Nebraska at Kansas

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, October 20, 1940, page 1

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  Nebraska 53–⁠2 LAWRENCE, Kas., Oct. 19.-R- Mighty Nebraska crunched to a So to 2 victory over the University of Kansas football team today and with ridiculous ease maintained a record Of not having lost on the Jayhawks’ own field in A years. Although Ne braska’s ace back, Herman Rohrig, was on the bench with an arm injury all doubt as to the ultimate victor faded like the jingle of a juke box after the first eight minutes. Kan a invaded Nebraska territory but once under its own power and that late in the final period after the Nebraska bench had been swept of substitutes.

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  Evening star, October 20, 1940, page 28 (results column)

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  Len Eshmont and Fordham and the Rams took Pitt over the hurdles, A-12. De-emphasized Yale found the winning combination against Dart mouth and prevailed, 1871, as Ted Harrison completed q touchdown pass to John Reid in the last 80 seconds. Army and Harvard played q 6–⁠6 draw, while Holy Cross won over New York University, 1877. Bo McMillin’s hard-luck Indiana outfit, after dropping close decisions to Texas and Nebraska, finally got going and dropped Iowa from the unbeaten class. 1916. Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri won Big Six games as expected. Nebraska, the favorite, piled up 53–⁠2 count on Kansas; Missouri halted Iowa State, 30-l4. and Oklahoma out pointed Kansas State, 14–⁠0. Georgia Tech opened its South. eastern Conference season With Q decisive 1910 conquest q Wander.

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.

Officially, Nebraska leads 91–⁠23–⁠3; as played, 88–⁠18–⁠3 in the 109 games on file; the official count covers all 117 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.