1935 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Minnesota at Nebraska
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Date: October 12
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 35,000
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Oklahoma at Nebraska
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Date: October 26
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game weather: Rain
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Kansas at Nebraska
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13 |
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19 |
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Date: November 9
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 30,000
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The 1935 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1935 college football season. The team was coached by Dana X. Bible and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Coach Bible became the longest Nebraska head football coach in program history to date when he began his seventh season with the Cornhuskers. The 1934 squad had been made almost entirely of new starters who proved themselves by dropping only three games, two of which were to the teams that would end the season nationally ranked #1 and #2, and finishing second in the Big 6. Almost all of them were back, experienced, and ready to try to put Nebraska back on top.
Chicago journeyed to Lincoln to repay a visit made by Nebraska to Chicago's home field back in 1905, which ended as a 5-38 defeat handed down by the Maroons, one of only two losses suffered by the 1905 Cornhuskers. This time around, the debt was repaid in full as Nebraska's line appeared to already be in mid-season form and the Chicago team was handily defeated in the Nebraska opening game. The teams never met again, and the record therefore remained evenly divided between them at 1-1-0.
Iowa State hosted Nebraska to open conference play, and the visiting Cornhuskers had little difficulty starting their Big 6 schedule on the right foot with yet another win against the Cyclones. Iowa State, now having dropped 13 straight to Nebraska, was quickly falling out of sight in their series deficit, at 4-25-1.
The reigning national championship Minnesota Golden Gophers team arrived in Lincoln in a heralded high-interest game that was broadcast nationally on two radio networks. The stadium full of fans was bound for disappointment, however, as Nebraska fell by just five points. Minnesota, along with Pittsburgh, just seemed to always have Nebraska's number, and improved over the Cornhuskers to 13-2-2. The Gophers went on to finish the season undefeated at 8-0-0 and ranked #2 nationally by the Dickinson System, while the United Press International's first ever end-of-season poll ranked Minnesota at #1.
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