1927 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Grinnell at Nebraska
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Date: October 15
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Syracuse at Nebraska
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Date: October 29
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Kansas at Nebraska
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13 |
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47 |
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Date: November 5
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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New York University at Nebraska
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Date: November 24
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 35,000
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The 1927 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1927 college football season. The team was coached by Ernest Bearg and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Coach Bearg's third season began with a reduction from the record 60 players on the Cornhusker squad in 1926, heading into the 1927 season with 45 on the roster. Nebraska had not performed well in Bearg's first season, finishing well down in the conference standings, but had improved to 2nd place in 1926. 1927 seemed as likely as any for Bearg to attain his first conference title.
Iowa State was first up for the 1927 slate, and coach Bearg made an effort to get all of the new Cornhusker players in the game. Nebraska only scored six in the contest, but still secured the shutout victory to open conference play and advance farther ahead in the series to 17-4-1.
Although Nebraska racked up impressive statistics and seemed at times to move the ball with ease, time and time again the Missouri squad held back the Cornhuskers. Nebraska HB Presnell rolled up more yards on the day then the entire Missouri team combined, but it was the Tigers that emerged the winner by one point, marking their third straight victory over the Cornhuskers. Those three straight wins accounted for half of all of Missouri's wins against Nebraska since the beginning of the series in 1892, and they gained slightly on the series by pulling up to 6-14-1.
Nebraska responded severely to the continued frustration dealt to them by Missouri the previous week by absolutely smashing Grinnell in Lincoln with a shutout 58-0 performance, which was the most points they had scored against an opponent since the 66-0 downing of South Dakota in 1922. Grinnell and Nebraska had shared conference affiliations since 1919, but this was the first time the teams had met on the field since 1908. It was also the last meeting of the teams, ending one of the oldest series in the Nebraska program's history dating back to 1894, with Nebraska in command at 7-2.
Three years had passed since the Cornhuskers had last taken a shot at the Orangemen, and Nebraska was aiming to cut the 2-game series lead held by Syracuse. The success of the previous game was extended as the Cornhuskers played an additional four quarters of football without being scored upon, sending the eastern team home as recipients of a 0-21 blanking in Lincoln. The win brought Nebraska up to within one game of tying the series, to 2-3 all-time against Syracuse.
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