Colorado at Nebraska
Saturday, November 14, 1953 Share
Colorado beat Nebraska 14–10. It was their 11th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 5–5–1.
FinalAttendance 36,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, November 15, 1953, page 69
Read the text
Colorado Line Holds To Beat Nebraska, 14–10 LINCOLN, Nebr., Nov. IA gallant Colorado line put itself in terrible hole in the last two minutes, but held to win a 14–10 football game from Nebraska today before $4,000 fans. Colorado had grabbed the lead in the third period on the great pass catching and running of the Big Seven’s best pass-grabbing end, Gary Knafelc. But in that fourth period the Colorado Buffaloes gave their followers headaches by an error of their own, A Colorado offside gave Ne braSka the ball on the Colorado five but the Bluffs held firmly, taking the ball on the one. Colorado – o z Ola Nebraska o 3 O-IO Nebraska scoring: Touchdowns-Bordogma. ConVersion-Novak. Field goal Colorado scoring: Touchdowns-Wilson. Knafelc. COnVerYOnS--Hunt Q
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)
Colorado 56% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Colorado–Nebraska gameNebraska leads 49–21–2 in 72 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.
| 2024 | Nebraska 28, Colorado 10 | |
| 2023 | Colorado 36, Nebraska 14 | |
| 2019 | Colorado 34, Nebraska 31 | |
| 2018 | Colorado 33, Nebraska 28 | |
| 2010 | Nebraska 45, Colorado 17 | |
| 2009 | Nebraska 28, Colorado 20 |
Around this game
Colorado
- Next gameat Colorado StateNov. 28, 1953
- SeasonColorado in 1953
- ProgramColorado history and records
Nebraska
- Next gamevs. OklahomaNov. 21, 1953
- SeasonNebraska in 1953
- ProgramNebraska history and records

