Pittsburgh at Nebraska

Saturday, November 12, 1932

Pittsburgh and Nebraska tied 0–⁠0. It was their seventh meeting; after it, Pittsburgh led the series 3–⁠1–⁠3.

AwayPittsburgh8–⁠1–⁠2 in 1932
0
HomeNebraska7–⁠1–⁠1 in 1932
0

FinalHigh 32°F, low 28°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Indianapolis times's story

    The Indianapolis times, Indianapolis [Ind.], November 14, 1932, page 10 (results column)

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    By Times Special NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Football will make its final big splurge next Saturday. Important struggles are scheduled for Thanksgiving day and later, but for the most part the col legians will take their last bow this week. A roundup today after Saturdays battle brought out the following Sec tional leaders: East Brown, Colgate. Pittsburgh and Army. Midwest-Michigan, Purdue and NOtre Dame. Rocky Mountain-Utah. Southwest-Texas Christian. Big Six-Nebraska. Missouri valley-OkIahoma A. and NJ Southern Conference-Auburn, louisiana State. Far west-Southern California. There we’re plenty of surprises over the week. END. One of the major upsets was the IA to past ing handed Texas U. by Texas Christian. Rice was ousted from the race by IA to 7 loss to Texas A. & NJ In the Southern Conference, Tennessee and Vanderbilt elm mated themselves from the picture with a scoreless tie game. 1t was the first tie for Tennessee, the Sec ond for Vandy. Auburn is unbeaten and united, walloping Florida Saturday. Pittsburgh’S national title hopes we’re jolted by the 0 to 0 tie with Nebraska. Two other eastern lead ers suffered setbacks, Penn bowling to Ohio State, 10 to 0, and Villa Nova losing to Detroit, % to IL. Colgate and Brown continued unbeaten, the former whipping SYRIA cuse, Is to o, and the Bears turn ing back the previously unbeaten Columbia Lions, z to s, with a last quarter drive. These rivals may settle the eastern title when they collide Thanksgiving day. Southern California ran wild against Oregon, winning 80 to O, while Washington and Washington State played a scoreless tie. Louis lana State, unbeaten in the south ern conference, dropped a 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)

Pittsburgh 55% to win.

Pittsburgh leads 15–⁠6–⁠3 in 24 meetings, counting the 17 since this game.

Recent meetings
2005Nebraska 7, Pittsburgh 6
2004Nebraska 24, Pittsburgh 17
1958Nebraska 14, Pittsburgh 6
1957Pittsburgh 34, Nebraska 0
1955Pittsburgh 21, Nebraska 7
1954Pittsburgh 21, Nebraska 7

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