A Journal-World history feature on the homecoming process at KU showed the event had been inaugurated in 1912 and somehow had survived every challenge, including the vicious flu epidemic of 1918, even though the homecoming game had been called off that fall. The first Kansas-Missouri football game for homecoming had been played in Lawrence in 1912. KU, with only one 1968 loss, was getting ready for a Nov. 23 season finale here with Missouri.