Nebraska at Kansas
Saturday, October 28, 1950 Share
Nebraska beat Kansas 33–26. It was their 57th meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 38–8–3 in the games on file.
FinalHigh 80°F, low 51°FAttendance 39,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, October 29, 1950, page 44
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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.
The series
Every Nebraska–Kansas 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 60 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
Nebraska
- Next gamevs. MissouriNov. 4, 1950
- SeasonNebraska in 1950
- ProgramNebraska history and records
Kansas
- Next gameat UtahNov. 4, 1950
- SeasonKansas in 1950
- ProgramKansas history and records

