Colorado at Nebraska

Saturday, November 16, 1957

Colorado beat Nebraska 27–⁠0. It was their 15th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 7–⁠7–⁠1.

AwayColorado6–⁠3–⁠1 in 1957
27
HomeNebraska1–⁠9 in 1957
0

FinalHigh 41°F, low 32°F, 1.61 in. of snowAttendance 28,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Colorado Romps To 20 Decision Over Nebraska

    Evening star, Washington, D.C., November 17, 1957, page 1

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    Colorado Romps To 20 Decision Over Nebraska LINCOLN, Nebr., Nov. Is up. -Colorado’s Bob Stransky and his hard-driving backfield COL leagues shredded Nebraska’s defenses today as the Buffaloes romped to a 27–⁠0 Big Eight football victory before $4,000. Vaulting into a 300 half time lead on touchdown drives of rs, 70. and SO yards, Colo RADIO added another score in the third quarter and coasted to its second win in five conference starts. Nebraska mustered nothing even resembling an offensive threat and went % minutes before registering a first down. Stransky. the Nations top ground gamer going into todays contest, lived up to his billing but received exceptional help from such backfield mates as George Adams, Eddie Doven. Howard Cook, Ray Engel, Ell win 1ndorf, Ralph Herbst and Bob Dowler. Nebraska --------- o 0 o % Colorado scoring: Touchdown

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 76% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Nebraska leads 49–⁠21–⁠2 in 72 meetings, counting the 57 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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