Iowa State at Nebraska
Thursday, November 28, 1929 Share
Nebraska beat Iowa State 31–12. It was their 24th meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 17–3–1 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 36°F, low 17°F, 0.39 in. of snowAttendance 11,149
In the newspapers

Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, November 29, 1929, page 1
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Bibles TEAM CHAMPION Cornhuskers Romp A W a v With Iowa 31–12; Missouri End KANSAS CITY. Nov. 29.-CR- Running true to form In its con- GLIDING duo Of games. the Big Six football conference closed its season yesterday with Nebraska’s Corn huskers triumphantly perched atop the conference heap for the consecutive year. The Nebraskans. playing for the first year under the tutelage Of Coach Dana X. Bible, made q Thanksgiving banquet Of the oft defeated team of Iowa State as they won at Ames, 81 to II. Missouri gained runner-up honors In the only other holiday conference game. defeating Oklahoma at Col umbia. Is To 0. The Kansas Aggies, dark horse Of the circuit, finished third, with three victories and two defeats. Missouri had three victor les. a defeat and a tie. the latter with Nebraska. The Huskers won three and tied two. OA1nAAOAA4as w 4OSlIl6 Yesterday 10 the Tigers, dropped from a tie for second place to fourth. The S0oners gained an even 500 percentage BY scoring two victories, two defeats and a tie. University Of Kansas and Iowa State trailed in that order. Kansas won two and lost three, while the Iowans lost all their five games.

The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], November 29, 1929, page 1 (results column)
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Plays Mark Turkey Tits Davidson Back Runs 102 Yards, but Fails to Cross Goal. NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Dramatic events marked the close of the foot ball season except for a few scat tered games Saturday and next month. Pittsburgh, the East’s most power full eleven, had to stage a final half rally to overcome Penn States to 6 lead and beat the Nittany Lions 20 to Z. Toby Uansa, Pitts great half back. held the candle for Pug Parkinson, Fits 200-pound full back, who scored every one Of his teams twenty pOinls. Saved by long Pass Down south. Tennessee had to fling a 40-yard pass in the twilight to Tic Kentucky. 70 6, and stave of It’s nrst defeat IN three yeats. kentucky gained 226 yards 10 Tcnnc5s2c’s %. TGlano completed its season I’M defeated b. bring Il to 0 vic tory over louisiana State and virtually ciincGcd The southern title. Captain Thad Book of Davidson college staged q 102-yard run against Duke but failed to score a touchdown. He ran from eight yards behind his own goal line to Dukes 6-yard line. Davidson won 13 to II. 101 Yards for Touchdown Dick Gentle, PENIS brilliant half back and new captain, caught the opening kickoff of the second half and ran 101 yards for touchdown against Cornell. Penn won II to 7. Colgate established itself as one of the casts best teams by over whelming Brown, 80 to O, the game ending in a binding snowstorm. Western Maryland beat Mullen berg. to 0, when Charlie Bates, United Press all-eastern end, caught two long passes and won its tenth straight game of the season. Clark Hinkle, Bucknell full back and United Press all-eastern back, scored eight touchdowns and SO points as his team smashed Dickison, rs to 0. giving him the eastern individual scoring lead with 1913 points. Toilet Breaks Leg Beryl Toilet. New York unive.sity’s star half back, broke his leg in the first few plays of the game and Carnegie Tech beat the Violejs, 20 to 0, turning two N. Y. L. fumbles into touchdownS via the aerial route in the first period. In the far west st. Marys (CaD crushed the U. of Oregon. 81 to 6, but the Gaels had their goal line crossed for the first time this season. California beat Montana, II to 0. Nebraska, Big Six champion, closed its season with a 31–12 vic tory over Iowa State. Missouri clinched second place in the Big Six by beating Oklahoma, 10 to 0. An 65-yard run by John Sisk tor a touchdown featured Marquette’s % to 6 victory over the Kansas Aggies in an intersectional game. Georgia’S erratic eleven roppled Alabama, IL to 0.
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 87% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Iowa State–Nebraska gameOfficially, Nebraska leads 86–17–2; as played, 84–16–2 in the 102 games on file; the official count covers all 105 meetings, counting the 81 since this game.
| 2010 | Nebraska 31, Iowa State 30 | |
| 2009 | Iowa State 9, Nebraska 7 | |
| 2008 | Nebraska 35, Iowa State 7 | |
| 2007 | Nebraska 35, Iowa State 17 | |
| 2006 | Nebraska 28, Iowa State 14 | |
| 2005 | Nebraska 27, Iowa State 20 |
Around this game
Iowa State
- Next gameat IllinoisOct. 4, 1930
- SeasonIowa State in 1929
- ProgramIowa State history and records
Nebraska
- Next gamevs. Texas A&MOct. 4, 1930
- SeasonNebraska in 1929
- ProgramNebraska history and records

