Kansas State at Nebraska

Saturday, November 30, 1940

No. 8 Nebraska beat Kansas State 20–⁠0. It was their 25th meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 21–⁠2–⁠2 as played.

AwayKansas State2–⁠7 in 1940
0
Home8Nebraska8–⁠2 in 1940
20

FinalHigh 34°F, low 17°FAttendance 20,000

In the newspapers

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    The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, December 2, 1940, page 5 (results column)

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    s||||l2{sf|| The following are final scores oi football games played last. Sat- urday: Army o; Navy IA. Holy Cross 0; Boston College T. Fordham 26; New York Univer- sity 0. Duquesne IA Carnegie Tech T. Georgia Tech 19; Georgia 21 Pittsburgh 2; Duke 12. Washington and Lee T; Maryland ‘, tie. Texas Christian 0; Southern Methodist 16. Mississippi State 13; Alabama 0. Kansas State 0; Nebraska 20 Tennessee 20; Vanderbilt 0. Rice 21; Baylor 12. Stanford 13; California T. Washington State 9; Washington 8. Marquette IA; Arizona IT. Oregon 20; Oregon State 0. UCLA 12; Southern California 28. Oakland 13; Santa Clara 33. The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL aska newspaper.

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 89% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Nebraska leads 78–⁠15–⁠2; as played, 77–⁠15–⁠3 in 95 meetings, counting the 70 since this game.

Recent meetings
2010Nebraska 48, Kansas State 13
2009Nebraska 17, Kansas State 3
2008Nebraska 56, Kansas State 28
2007Nebraska 73, Kansas State 31
2006Nebraska 21, Kansas State 3
2005Nebraska 27, Kansas State 25

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