Eastern Kentucky vs. Nebraska–Omaha
Saturday, January 1, 1955, Tangerine Bowl Share
Nebraska–Omaha beat Eastern Kentucky 7–6. It was their only meeting on record.
FinalAttendance 12,759
MVP Bill EnglehardtWikipedia
In the newspapers
Evening star, District of Columbia, January 2, 1955, page 46
Read the text
Omaha Eleven Nips East Kentucky, 7–6 ORLANDO, Fla, Jan. 1.-Bill Englehardt. the Nations leading ground gamer among small col Ieges, passed and ran Omaha : University to a 7–6 victory over Eastern Kentucky before a crowd : Of 12,759 in the Tangerine Bowl tonight. It was Omaha’s 14th straight football victory in a streak extending back to 1858. A conversion by Rudy Rotella provided the margin of victory and gave Eastern Kentucky its first los In Is games. Engelhardt passed 80 yards to Rotella for the score. Eastern, its hard running at tack stymied much of the time through the early stages, started rolling after an Omaha tumble midway of the second quarter Emil Radik bobbled it at his 48 and Jim Janlon pounced on It for the Kentucky team. Quarterback Bobby Lenderman passed nine yards to Paul Greene for the Eastern Ken lucky score. Ernie Rigrish tried for the conversion but his kick was slightly wide. Omaha T q q o. Eastern Kentucky 20 q q U-f Omaha scoring: Touchdown--Rotella Conversions -Eneelhardt. Eastern Kentucky scoring: Touch. doWn--CFeanA
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–Omaha 64% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
Nebraska–Omaha leads 1–0 in their only meeting.