1939 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Minnesota at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Minnesota |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Nebraska
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0 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
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Nebraska at Iowa State
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Nebraska
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3 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
10 |
| Iowa State |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
7 |
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#19 Baylor at #16 Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| #19 Baylor
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0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • #16 Nebraska
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6 |
0 |
14 |
0 |
20 |
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Date: October 21
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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#10 Nebraska at Kansas State
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Kansas at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Kansas |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Nebraska
|
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
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Date: November 11
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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The 1939 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1939 college football season. The team was coached by Biff Jones and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Coach Jones was under some scrutiny upon the start of his third year at the helm of the program, as it wasn't entirely clear if his successful first year in 1937 was a product of his leadership or a remnant of former head coach Dana X. Bible's legacy. After suffering a 3-5-1 campaign in 1938, the most losses in a single season since 1899, coach Jones needed to get the program back on its feet.
Indiana scored first and held Nebraska off with the narrow 7-0 lead for most of the rest of the game. Finally, as time was running out, the Cornhuskers pulled up to the Hoosier 1 yard line. After two subsequent scoring attempts were turned away, Nebraska executed a reverse around the right and scored with less than 90 seconds remaining to play. Indiana responded valiantly, quickly driving from their own 35 to the Nebraska 10 before a turnover ended their last hope with 35 seconds still on the clock. Indiana thus remained winless against Nebraska in all four of their attempts.
Nebraska brought old nemesis Minnesota to Lincoln and attacked the Gophers with a powerful running offense, while the Cornhusker defense put up an outstanding effort to keep Minnesota off the scoreboard all day long. Nebraska threw only a single pass during the contest, and made their lone score using the same play that slipped past Indiana in the previous game. The rare win was savored by the Cornhuskers, but Nebraska had a long way to go if they ever hoped to even up the series, as the Gophers still held a dominating edge of 15-4-2 over the Cornhuskers.
Nebraska opened the 1939 conference slate with a relatively easy win over Iowa State, running out to a 10-0 lead by the start of the 4th quarter. The Cyclones did manage a late rally to put up 7 late points, but the Cornhuskers successfully avenged the previous year's upsetting loss to Iowa State and padded the series lead over the Cyclones to 28-5-1.
Baylor met Nebraska for the first time in what was presented initially as a marquee matchup of two highly touted lines. The day belonged to Nebraska all the way, however, as the Cornhuskers pulled up to a 6-0 lead by the half before breaking away with two more touchdowns in the 3rd quarter on their way to blanking the Bears in Lincoln.
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