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1949 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1949 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
Conference Big Seven Conference
1949 record 4–5 (3–3 Big 7)
Head coach Bill Glassford (1st year)
Offensive scheme T formation
Home stadium Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1948
1950 →
1949 Big 7 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#2 Oklahoma $ 5 – 0 – 0     11 – 0 – 0
#20 Missouri 5 – 1 – 0     7 – 4 – 0
Iowa State 3 – 3 – 0     5 – 3 – 1
Nebraska 3 – 3 – 0     4 – 5 – 0
Kansas 2 – 4 – 0     5 – 5 – 0
Colorado 1 – 4 – 0     3 – 7 – 0
Kansas State 1 – 5 – 0     2 – 8 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1 2 Total
South Dakota 6
• Nebraska 33
1 2 Total
• Minnesota 28
Nebraska 6
  • Date: October 1
  • Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Game attendance: 34,000
1 2 Total
• Nebraska 13
Kansas State 6
1 2 Total
Nebraska 7
• Penn State 22
1 2 Total
• #4 Oklahoma 48
Nebraska 0
  • Date: October 22
  • Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Game attendance: 39,000
1 2 Total
Nebraska 20
• #16 Missouri 21
1 2 Total
• Kansas 27
Nebraska 13
  • Date: November 5
  • Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Game attendance: 36,500
1 2 3 4 Total
• Nebraska 0 0 0 7 7
Iowa State 0 0 0 0 0

The 1949 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big 7 Conference in the 1949 college football season. The team was coached by Bill Glassford and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Stepping up to fill the role of head football coach at Nebraska, Bill Glassford was the fifth to fill the role within the same decade, a period wrought with social change and economic recovery following World War II, and in which the fortunes of Cornhusker football had taken a serious downturn. Nebraska had now put together eight straight losing seasons, prior to which the program had not ever suffered even two consecutive losing seasons. Coach Glassford held over a couple of assistants from the 1948 staff and set to work in his attempt to restore Nebraska football to prominence.

The Glassford era opened with a win at memorial Stadium, though the foe was lowly South Dakota. The Coyotes had never really threatened Nebraska since their lone win in the 13-game series, from 1899. Still, as the Cornhuskers had now been struggling to succeed for years, the win was nice to get.

The university's yearbook described the Cornhuskers' style of play as "savage", and unlike any performances seen in Memorial Stadium for a decade. Despite the effort, Minnesota extended their domination of Nebraska yet another year, this being their tenth straight win in the series, and improved to 25-4-2 over Nebraska all-time. The Golden Gophers went on to finish the season 7-2 and ranked #8.

Kansas State, lately a perennial easy-win game for Nebraska, failed to simply roll over as expected when Nebraska came calling in Manhattan. The contest started off suggesting a rout, as the first play of the game was a full-field 100-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to put the Cornhuskers up immediately. Thereafter, both teams struggled to make any headway until near the end of the first half, when another Cornhusker touchdown was put on the board. The Wildcats fought bravely in the second half but only came up with a single touchdown, which extended their losing streak against Nebraska to seven straight as they fell to 4-27-2 against the Cornhuskers.

Nebraska and Penn State met for only their second game to date, following a 0-20 loss to the Nittany Lions from 1920. Once again in State College, Penn State defeated the Cornhuskers and owned the day except for one 82-yard Nebraska punt return. The Cornhuskers returned to Lincoln winless in both tries of the series. This was the 150th Nebraska football loss in the history of the program.


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