1947 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Indiana at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Indiana
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0 |
7 |
3 |
7 |
17 |
| Nebraska |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Minnesota at Nebraska
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Date: October 4
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 34,000
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Nebraska at #2 Notre Dame
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Kansas at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
Total |
| • Kansas
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|
|
13 |
| Nebraska |
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|
7 |
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Date: November 8
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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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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Oklahoma
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0 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
14 |
| Nebraska |
0 |
6 |
7 |
0 |
13 |
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Date: November 22
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Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 25,000
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The 1947 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big 6 Conference in the 1947 college football season. The team was coached by Bernie Masterson and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Head coach Masterson, hired last year to restore the T formation offense, and Nebraska's historic dominance that had faded over the past several years, returned in his attempt to stem the program's unprecedented string of losing seasons at six. Never before this stretch had the Cornhuskers ever had even two consecutive losing football seasons, and as the fifth head coach of the Cornhuskers in the last eleven years, and with four of the six 1946 assistants departed and replaced with three new position coaches, turnover and instability at the top that had likely contributed to the long run of frustration was still a concern. It remained to be seen whether coach Masterson would be up to the challenge of Nebraska's recovery.
The Hoosiers, long a source of frustration for Nebraska, continued their string of wins in the series by blanking the Cornhuskers to start coach Masterson's second season with a sound defeat. Though Nebraska once held the edge over Indiana at 3–0–2, the Hoosiers had evolved into a national power and had run off seven wins straight to take command of the series.
The Cornhuskers sought to bounce back from the season opening loss, yet initially found themselves behind 0–14 against longtime rival Minnesota. Nebraska overcame the deficit as the game wore on, eventually drawing up within one point of the Golden Gophers in the fourth quarter, but Minnesota poured on the pressure and put away two more touchdowns to seal the game and take their 7th straight victory in the series, improving their edge over the Cornhuskers to 23–4–2.
Underdog Iowa State made their first serious attempt to get a win against Nebraska in several years, and rolled up the statistical advantage for their efforts, yet did not actually obtain the points to match. It was the bad luck of the Cyclones that a blocked punt was recovered by the Cornhuskers to put up the winning points and secure the first Nebraska win of the season and snap their three-game losing streak in the series. Iowa State fell to 8–32–1 against the Cornhuskers overall.
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