From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 22, 1985:

• The weather forecast, which was calling for highs in the 30s and a chance of freezing rain, might have been one factor in the sluggish ticket sales for the upcoming Kansas University – University of Missouri football game at KU’s Memorial Stadium. Ticket offices at both schools were estimating between 28,000 and 33,700 people at Saturday’s game. Records of attendance at KU-MU games held in Lawrence were compared for the past fourteen years. The smallest crowd in that time period had been in 1979, when 34,599 fans attended, and the second lowest attendance was in 1983 with 34,708 people in the stands. Record attendance had been reached in 1975, with 46,851 tickets sold.
• Lawrence High School (10-0) and Shawnee Mission West (9-1), the two top teams in the Sunflower League, were scheduled to meet at a football rematch in the semifinal round of the Class 6A state playoffs. Two more victories would not only give the LHS Lions a perfect season, but also a state championship trophy to go with the ones they had earned in 1984 and 1979.