Kansas at Nebraska
Saturday, October 23, 1943 Share
Nebraska beat Kansas 7–6. It was their 50th meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 35–4–3 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 55°F, low 48°F, 0.55 in. of rain
In the newspapers

Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 24, 1943, page 1
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Win After Defeats Msuled Nebraska II Beats Kansas State, 10 LINCOLN. Neb.. Oct. % CUP) Nebraska. maulod numerically IN previous ShowinGS this season, took advantage of a steady rain and a slippery ball today 10 defeat Kansas. Z 10 s. before a homecoming crowd in Memorial Stadium Walter Wilkins, playing his last game before entering the armed services next week. scored the Nebraska touchdown early in the opening period and Jim Hansen added the extra point. Charles Moffett bucked across from the 1-yard line in the sec ond for Kansas marker. The GorntruS+erS block d-the At tempted converge 10 keep intact their 27-year-long string Of VIC tories over the JayhawkerS.

The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., October 25, 1943, page 5 (results column)
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ARMY, NAVY AND NoTRE Dame ARE Still. LEADERS r,,ke.Ceorgiia Tech Fracas W. !, Outstanding South ern Clash ,ru YORK, Oct. 24-‘R-The ~ sur Saturdays bring the 1943 a’> .,,n season to an early eli p’ a.. weex,eno the schedule pro- VICE. ~s4.o Dame VS.. Navy at Cleve- a1 ,ro,y vs.. Pennsylvania at Phil sdelphia’ Nor+bves+ern .+ Evanston roro;, Tecb ~ A. anta. co,;forri. We c.1;for ,;s at Los Angeles. ND mis-, Is VS.. Southwestern Texas At Tulsa .o-,an d,,s - .. “ from that array of thrill 49, .5p football fanatics will have t g,,. Isl from which to pick the u %Is on Nov. s: S. ysyy vs.. Pennsylvania at Phil sdelrhia. Nr York. state at Atlanta. ‘‘S S@,thern California VS.. San Di- .s, Navy at Los Angeles. Purdue VS.. Minnesota at Min reapoHs, r * M at College Station. The schedule thus losses the .rr teams which have been how ,-r1 near the top in the Asso- ! r,-ed Press weekly polls-Notre ‘.ne Army, Navy and Pennsyl- r,ia-into a round-robin and pits nv one of the remaining highly led eIevens against a worthy he Irish. Quakers and Cadets, wing well within themselves, m easily last Saturday but Navy Id 10 90 all out to defeat Georgia -ech % to IA, with Hal Hamberg ,assing for three touchdowns and Scoring the fourth himself. Pennsylvania found Columbia’s 5e-draggled Lions even easier than the 80 to 0 score indicates while Yale’s ends hemmed in Army’s Glenn Davis but the remainder of the Cadet backs took up the burden for SO to Z verdict. Notre Dame topped 20 points for the fourth time this season in downing Illinois, Al to 0, as hometown farewell for Angelo Rertelli who is listed to report to the Marines at the end of the month. Michigan pasted Mime Sota’s worst defeat in history onto the record book with 40 to 6, scoring the first seven points in Is seconds. Purdue go three touchdowns in the final quarter to put down stubborn Iowa outfit % to 7. and Otto Graham personally shepherd ed Northwestern to a IS to 0 decjSion over Ohio States fuzz-faced lads. Indiana passed Wisconsin dizzy, 81 to 0. Nebraska registered mild sur p’lse by downing Kansas, 7 to 6. Tor the tnirtieth straight year but me upset III no-Wise compared to the u TO 7 setback Colgate dished out 10 Cornell with freshman FRANK Muelhauser in the hero’s role. Penn States IS to 0 triumph over Maryland and Pitts 10 to 0 conquest OF Bethany also were mid eyebrow lifters. Southern California, Washington ana Colorado College all moved AgAtr IN sectional consideration N their respective areas. The Golans, with George Callawan ,oSSlng to brother Howard for the loae score, downed College of Pa Ut-c, b to y, and Washington dump “a March field among the defeat ca teams. q to 7. Colorado Col .sse’ with It’s best elevens since cle days OF Dutch Clark, trimmed 0o u, University, 1856. me southwest’s toughest game vas Played under the lights and d dt’eF the wounds all had been TT.eSSed, Southwestern Institute of 1l ~ with Alvin Dark in the S S5yeT S seat, had knocked off TTa s. Of Texas, 27 to 6. M NeSas drubbed Rice, SO to O.. and W. M Iexas Aggies held Texas y W to scoreless draw. NAVY. -ou-S!ana State, with the 200 r ro ofeVe Van Buren, in front, [rspeased It’s early season over \. ‘t ga, u to S. Tulane sneaked IT, “ southern Methodist, IL to s, n |e forest measured VMI, 20 sco w. ana ID Georgia Pre-Flight out N ~ ! North Carolina Pre-Flight,
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 56% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Kansas–Nebraska gameOfficially, 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 67 since this game.
| 2010 | Nebraska 20, Kansas 3 | |
| 2009 | Nebraska 31, Kansas 17 | |
| 2008 | Nebraska 45, Kansas 35 | |
| 2007 | Kansas 76, Nebraska 39 | |
| 2006 | Nebraska 39, Kansas 32 | |
| 2005 | Kansas 40, Nebraska 15 |
Around this game
Kansas
- Next gamevs. Kansas StateOct. 30, 1943
- SeasonKansas in 1943
- ProgramKansas history and records
Nebraska
- Next gameat MissouriOct. 30, 1943
- SeasonNebraska in 1943
- ProgramNebraska history and records

