1934 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Iowa at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Iowa |
0 |
0 |
6 |
7 |
13 |
| • Nebraska
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0 |
0 |
7 |
7 |
14 |
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Date: October 13
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 35,000
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Nebraska at Oklahoma
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Nebraska
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0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
6 |
| Oklahoma |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Iowa State at Nebraska
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Date: October 27
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 24,320
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Pittsburgh at Nebraska
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Date: November 10
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Nebraska at Kansas
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Nebraska
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0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
| Kansas |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Missouri at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Missouri |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
6 |
| • Nebraska
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0 |
0 |
0 |
13 |
13 |
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Date: November 24
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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The 1934 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1934 college football season. The team was coached by Dana X. Bible and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Coach Bible returned for a sixth year with many conference titles to his credit, but suffered the loss of all but one of his starting 1933 players to graduation, and was therefore breaking in a relatively inexperienced squad. Bible's length of tenure at Nebraska had thus far been a clear success, and his length of service now matched the stretch held by Walter C. Booth in his six years as coach from 1900 to 1905, which was at that time the longest in program history.
Wyoming and Nebraska met on the field for the first time ever, and coach Bible made sure the Cowboys understood what it was to face the Cornhusker machine. Wyoming was outclassed, outyarded and generally pushed around the field the entire game as the Cornhuskers easily rolled up 50 points in a dominating shutout which was the most points scored and largest margin of victory by Nebraska since a 58-0 blanking of Grinnell in 1927. The only disappointment of the game was Nebraska's two successful points after attempts in eight tries.
Nebraska's fortunes were quickly and clearly reversed when the Golden Gophers welcomed Nebraska to Minneapolis by soundly defeating them 20-0. Nebraska tried to make it a game and held Minnesota to a single first half score, but their attempt to tie it up was rebuffed when the Gophers managed to turn the Cornhuskers away with no points from just three yards out. Nebraska's defensive stand finally broke open in the fourth quarter as Minnesota put in two more scores to secure the victory, setting the Cornhuskers back to 2-12-2 in the series. Minnesota went on to finish their season 8-0-0 and ranked #1 in the nation by the Dickinson System.
Iowa brought a squad loaded with experienced veterans to Lincoln, and was favored to win against Nebraska's relatively inexperienced squad that was still smarting from the 0-20 downing handed them by Minnesota the week prior. Both teams fought to a standstill for the first half, but in the third quarter the Cornhuskers managed to put the ball across the line to get points on the board. The Hawkeyes promptly answered, but their point after went wide. The teams traded touchdowns again in the fourth quarter, but the missed kick in the third quarter came back to haunt Iowa as time ran out before they could make up the missing point. Nebraska improved to 16-7-3 in the series.
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