1929 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
SMU at Nebraska
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2 |
3 |
4 |
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| SMU |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Nebraska |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Pittsburgh at Nebraska
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| • Pittsburgh
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12 |
0 |
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12 |
| Nebraska |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
7 |
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Date: October 19
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 35,000
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Nebraska at Missouri
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| Nebraska |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
7 |
| Missouri |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
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Kansas at Nebraska
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| Kansas |
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6 |
| • Nebraska
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12 |
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Date: November 2
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Oklahoma at Nebraska
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Date: November 16
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Iowa State at Nebraska
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Date: November 28
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 11,149
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The 1929 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1929 college football season. The team was coached by Dana X. Bible and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
New Nebraska head coach Bible arrived after having served eleven years as head football coach at Texas A&M University and winning six Southwest Conference titles along the way. The 1929 Cornhusker squad was fresh off winning the 1928 conference title in the first season of the Big 6, but had to quickly learn the new system brought in by Bible with a tough set of games scheduled to open the season.
The 1929 season started with a tall challenge for the Nebraska squad, as they were still installing the new style of play brought in by coach Bible, and faced the reigning Southwest Conference champion Southern Methodist team as their first test. Many injuries were suffered on the field, including the loss of one Cornhusker player for the year, but the two championship teams were well-matched and ultimately fought to a scoreless draw in their first ever meeting.
Without much time to recover from the battle against SMU, Nebraska traveled to meet Syracuse for the season's first eastern game. Syracuse was favored to win and seemed to have the edge due to the number of hobbled Cornhusker players, and by the end of the first half those predictions seemed to be coming true as the squads left the field with the Orangemen holding a 6-0 lead. In the second half, however, Nebraska's adjustments were able to successfully shut down further Syracuse scoring, and the Cornhuskers found a way to score 13 of their own to secure the upset win, making this the third straight Nebraska win over Syracuse and moving the Cornhuskers ahead in the series to 4-3.
Coming off the upset win over Syracuse, Nebraska entered the second eastern game of the season when Pitt came calling in Lincoln. The contest started slowly as both teams struggled to come up with points, but the Panthers found a way to get in a couple of touchdowns before the half, though both kicks after failed. After that, Pittsburgh was done scoring as the Cornhuskers successfully bottled the Panthers up for the rest of the game. Nebraska was only able to manage a single fourth-quarter touchdown and so failed to take the game, but did hold the Pittsburgh squad to the lowest total points it would score in any game of 1929. The edge in the series went to Pittsburgh, 2-1-1.
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