Montana State at Nebraska
Saturday, October 13, 1928 Share
Nebraska beat Montana State 26–6. It was their first meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 1–0.
FinalHigh 46°F, low 38°F, 0.13 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 15, 1928, page 36 (results column)
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N YEW YORK, October 15-Some M of the East’s foot ball cream al vi ready has Soured but there’s 4 one consolation for Navy. Pitt, West Virginia, Washington and Jefferson, Penn State, Fordham and others. Those who already have laid aside championship aspirations until next year will grow ever more numer- Gus. A glance of next Saturdays schedule reveals a fairly large group of battles between undefeated and untied teams. Army’s clash with Harvard at the Harvard Stadium offers the high,ight The Cadets, facing as strenuous a schedule as any team in the country, has taken over Boston University Southern Methodist and Providence in later, has trounced Springfield and North Carolina and has hopes, albeit none too strong, of adding Army to its string. Yale, which showed surprising strength in turning back Georgia, 21–6, last Saturday, meets Brown at New Haven. Tuss McLaughrys Bears had a stiff fight on their hands before they could drop Dayton, 1877, over the week end Big Job for Columbia. Columbia, successful enough in its first three games, will see what it can do toward stopping AL Marsters and the rest of the powerful Dartmouth squad. Columbia took Wesleyan much as she pleased and Dartmouth beat Allegheny on Saturday, but not until the Pennsylvanians had scored two touchdowns. Bucknell, which on Saturday beat Penn State, 60, for the second year in succession, meets the high-scoring La fayette crew coached by Herb Nc Cracken. Having tuned up her offensive at Johns Hopkins expense. $50, Syracuse travels to Lincoln, Nebr., to tackle the hardy Cornhuskers of Nebraska, who turned back Montana State, 26–6. Colgate, with her intersectional slate showing one defeat and one victory, meets Michigan State at Lansing. Col last start after losing to Vanderbilt at Nashville week ago. Michigan State revealed considerable power in rolling UP 38 points on Chicago “Y” College. Penn States defeat by Bucknell will send the Nittany lions into the battle with Pennsylvania the underdogs, but Princeton should be an overwhelming favorite to defeat Lehigh despite the Tigers surprising scoreless tie with Virginia Lehigh, trying hard to win her way back to foot ball glory, was doWned by Gettysburg, TO. Having disposed of Fordham, her metropolitan rival, “a to z, Chick Nee hans New York University eleven meets

The Bismarck tribune. (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, North Dakota, October 15, 1928, page 1 (results column)
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EAST FEATURES HARYARD-ARMY New York, Oct. 15.-(AP)-Some of the casts football cream already has soured, but there’s one consolaton for Navy, Pitt, West Virginia, Washington and Jefferson, Penn State, Fordham and others. Those who already have laid aside cham pionship aspirations until next year will grow ever more numerous. A glance at next Saturdays schedule reveals q fairly large group Of battles between undefeated and untied teams. Army’s clash with Harvard at the Harvard Stadium offers the high light. Yale, which showed surprising strength in turning back Georgia, 21–6, last Saturday, meets Brown at New Haven. Columbia, successful enough in it’s first three games, will see what it can do toward stopping AL Marsters and the rest of the powerful Dart mouth squad. Columbia took Wesleyan much as she pleased and Dart mouth beat Allegheny on Saturday but not until the Pennsylvanians had scored two touchdpwns. ) Having tuned up her offensive at Johns Hopkins expense, $50, SYRIA cuse travels to Lincoln, Nebraska. to tackle the hardy Cornhuskers Of Mebraska who turned back Montana State, 26–6.
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 79% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Montana State–Nebraska gameNebraska leads 2–0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.
| 1930 | Nebraska 53, Montana State 7 | |
| 1928 | Nebraska 26, Montana State 6 |
Around this game
Montana State
- Next gamevs. Northern ColoradoOct. 20, 1928
- SeasonMontana State in 1928
- ProgramMontana State history and records
Nebraska
- Next gamevs. SyracuseOct. 20, 1928
- SeasonNebraska in 1928
- ProgramNebraska history and records

