1924 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Colgate at Nebraska
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Date: October 18
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 20,000
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Nebraska at Kansas
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Nebraska
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0 |
0 |
14 |
0 |
14 |
| Kansas |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
7 |
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Missouri at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Missouri |
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
| • Nebraska
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0 |
7 |
0 |
7 |
14 |
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Date: November 1
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Nebraska at Notre Dame
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Nebraska |
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
| • Notre Dame
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0 |
14 |
14 |
6 |
34 |
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Oregon State at Nebraska
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Date: November 27
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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The 1924 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1924 college football season. The team was coached by Fred Dawson and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Despite a bit of a performance dropoff last season, compared to 1921 and 1922, Nebraska was still riding on a wave of success: Three straight conference titles, two straight defeats of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen (which were also Notre Dame's only losses over the past two seasons), and a modern, new stadium to play their games in. Coach Dawson was returning for his fourth year, which met or exceeded the length of tenure of all but two of the fifteen coaches preceding him.
Nebraska brought Big 10 co-champion Illinois to Lincoln with aims to make up for losing in Champaign last year. The game plan focused on stopping Red Grange, who ran all over the Cornhuskers for three touchdowns last year. The plan was a success, and Grange was mostly neutralized. Both teams scored early before shutting each other down, and the 6-6 tie continued until late in the fourth quarter. Finally, Illinois managed a field goal to escape Lincoln with a narrow victory, and narrowed the gap in their series with Nebraska to 2-4.
The Cornhuskers still had some confidence coming into this game, after the strong showing against the powerhouse Illinois team last week and being perfect against Oklahoma in every game played between the squads. The Sooners were the better prepared team this day, however, shutting down every aspect of Nebraska's efforts and going ahead 14-0 by the half. The Cornhuskers tried to recover later in the game but could only come up with 7, and dropped their first game ever to Oklahoma in five meetings.
Nebraska was awakened by the stunning loss to Oklahoma and came to life when Colgate came calling at Memorial Stadium as one of the season's eastern opponents. The Raiders were outplayed and outclassed in nearly every aspect of the game, and the Cornhuskers sent Colgate home in disappointment. This was the only game ever played between these programs.
One of the oldest series in Nebraska history was continued when the Cornhuskers arrived in Lawrence to battle the Jayhawks. For the entire first half, both teams held each other off, but Kansas finally was overcome in the second half. The string of frustration that Kansas had endured, never yet winning a home game against Nebraska, was continued yet another year as Kansas fell farther behind in the series to 9-20-2.
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