1948 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1948 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big 7 Conference in the 1948 college football season . The team was coached by George Clark and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln , Nebraska . Before the season . Nebraska athletic director and one - time head football coach Adolph J . Lewandowski brought back the coach he initially chose as his own replacement for 1945 , George Clark , who had departed Nebraska after just that one season . With the unsuccessful tenure of previous head coach Bernie Masterson ended , Lewandowski was able to turn to the last , most recent coach that had provided a glimmer of hope to the Cornhuskers in nearly a decade . So it was that after seven straight losing seasons , the coaching staff once again suffered a shakeup in hopes of ending the downward spiral of Nebraska football as the Cornhuskers entered their first - ever 10 - game season . The 1948 season was the first to see Colorado ' s athletic teams participate in conference play , as the Big 6 Conference subsequently became known as the Big 7 Conference . Nebraska and Colorado were set to meet again on the field for the first time since 1907 , now as part of regular season conference play . Game notes . Iowa State . The Cornhuskers opened the season and welcomed Coach Clark back with a win , the third straight over the Cyclones . The home opening victory snapped Nebraska ' s six - season opening game losing streak , and the Cornhuskers improved over Iowa State to 33 - 8 - 1 . Minnesota . Unsurprisingly , given Minnesota ' s historical dominance over Nebraska , even as the Cornhuskers continued to seek stability , the Golden Gophers had little trouble with Nebraska in Minneapolis . Minnesota had now defeated the Cornhuskers in nine straight games , and continued to pull away in the series , 24 - 4 - 2 . Colorado . Although Nebraska and Colorado had met on the field six times before , this was the first since a 22 - 8 Nebraska victory from 1907 , and the first time the teams had met as conference foes . The Buffaloes sent Nebraska back to Lincoln with a 6 - 19 loss , but still lagged in the series at 2 - 5 . Notre Dame . When Notre Dame arrived in Lincoln , they brought with them a # 2 AP Poll ranking and were probably not seriously worried about getting a fight from the Cornhuskers . Nebraska avoided the shutout , but allowed the Fighting Irish 44 points to take home a convincing win and improve over the Cornhuskers to 7 - 5 - 1 . Notre Dame went on to finish the season undefeated at 9 - 0 and still at # 2 . Kansas . Nebraska dropped a second straight game to Kansas for the first time since 1909 , as the Cornhuskers continued to struggle for success . Although Nebraska still held a dominating 40 - 11 - 3 series lead over the Jayhawks , losses over the last several seasons were piling up everywhere . UCLA . After one year off , Nebraska and UCLA met again for their second - ever meeting , this time in Lincoln . The Bruins had been ranked # 4 last time , as the Cornhuskers had been sent home smarting from a shutout loss 0 - 18 . This time , UCLA came to Lincoln unranked , but the outcome was unchanged . Nebraska dropped another homecoming game , the fifth straight loss of the season , and fell to 0 - 2 against UCLA . Kansas State . If there was any consolation to the Cornhuskers that things could be worse , it was the Kansas State Wildcats that continued to bring the good news . Amidst a record string of consecutive losing seasons , the Cornhuskers handed Kansas State a shutout . The 32 - 0 defeat of the Wildcats was Nebraska ' s sixth - straight victory over the team from Manhattan , and the Cornhuskers improved to 26 - 4 - 2 in the series . Oklahoma . By the time the Cornhuskers arrived in Norman to face the # 9 Sooners , there wasn ' t much to fight for . With only two conference wins so far , any chance of a league title was out of sight . Oklahoma rolled over Nebraska without much effort , but the 14 - 41 loss showed that the Cornhuskers were not completely out of the game . This was the sixth straight defeat of Nebraska in the series , and their all - time lead of 16 - 8 - 3 over the Sooners continued to shrink . Missouri . In front of a crowd reduced by over a third from the last home game , Nebraska fell to Missouri to close out the 1948 home season . It was their fourth straight loss to the Tigers in a row , but Missouri still had some distance to cover to catch up in the series , as they still trailed the Cornhuskers 14 - 24 - 3 . Oregon State . The Cornhuskers brought the 1948 season to a close with a long road trip to Portland to face Oregon State . Nebraska historically dominated the Beavers , but had lost a decision against them in the last meeting of the squads last year . This year would come to the same result , as the Cornhuskers fell once again and allowed Oregon State to narrow the series to 2 - 5 . After the season . Coach Clark ' s return did not bring about the hoped - for results , though one year is hard to judge by . His return to program was cut short after this season , but he still holds the distinction of being the only Nebraska head football coach to serve at different times . Combined with his 1945 performance , his Nebraska career total was a disappointing 6 - 13 - 0 ( . 316 ) , while his conference record stood at 4 - 7 - 0 ( . 374 ) . With eight straight losing seasons now strung together , the Cornhusker football program fell to 120 - 37 - 11 ( . 747 ) against conference foes , and to 316 - 148 - 31 overall ( . 670 ) . Once again Nebraska sought a head football coach , who would be the fifth over the previous nine years .