Nebraska at Missouri

Saturday, October 26, 1929

Nebraska and Missouri tied 7–⁠7. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 10–⁠3–⁠2 in the games on file.

AwayNebraska4–⁠1–⁠3 in 1929
7
HomeMissouri5–⁠2–⁠1 in 1929
7

FinalHigh 73°F, low 38°F

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Nebraska, Missouri Match Air attacks and Fight to u Tie

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1929, page 75

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    Nebraska, Missouri Match Air attacks and Fight to u Tie ter, and Lee Louis Derry sliced through the Husker right tackle for the touch down. Bernard Schaff kicked the extra point from placement The 1928 cham pions came back strong in the final half Nebraska’s touchdown advance started in midfield after the two mighty foot ball machines traded honors in intercepting passes. Marvin Paul. Husker reserve halfback, cut through the whole Tiger eleven to the 18-yard line, IT. yard gain. Sloan passed to Hokuf, who fell across the goal for points. Sloan kicked the seventh and tying point.

  • The New Britain herald's story: TWO SCORING ACES ID MEET SATURDAY B00th-MarSterS Duel Scheduled Many Intersectional Games

    New Britain herald, Connecticut, October 28, 1929, page 11 (results column)

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    TWO SCORING ACES ID MEET SATURDAY B00th-MarSterS Duel Scheduled Many Intersectional Games New York, Oct. 2S [Pl-Two fam fly quarrels, one in New England ana the other in California, stand cut this week on football slate otherwise featured by a flock of in tersectional struggles. me relative merits of two of tbc casts greatest scoring aces, Albje boo’h or Yale and Al Marsters of Dartmouth. as well as the sectional champlonship aspirations of each team, will be involved when inc urceh and Blue collide at New Ha- ven. Dartmouth has never beaten Yale ana must shake off this jinx as well as check Booth 10 win next Satur- day, When Swede Oberlander was wearing the green. Dartmouth’s hes; was l4-l4 tic with the Ellis. Now It Is Marsters’ turn to attempt what TO other Dartmouth ace has been able to do Booth, Iales’ vital spark, now has dashed in to win two straight for inc Blue, against Brown and Army. He iias scored five touchdowns in sue cesslVe games. His dazzling per romance Saturday eclipscd even the great Red Caglc. army’s captain, If Will be difficult to keep this l44- pound arttul dodger off the al Aherlca slate If he repeats against so 1lashy rival as Marsters. For Pacific Title The championship of the Pacific coast conference will be at stake when Southern California meets Cal lfornla at Los Angeles in the second struggle of far western giants. The IroJans hurdlcd their biggest ob stacIa when they beat Stanford, to U, saturday. Though rated favor lteS, trey may find Benny Iom and the rest of thc Golden Bears diff cult 10 stop. Ilttsburgh and Notrc Dame, two oihcr unh”atcn arrays and strcng contendcrs for national honors, meet lnters”cttonal foes this week. The l ahthers have s2alped Duke and Nc biasNa. They hope to repeat against Ohio State, which had an unblcm- iShfd slate until held 10 scCrc.psa lIe Saturday by indiana. Notrc Damc-Gcorsiu Tech No’re Dame, seeking more re- Venge, moves south 10 play Georgia Tech. The HOosicrs so far have turn. cd the tables on two of their 1928 onquerors Wisconsin and Carnegie. Last year Georgia Tech beat Rock no’s Ramhlcrs for the first time, but the Tornado does not figure 10 re- l’oat Already having lost to North Carolina and Tulane. Two southern clercns move ur nto the Boston sector ti2ls week. Duke, already battered by Pitts ‘uTgh, Navy anl Nil!anova. has no much chance as@inst Boston college. ‘ut Florida nay h9nd Harvard q surprise. The G2tors came 10 life }2t”r.laE to s’oo the wild s@‘urgo of 70 Ge-r..a i,u)tdcEa, core TOTS oi Yale. At the same time H”r.a. ,,3 absc”h-rc q 6rUhIing at L ‘%ds of D T. .!,. Princeton and Ch;”aco renew ,tValry that in 70 was marked by nc Of the most sensational inter Co ctional bottles c5cr r’”ycd. Tn, ‘igcrs, after two defeats, tied Navy saturday while Chicago was over yhclmcd ly Purdue. (r1rr1f.. ..rf1 ;harpc’a Washington university “am at St. Louis. Army defends tn .amparts a~ainst South Dakota. Many sectional Classics Sectional classics make up mos! { the weeks other star attractions ‘nrduo, now setting the Big Ten acc, hopes 10 hurdle Wisconsin. Il inois must beat Northwestern to tay in the running while Minnc- ota’s strong array, also unbeatcn lgures to repcl Indiana. In the southwest. the champion ‘eNas Longhorns grapplc Southern Methodist in q game that may de. idle the 1929 title. The southern I’l’IlNt SCldIllplc VIII ma Icn- lessee attacking Auburn, Tulane looking up with Georgia, Clemson ackling the Kentucky Wildcats and ‘andcrhilt playing Alabama in anne of championship significance. The Big Six favoritcs. Nebraska nd Missouri, fought to a 7–⁠7 tie aturday and this week turn their ttention to Kansas and the Az ics. respectively. In the Rocky fountain area, Utah’s champions pposc Brigham Young while Dutch lark leads Colorado college agains. h” Utah Aggie in an effort to stay l the conference vanguard.

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)

Missouri 53% to win.

Officially, Nebraska leads 65–⁠36–⁠3; as played, 60–⁠33–⁠3 in the 96 games on file; the official count covers all 104 meetings, counting the 81 since this game.

Recent meetings
2010Nebraska 31, Missouri 17
2009Nebraska 27, Missouri 12
2008Missouri 52, Nebraska 17
2007Missouri 41, Nebraska 6
2006Nebraska 34, Missouri 20
2005Missouri 41, Nebraska 24

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