Oklahoma at Nebraska

Saturday, November 27, 1943

Oklahoma beat Nebraska 26–⁠7. It was their 23rd meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 16–⁠4–⁠3.

AwayOklahoma7–⁠2 in 1943
26
HomeNebraska2–⁠6 in 1943
7

FinalHigh 28°F, low 18°F

In the newspapers

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story: Oklahoma Sooners Down Nebraska Huskers, 26-7

    The Wilmington morning star, Wilmington, N.C., November 28, 1943, page 9

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    Oklahoma Sooners Down Nebraska Huskers, 26–⁠7 LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 27.-(RH Oklahoma scored the first Sooner football victory in history on Ne braska sod today, taking a 26 to Z win before 1000 that gave the Okla Romans a c,ean slate Of five VIC tories and no defeats in Big Six conference play this season. The Sooners rolled the count up to 10 to in the second period. The march was from the Oklahoma 35 and featured Brumley’s hard run ming and forward lateral from Lebow to Wooten to Brumley for “a yards. Brumley plunged over from the one foot line and kicked the point. A personally conducted tour by Brumley got the Sooners another touchdown in the third period. A fourth score came in the first min. ute of the las period after Brumley worked the bal. down to Ne braska’s two yard line. Lloyd Meinert, sub back, scored. After that Sooner subs played out the contest, yielding a touchdown to Nebraska on two passes and a short plunge

  • The Detroit evening times's story: Sooners Rornp Over Nebraska

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, November 28, 1943, page 1

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    Sooners Rornp Over Nebraska LINCOLN, Neb.. Nov II CUP) Oklahoma’s Big Six champions experienced little difficulty today IN defeating Nebraska, 26–⁠7. Oklahoma scored once in every period and II was only after a new Sooner team was substituted in the final period that Nebraska opened a long pass attack that brought It’s touchdown. Lebow passed to Wooten for the first Sooner touchdown. In the second period Brumley plunged 9 yards for another. rhen followed with a plunge from the 1-foot line IN the third period Neinert scored for the SoonerS on the second play of the final period

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)

Oklahoma 75% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Oklahoma leads 47–⁠38–⁠3 in 88 meetings, counting the 65 since this game.

Recent meetings
2022Oklahoma 49, Nebraska 14
2021Oklahoma 23, Nebraska 16
2010Oklahoma 23, Nebraska 20Big 12 Championship Game
2009Nebraska 10, Oklahoma 3
2008Oklahoma 62, Nebraska 28
2006Oklahoma 21, Nebraska 7Big 12 Championship Game

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