Nebraska at Illinois

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  Evening star, September 27, 1953, page 71

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  CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,, Sept. 26.- Sophomore Halfback j. c. Caroline switched from a goat to hero role today to help error plagued Illinois overcome two touchdown lag in the last pc riod for an opening 21–⁠21 tie with tough Nebraska. Caroline. swift Negro from Columbia. S. c., miscued twice at critical points. A Caroline mistake on an attempted punt set up the second Nebraska touch down. and the Cornhuskers held a 21–⁠7 lead before Caroline raillied the Illini with a twisting 73yard touchdown run. A shirt-sleeved memorial sta dium crowd of 40,011 saw Illinois start impressively with 73-yard touchdown march on the opening kickoff. A seven yard scoring pass from quarter back EN- Lindbeck to end Cliff

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.

Nebraska leads 14–⁠7–⁠1 in 22 meetings, counting the 14 since this game.