History has forgotten the actual score of the first football game played at the school now called Kansas State University.

On Dec. 2, 1892, a team from Kansas State Agricultural College played its first game. At "quarter back" was a sophomore from Colfax, Ill., named A.D. Benson. Benson had introduced his schoolmates to football when he arrived at KSAC in 1891.

The sport, however, was quickly banned by the college. Five years later, the school's newspaper, the K-State Industrialist, remarked, "It is hoped that our students have the good sense to play even football without violence, but the game as sometimes played is next to barbarism."

In 1896, KSAC played the first game now recorded in K-State's list of all-time scores. A team coached by Ira Pratt traveled to Fort Riley on Thanksgiving Day and lost to a squad comprised of soldiers, 14-0. Later that fall, KSAC played Fort Riley again, and this time the game ended in a 6-6 tie.

First Night Game

On Oct. 7, 1932, the Kansas State Wildcats played the first night football game in school history. The team traveled to Salina, Kan., to play Kansas Wesleyan that Friday evening and won the contest, 52-6, before a crowd of about 4,000. All-time great Ralph Graham, known as The Rammer, set a K-State single-game record that still stands by scoring 27 points on four touchdowns and three extra points.