Kansas at Nebraska

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, October 12, 1941, page 39

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  Nebraska Whips Kansas, $40; Francis Proves His MettIe in the third period, dazed by the impact of three tacklers. hurled a long toss that Dale Bradley picked off on the Husker 25 and carried back to the Kansas II behind a wall of Husker linemen. Then, with fourth and four, Vike Francis, who openly boasts he is out for All-America honors, ripped through the middle to the Kansas 2. Bradley couldn’t shove the ball over, but Francis scored the touchdown with a smash that carried him S yards into the end zone. 1t was a parade after that.

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 69 since this game.