Kansas State at Nebraska

Saturday, October 11, 1952

Nebraska beat Kansas State 27–⁠14. It was their 37th meeting; after it, Nebraska led the series 30–⁠4–⁠3 as played.

AwayKansas State1–⁠9 in 1952
14
HomeNebraska5–⁠4–⁠1 in 1952
27

FinalAttendance 40,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: CoIIeqe Football

    Evening star, October 13, 1952, page 18 (results column)

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    CoIIeqe Football SQUAD in the conference. How ever, as of today, Purdue, which trounced Iowa, ALA, in its last outing, stands at the head OF the class with 20 league record. Princeton’s 1877 defeat at the hands of Penn, strangely. was not a surprise. The Quakers were known to be powerful. while princeton, without the services OF the graduated Dick Kazmaier, was an unknown quantity. Penn now should have no trouble sweeping to the Ivy League crown. held the last two years by the Tigers. The nsas-Oklahoma–N Nebraska battle in the Big Seven probably ended Saturday, when Neoraska’s hard luck kid, Bobby Reynolds, was hurt during the Cornhuskers’ 27–⁠14 triumph over Kansas state. This is the second year in a row Reynolds has been injured and it’s doubtful if his team can get along very well without him. This should narrow the race down to Oklahoma and Kansas, who meet headon this week at Lawrence, Kans. This one should settle things for the season in the league, Both warmed up to their tasks Saturday. the Sooners man handling Texas, 1920. and Kan sas annihilating Iowa State, 43-O. A Scrambled Race. In the Southwest Conference. there isn’t an undefeated team in the loop, which leaves matters back where they were at the beginning of the season. The de- Tending champion, Texas Chris tian. still is the choice by default. The Horned Frogs go against Texas A8zM this week. The conference goes into full-scale opera tions Saturday. so the picture should be cleared somewhat in a week or two. In the Rocky Mountain Conference, the eventual champion probably will be decided this week when Idaho State and Colorado State, the two top powers. tangle at Pocatello. Houston is the sur prise leader in the Missouri VAL ley, after clobbering the defending champion, University Of Tulsa 1877. Georgia Tech might get tussle from Alabama and Tennessee fol the Southeastern title. Duke heads the Southern Conference.

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 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Officially, Nebraska leads 78–⁠15–⁠2; as played, 77–⁠15–⁠3 in 95 meetings, counting the 58 since this game.

Recent meetings
2010Nebraska 48, Kansas State 13
2009Nebraska 17, Kansas State 3
2008Nebraska 56, Kansas State 28
2007Nebraska 73, Kansas State 31
2006Nebraska 21, Kansas State 3
2005Nebraska 27, Kansas State 25

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