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1955 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1955 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
Conference Big Seven Conference
1955 record 5–5 (5–1 Big 7)
Head coach Bill Glassford (7th year)
Offensive scheme Split-T
Home stadium Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1954
1956 →
1955 Big 7 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
#1 Oklahoma $ 6 0 0     11 0 0
Nebraska 5 1 0     5 5 0
Colorado 3 3 0     6 4 0
Kansas State 3 3 0     4 6 0
Kansas 1 4 1     3 6 1
Iowa State 1 4 1     1 7 1
Missouri 1 5 0     1 9 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll
1 2 Total
Hawaii 6
Nebraska 0
1 2 Total
Nebraska 20
• #6 Ohio State 28
1 2 Total
Nebraska 16
Kansas State 0
1 2 Total
Texas A&M 27
Nebraska 0
  • Date: October 8
  • Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Game attendance: 40,000
1 2 Total
Nebraska 7
Pittsburgh 21
1 2 Total
Nebraska 18
Missouri 12
1 2 Total
Kansas 14
Nebraska 19
  • Date: October 29
  • Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Game attendance: 31,000
1 2 Total
Nebraska 10
Iowa State 7
  • Date: November 5
  • Location: Clyde Williams Field • Ames, Iowa
  • Game attendance: 12,000

The 1955 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big 7 Conference in the 1955 college football season. The team was coached by Bill Glassford and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Coach Glassford returned for a seventh season, having survived pressure to step down at the end of the 1953 season by guiding the Cornhuskers through their first-ever 11-game season and to their first Orange Bowl appearance, though that had as much to do with the Big 7's no-repeat rule that prevented Big 7 champion Oklahoma from representing the league for consecutive years, as anything Glassford had accomplished with his own squad. Two new faces appearaed on the coaching staff, one of them a former Cornhusker quarterback. The seasons under Coach Glassford had alternated between winning and losing records, and with last year's 6-5 result, history suggested that the Cornhuskers might be up for another down campaign, unless Glassford could break the pattern.

At the conclusion of the previous season, Nebraska traveled to Hawaii and dealt the Rainbows a severe 50-0 defeat. While Nebraska went on to play in the postseason at the 1955 Orange Bowl, Hawaii's season ended on the sour note, leaving the Rainbow squad to stew over the summer. The return visit in the home-and-home series was arranged as the first contest of the year for both teams, and so it was that Hawaii's arrival in Lincoln to open the 1955 slate was their second straight contest with the Cornhuskers. Whether Nebraska overlooked the Rainbows or the Hawaii team was bent on payback, the end result was a lackluster Nebraska showing as Hawaii fought off all Cornhusker scoring attempts for the day. Nebraska never got closer than the Rainbow 13-yard line, yet Hawaii snuck through the Nebraska defenses to secure a single touchdown. Nebraska thus suffered a demoralizing shutout loss to start the season, the first opening blank since 1947.

Stung by the humiliating loss to Hawaii, the Nebraska team put up a much more convincing effort against the reigning Big 10 and Rose Bowl champion Ohio State Buckeyes, who had also finished 1954 at #1 atop the AP Poll. The Cornhuskers even managed to briefly hold the lead in Columbus during the second quarter, but the Buckeyes held on to pull away by eight points. Ohio State notched the first win in the series between the squads, and went on to finish 1955 with a 7-2 record and ranked #5 by the AP.


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