Kansas at Nebraska
Saturday, November 5, 1927 Share
Nebraska beat Kansas 47–13. It was their 34th meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 20–4–2 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 46°F, low 28°F
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 6, 1927, page 81
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Iinp-,,p and Summary. NEBRASKA OvERWHELMS KANSAS IN Alb GAME LINCOLN, Nebr.. November S LP. The University of Nebraska Corn huskers. primed for their intersectional clash with Pittsburgh next week end, passed and smashed their way to At tolls victory over the University of Kansas Jay Hawkers before home1 coming crowd of $4,000 persons today. The feature of the game came in the final period when Sloan. substitute for Fresnell, took Schmidt’s kickoff and ran 30 yards through the Kansas team for a touchdown.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Nebraska 83% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Kansas–Nebraska gameOfficially, Nebraska leads 91–23–3; as played, 88–18–3 in the 109 games on file; the official count covers all 117 meetings, counting the 83 since this game.
| 2010 | Nebraska 20, Kansas 3 | |
| 2009 | Nebraska 31, Kansas 17 | |
| 2008 | Nebraska 45, Kansas 35 | |
| 2007 | Kansas 76, Nebraska 39 | |
| 2006 | Nebraska 39, Kansas 32 | |
| 2005 | Kansas 40, Nebraska 15 |
Around this game
Kansas
- Next gameat OklahomaNov. 12, 1927
- SeasonKansas in 1927
- ProgramKansas history and records
Nebraska
- Next gameat PittsburghNov. 12, 1927
- SeasonNebraska in 1927
- ProgramNebraska history and records

