Nebraska at Colorado

Saturday, October 14, 1950

Colorado beat Nebraska 28–⁠19. It was their eighth meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 5–⁠3.

AwayNebraska6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1950
19
HomeColorado5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1950
28

FinalHigh 85°F, low 59°FAttendance 25,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Saturdays Grid Stars

    Evening star, District of Columbia, October 16, 1950, page 21 (results column)

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    Saturdays Grid Stars FRANCIS (REDS) BAGNELL, Penn-Piled Up 400 yards, passing and running; scored three touch downs and passed to another in Penn’s 1926 victory over Dart mouth. FRANK SMITH, Miami Scored two touchdowns, ran up 1875 yards as Miami (Fla) upset Purdue, 20–⁠14. AL POLLARD, Army–Scored one touchdown on 12-yard run, set up others with line smashes as Army beat Michigan, 27–⁠6. BOB BLAIK, Army–Passed 80 yards for one touchdown, passed 80 yards to set up another in Army victory. BILLY VESSELS, Oklahoma Key ground gamer all day, he Sprinted II yards for touchdown that gave Oklahoma 14–⁠13 win over Texas. DICK DAVIS AND ED BUT LER, Wake Forest-Figured in laSt-minute pass that beat North Carolina, 1877. WALTER KLEVAY, Ohio State Returned kickoff 81 yards for touchdown that helped beat Indiana, 26–⁠14. JEFF FLEISCHMANN, Cornell Scored two touchdowns in 28–⁠7 victory over Harvard. NAL COOK, Georgia–Made numerous long gains and scored two touchdownS in 27–⁠0 triumph over Mississippi State. DON STONESIFER, Northwest ern-Caught 13 passes, a Big Ten record. and scored two touch downs in 1876 victory over Mime sofa. Jim TABOR, Vanderbilt-Averaged 9.4 yards per carry in lead ing Vandy to 20–⁠14 victory over Mississippi. AL EGLER, Colgate-Scored two touchdowns, one on 30-yard sprint, to help defeat Holy Cross, 1928. BILL McCOLL. Stanford Caught one touchdown pass, made other important catches and played outstanding defensive game in 1918 win over Santa Clara. FRED BENNERS, S.M.U.-His passes softened up Oklahoma A. and M. for Mustangs $50 victory. VITO PARILLI, Kentucky – Connected for 1913 yards. new Southeastern Conference passing record, and five touchdowns in Alt victory over Cincinnati. JOHNNY BRIGHT, Drake-Ran and passed for 395 yards to lead Drake to 34–⁠18 win over Iowa State Teachers. LOU D’ACHILLE, Indiana – Completed 20 of 38 passes to tie Big Ten record in Indiana’s loss to Ohio State, 26–⁠14. ED WITHERS, Wisconsin – Scored first touchdown in Wisconsins 14–⁠0 victory over Iowa on 81 yard run-back pass interception. Intercepted two other Iowa passes for 104-yard total. BOB REYNOLDS, Nebraska Scored three touchdowns, one on 81-yard run, in NebraSka’s 28–⁠19 losing effort against Colorado

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 50% to win. Colorado won as Elo’s underdog.

Nebraska leads 49–⁠21–⁠2 in 72 meetings, counting the 64 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Nebraska 28, Colorado 10
2023Colorado 36, Nebraska 14
2019Colorado 34, Nebraska 31
2018Colorado 33, Nebraska 28
2010Nebraska 45, Colorado 17
2009Nebraska 28, Colorado 20

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