Nebraska at Pittsburgh
Saturday, November 18, 1939 Share
Nebraska beat Pittsburgh 14–13. It was their 14th meeting; after it, Pittsburgh led the series 9–2–3.
FinalHigh 60°F, low 45°F, 0.02 in. of rainAttendance 30,000
In the newspapers
The Nome nugget, Alaska, November 20, 1939, page 1 (results column)
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Football Scores Football Final November 18 Cornell 35-Dartmouth 6 Princeton 13-Yale 2 North Carolina 3-Duke 13 Carnegie Tech 0-Holycross 21 Nebraska 14-Pitt 13 Michigan 19-Penn IT St. Marys 0-Firdham IA Illinois 0-Ohio State 21 Tulane 25-Columbia 0 Northwestern 0-Norte Dame Oklahoma 6-Missouri ‘ Minnesota 9-IoWa 13 Georgia Tech 6-Alabama 0 Vanderbilt 0-Tennessee Is Texas Christian 19-Texas 25 Texas A and M 19-Rice 0 Oregon State 21-California 0 Washington State 7-Stanford Santa Clara 0-UcLA 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 63% to win. Nebraska won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Nebraska–Pittsburgh gamePittsburgh leads 15–6–3 in 24 meetings, counting the 10 since this game.
| 2005 | Nebraska 7, Pittsburgh 6 | |
| 2004 | Nebraska 24, Pittsburgh 17 | |
| 1958 | Nebraska 14, Pittsburgh 6 | |
| 1957 | Pittsburgh 34, Nebraska 0 | |
| 1955 | Pittsburgh 21, Nebraska 7 | |
| 1954 | Pittsburgh 21, Nebraska 7 |
Around this game
Nebraska
- Next gamevs. OklahomaNov. 25, 1939
- SeasonNebraska in 1939
- ProgramNebraska history and records
Pittsburgh
- Next gameat Penn StateNov. 25, 1939
- SeasonPittsburgh in 1939
- ProgramPittsburgh history and records