive line
2007– Aqib Talib, defensive back

text: Heisman voting[edit]

text:
Year
Player
Position
Place
1st place
votes
Points

1961
John Hadl
QB
7th

33

172

1968
Bobby Douglass
QB
7th

9

132

1973
David Jaynes*
QB
4th

65

394

text: *Indicates a finalist

text: Ring of Honor members[edit]

text: The Ring of Honor is located atop the northern bowl at Memorial Stadium and is intended to honor Kansas All-Americans and others who have made a significant on-field contribution to the football program. They are listed in the order in which they were added.

text:
Ray Evans (1941–42, 1946–47), defensive back/running back
Otto Schnellbacher (1942, 1946–47), end
Mike McCormack (1948–50), offensive tackle
George Mrkonic (1950–52), offensive line
Ollie Spencer (1950–52), offensive line
John Hadl (1959–61), quarterback, running back
Curtis McClinton (1959–61), running back
Gale Sayers (1962–64), running back
Bobby Douglass (1966–68), quarterback
John Zook (1966–68), defensive end
John Riggins (1968–70), running back
David Jaynes (1971–73), quarterback
Nolan Cromwell (1973–76), quarterback, safety
Willie Pless, (1982–85), linebacker
Aqib Talib, (2005–2007), cornerback
Anthony Collins, (2004–2007) offensive tackle
Gilbert Brown, (1989–1992), defensive tackle

text: Retired numbers[edit]

text:
No.
Player
Position
Career

21
John Hadl
QB/RB
1959–61

42
Ray Evans
RB/DB
1941–42, 1946–47

48
Gale Sayers
RB
1962–64

text: College Football Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

text:
Year
Player
Position

1951
Fielding H. Yost
Coach

1954
Jim Bausch
HB

1964
Ray Evans
HB

1977
Gale Sayers
HB

1994
John Hadl
QB

2001
John H. Outland
T/HB

text: Pro Football Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

text:
Year
Player
Position

1977
Gale Sayers
HB

1984
Mike McCormack
OT

1992
John Riggins
RB

text: Former players notable in other fields[edit]

text:
Bob Dole, End (1941–1944), Politician, Letterman in 1942 and 1944
Bud Adams, Quarterback (1942), Businessman, Letterman in 1942
Keith Loneker, Guard (1989–1992), Actor, also had a brief NFL career

text: Jayhawks currently in the pros[edit]

text: NFL[edit]

text:
Dorance Armstrong Jr., DE, Dallas Cowboys
Chris Harris, CB, Denver Broncos
Ben Heeney, LB, Houston Texans
Ben Johnson, TE, Los Angeles Chargers
Dexter McDonald, CB, Oakland Raiders
Bradley McDougald, S, Seattle Seahawks
Tyler Patmon, CB, Jacksonville Jaguars*
Fish Smithson, S, Washington Redskins
Aqib Talib, CB, Los Angeles Rams

text: AFL[edit]

text: James McClinton, DL, Tampa Bay Storm[83]

text: Jayhawks as coaches[edit]

text: Charles Gordon (DB/WR/KR/PR, 2003–2005), Denver Broncos Defensive Quality control coach

text: *Transferred out of Kansas with eligibility remaining

text: Coaches[edit]

text: Current coaching staff[edit]

text:
Name
Position

David Beaty
Head Coach

Clint Bowen
Assistant Head Coach/Defensive Coordinator/Safeties

Todd Bradford
Linebackers

Joe DeForest
Special Teams/Defensive Assistant

Tony Hull
Running Backs/Associate Head Coach

Doug Meacham
Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers

Kenny Perry
Co-Defensive Coordinator/Cornerbacks

Garrett Riley
Quarterbacks

Michael Slater
Defensive Line

A.J. Ricker
Run Game Coordinator/Offensive Line

Zac Woodfin
Director of Football Strength & Conditioning

text: Head coaching history[edit]

text: The Jayhawks have had 37 official head coaches, while one unofficial player-coach, Will Coleman, coached the team in their first year of existence in 1890. The current head coach is David Beaty, who was hired in December 2014. They have played in more than 1200 games in their 123 seasons. During that time, seven head coaches have led the Jayhawks to postseason bowl games: George Sauer, Jack Mitchell, Pepper Rodgers, Don Fambrough, Bud Moore, Glen Mason, and Mark Mangino. Six coaches have also won conference championships: A. W. Shepard, Hector Cowan, A. R. Kennedy, Homer Woodson "Bill" Hargiss, George Sauer, and Pepper Rodgers. Mason is the all-time leader in games coached at 101, while Mitchell and Mason are tied for the most years coached at nine. Kennedy is the leader in all-time wins at 52, and Wylie G. Woodruff leads in winning percentage among coaches who coached more than 1 year with a winning percentage of .833 with Kennedy just behind with a winning percentage of .831. As of the end of the 2016 season, David Beaty has the worst percentage among coaches who coached more than one season with a winning percentage of .125.[84] Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and long time Kansas men's basketball coach Phog Allen coached the Jayhawk football team in 1920. In his lone season as the football coach, the Jayhawks had a 5–2–1 record.

text: Of the 37 different head coaches who have led the Jayhawks, Cowan,[85] Yost,[86] and John H. Outland (as a player, not a coach)[87] have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Mark Mangino received 9 different coach of the year awards in 2007.


document_title: Kirk Franklin & the Family Christmas

question_text: who sings kirk franklin now behold the lamb

text: Kirk Franklin & the Family Christmas

text: Synopsis[edit]

text: Christmas is the second album by Franklin and is also the second album released by Franklin in collaboration with The Family Choir. The U.S. release on Interscope Records occurred on November 7, 1995 (1995-11-07).

text: Track listing[edit]

text:
#
Title
Time
Notes

1.
Silent Night
3:49
Lead: Kirk Franklin

2.
Now Behold the Lamb
6:58
Lead: Tamela Mann and Dalon Collins

3.
Jesus Is the Reason for the Season
5:45
Lead: Kirk Franklin and Chris Simpson
Background vocals by God's Property

4.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
5:54
Lead: Sheila Brice and Stephanie Glynn

5.
They Need to Know
3:59
Lead: David Mann

6.
There's No Christmas Without You
4:13
Lead: Kirk Franklin and Demetrice Clinkscale

7.
O Come All Ye Faithful
5:18
Lead: Jeannette Johnson

8.
The Night That Christ Was Born
4:32
Lead: Kisha Grandy and Carrie Young-Davis

9.
Thank You For Your Child
4:35
Lead: Kirk Franklin & The Family

10.
Love Song
4:12
Lead: Dalon Collins, and Chris Simpson and Farrell mannings

11.
Silver & Gold (Remix)
3:46
Lead: Kirk Franklin & The Family

text: Certification and charting[edit]

text: The album was certified Gold on January 22, 1999 (1999-01-22).[2]