Colorado at Nebraska
Saturday, November 16, 1957 Share
Colorado beat Nebraska 27–0. It was their 15th meeting; after it, the series stood even at 7–7–1.
FinalHigh 41°F, low 32°F, 1.61 in. of snowAttendance 28,000
In the newspapers

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.
The series
Every Colorado–Nebraska gameNebraska leads 49–21–2 in 72 meetings, counting the 57 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 gamevs. Iowa StateNov. 23, 1957
- SeasonColorado in 1957
- ProgramColorado history and records
Nebraska
- Next gamevs. OklahomaNov. 23, 1957
- SeasonNebraska in 1957
- ProgramNebraska history and records

