1928 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1928 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
Big Six champion
Conference	Big Six Conference
1928 record	7–1–1 (5–0 Big 6)
Head coach	Ernest Bearg (4th season)
Home stadium	Memorial Stadium
Seasons ← 1927 1929 →

1928 Big 6 football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Nebraska $	5	–	0	–	0			7	–	1	–	1
Missouri	3	–	2	–	0			4	–	4	–	0
Oklahoma	3	–	2	–	0			5	–	3	–	0
Iowa State	2	–	2	–	1			2	–	5	–	1
Kansas	1	–	3	–	1			2	–	4	–	2
Kansas State	0	–	5	–	0			3	–	5	–	0
$ – Conference champion

Nebraska at Iowa State

1 2 Total • Nebraska 12 Iowa State 0 Date: October 6 Location: Clyde Williams Field • Ames, Iowa Game attendance: 5,884

Montana State at Nebraska

1 2 Total Montana State 6 • Nebraska 26 Date: October 13 Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska

Syracuse at Nebraska

1 2 3 4 Total Syracuse 0 6 0 0 6 • Nebraska 7 0 0 0 7 Date: October 20 Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska Game attendance: 23,000

Missouri at Nebraska

1 2 3 4 Total Missouri 0 0 0 0 0 • Nebraska 7 0 3 14 24 Date: October 27 Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska Game attendance: 38,000

Nebraska at Kansas

1 2 Total • Nebraska 20 Kansas 0 Date: November 3 Location: Memorial Stadium • Lawrence, Kansas

Nebraska at Oklahoma

1 2 Total • Nebraska 44 Oklahoma 6 Date: November 10 Location: Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Norman, Oklahoma Game attendance: 26,000

Pittsburgh at Nebraska

1 2 3 4 Total Pittsburgh 0 0 0 0 0 Nebraska 0 0 0 0 0 Date: November 17 Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska Game attendance: 25,000

Nebraska at Army

1 2 3 4 Total Nebraska 0 3 0 0 3 • Army 0 0 6 7 13 Date: November 24 Location: Michie Stadium • West Point, New York

The 1928 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1928 college football season. The team was coached by Ernest Bearg and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Coach Bearg's Cornhuskers had accomplished many feats, but had yet to put up a conference title banner during his tenure. The Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association had split up following the 1927 season, with the smaller schools (Drake, Grinnell, Oklahoma A&M, and Washington (MO)) forming a new league, the similarly named Missouri Valley Conference. The schools which remained in the MVIAA (Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma) were henceforth commonly referred to as the Big Six Conference, although the league's name technically was not changed. The result was that the league no longer had teams from smaller schools which were typically easily overwhelmed by Nebraska. Securing a league title was now more difficult than ever.

Iowa State allowed the Cornhuskers just one touchdown in the first half, which was earned through fierce competition. After the break, the Cyclones continued to thwart Nebraska and made big gains of their own, yet somehow failed to turn any of their advances into points on the board. The Cornhuskers found the end zone one more time and finished the scoring, opening the conference slate in the new Big 6 with a shutout victory and pulling farther ahead of Iowa State in the series, 18-4-1.

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