Colorado at Nebraska

Saturday, November 14, 1953

Colorado beat Nebraska 14–⁠10. It was their 11th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 5–⁠5–⁠1.

AwayColorado6–⁠4 in 1953
14
HomeNebraska3–⁠6–⁠1 in 1953
10

FinalAttendance 36,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Colorado Line Holds To Beat Nebraska, 14-10

    Evening star, November 15, 1953, page 69

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    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.

Nebraska leads 49–⁠21–⁠2 in 72 meetings, counting the 61 since this game.

Recent meetings
2024Nebraska 28, Colorado 10
2023Colorado 36, Nebraska 14
2019Colorado 34, Nebraska 31
2018Colorado 33, Nebraska 28
2010Nebraska 45, Colorado 17
2009Nebraska 28, Colorado 20

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