Nebraska at Kansas

Saturday, October 28, 1950

Nebraska beat Kansas 33–⁠26. It was their 57th meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 38–⁠8–⁠3 in the games on file.

AwayNebraska6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1950
33
HomeKansas6–⁠4 in 1950
26

FinalHigh 80°F, low 51°FAttendance 39,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Nebraska Defeats Kansas, 33 10 26

    Evening star, October 29, 1950, page 44

    Read the text

    Nebraska Defeats Kansas, 33 10 26 LAWRENCE. Kas., Oct. o. Nebraska’s great sophomore half back. Bobby Reynolds, was par TALLY stopped but his inspired Cornhusker teammates pitched in to help him to 1926 football victory over the Kansas Jayhawks today. Kansas, the Big Seven Confer ence leader until today. scored two touchdowns early in the first quarter and the Jayhawk sup porters thought they had No. 3 in the bag until Nebraska caught fire. Nebraska slashed successfully at the Kansas tackles and ends and mixed few timely pass plays for a convincing victory in an offensive thriller that would have done jus tice to any post-season bowl game. Kansas ------------ II = EsSS Nebraska scoring: Touchdowns-Duci, Reiger, Simon. Hoy. Reynolds. conversions-Reynolds go. Kansas scoring: Touchdowns-stinson 2. Amberg. Hoag. Conversions-Cashell 2.

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)

Kansas 73% to win. Nebraska pulled the upset.

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 60 since this game.

Recent meetings
2010Nebraska 20, Kansas 3
2009Nebraska 31, Kansas 17
2008Nebraska 45, Kansas 35
2007Kansas 76, Nebraska 39
2006Nebraska 39, Kansas 32
2005Kansas 40, Nebraska 15

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