1951 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1951 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big 7 Conference in the 1951 college football season . The team was coached by Bill Glassford and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln , Nebraska . Before the season . Coach Glassford ' s third year at the helm commenced with hopeful expectations after the turnaround 8 - 2 season of 1950 that produced Nebraska ' s first winning record in ten years . The Cornhuskers had finished out the previous season ranked # 17 by the AP Poll , following a competitive 35 - 49 loss to the national champion Oklahoma Sooners , and it looked like the train was finally back on the tracks in Lincoln . Returning for 1951 was the entire coaching staff of the previous season , and the AP shined favorably on Nebraska by introducing the Cornhuskers at # 12 to open the 1951 slate . Game notes . TCU . The 1951 Cornhuskers stumbled out of the gate , falling to Texas Christian in Lincoln in the first - ever meeting of these teams . The combination of a new and innovative TCU offensive formation with ill - timed Nebraska turnovers gave the Horned Frogs a relatively easy win . TCU went on the finish the season 6 - 4 - 0 and ranked # 11 by the AP Poll . Kansas State . A large contingent of Cornhusker fans traveled to Manhattan for the season ' s road - opening game , braving the wet weather and with hopes of another easy win over the beleaguered Kansas State team . The Wildcats succeeded in slowing the Nebraska attack following the first touchdown of the day , and managed to tie the game after the half and hold on the finish the game at an even 6 - 6 . Nebraska returned to Lincoln without an outright win in the series for the first time in the last nine meetings , but the Wildcats were later penalized for using an ineligible player for the game and had to forfeit the resulting tie . The official final recorded score for the game was later revised , to a 1 - 0 Nebraska victory , moving the Cornhuskers to 29 - 4 - 2 against Kansas State to date . Penn State . After a lackluster opening to the season , Coach Glassford reorganized his personnel in preparation for the visit by Penn State . The Nittany Lions scored first , but the Cornhuskers made it a battle by firing right back to go up 7 - 6 . Scoring was sparse on the day , but Nebraska was unable to answer a later touchdown by Penn State and fell to 1 - 3 in the series . Minnesota . Minnesota hosted the Cornhuskers in Minneapolis and successfully avenged their rare loss to Nebraska by taking advantage of a series of Cornhusker miscues just prior to the halftime break . Until the shift of momentum , it appeared that Nebraska might be able to make a fight out of the contest , but the Golden Gophers were once again triumphant , advancing their commanding lead in the series to 26 - 5 - 2 . Missouri . For the second week in a row , second - quarter mistakes proved costly to the Cornhuskers , as a 7 - 7 tie was broken open with two quick Missouri touchdowns before the half . By falling to the Tigers , who had as yet not won a game themselves , the Cornhusker season now seemed to be spiraling out of control , bringing back visions of the painful 1940s . Nebraska ' s lead in the series slipped to 25 - 16 - 3 , and Missouri took back the Victory Bell for the year . Kansas . Homecoming week brought the Kansas Jayhawks to Lincoln , but more Cornhusker turnovers spelled doom for hopes of the season ' s first outright victory . Five of Nebraska ' s six fumbles were lost to Kansas , making little work for the Jayhawks to pick up the win and disappoint the homecoming crowd . Nebraska remained ahead in the series 41 - 13 - 3 , but remained winless on the field in all six games of the season so far Iowa State . Coach Glassford again implemented changes , installing elements of the spread formation presented by the Texas Christian team in Nebraska ' s season - opening loss , and successfully managed to snatch the season ' s first victory against the Cyclones . The turnover battle was also won by the Cornhuskers on the field , as Iowa State gave up six interceptions and failed to take away either of Nebraska ' s two fumbles on the day . Thus an outright winning streak was kept alive as the Cornhuskers left Ames with six straight decisions over the Cyclones and improved to 36 - 8 - 1 in the series . Colorado . Nebraska again attacked using the new spread formation , but found less success than the previous week , and once again the Cornhuskers were set back by miscues in the 2nd quarter . With key injuries taking a toll , Nebraska reverted to the T formation against the Buffaloes but was unable to produce meaningful results and fell before the visiting Colorado squad for the second year in a row , slipping to 6 - 4 in the series to date . Oklahoma . Reigning league champion Oklahoma arrived in Lincoln ranked at # 12 by the AP Poll , and set to the task of closing Nebraska ' s home field season with another Cornhusker loss . The Nebraska defense made a fight out of the event for much of the game before collapsing in the 4th quarter . No offensive look managed to get past the Sooners as the Cornhuskers were shut out for the first time of the season , giving up another decision to Oklahoma , yet still holding on to the series lead at 16 - 12 - 3 . The nine straight losses against the Sooners again extended Nebraska ' s record losing streak to any single team . Oklahoma finished the season as undefeated Big 7 champions , 8 - 2 - 0 overall , and ranked # 10 . Miami . The Cornhuskers traveled to Miami for the first - ever meeting of these teams , and fan expectation was not high for success . Surprisingly , the Cornhuskers came out swinging and were actually leading the game 7 - 6 by halftime , avoiding the " 2nd quarter jinx " that had haunted the squad for much of the season . The second half told a different story as Nebraska ' s scoring came to a halt and the Hurricanes tacked on two more touchdowns to close out a very disappointing Cornhusker campaign . After the season . The brief successful fire seen in Nebraska ' s 1950 8 - 2 season was just as quickly darkened when the 1951 campaign fell flat . Although the season eventually would be recorded as a dismal 2 - 8 - 0 after being revised because of the Kansas State forfeit , this was of no meaningful improvement over the original 1 - 8 - 1 end - of - season tally , and was significantly worse than coach Glassford ' s initial 5 - 4 record in his first year . One bright spot looking to the future was the return of future NFL draft picks Bobby Reynolds and Ed Hussman , both set to play for one more year . The disappointing close to 1951 brought coach Glassford ' s career record down to 9 - 9 - 0 ( . 500 ) in the Big 7 , and dropped his previously winning overall record to 12 - 15 - 1 ( . 446 ) . The Nebraska program endured another hit to its legacy by slipping to 328 - 163 - 32 ( . 658 ) all time and 129 - 46 - 11 ( . 723 ) in conference play .