1932 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1932 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1932 college football season . The team was coached by Dana X . Bible and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln , Nebraska . Before the season . Coach Bible began his third season at Nebraska with two conference titles to his credit , as Nebraska held two of the three titles awarded since the Big 6 Conference came into being after evolving from the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association 1929 , and three of the last four conference titles overall . Assistant coaches Day and Lehman did not return for 1932 , but former head coach and later assistant coach for the linemen , Henry Schulte , who had never left the university while coaching for other sports , returned to the football staff by taking up his old position as lineman coach . Two new assistants also came aboard to assist with the freshman team . Nebraska ' s domination of the Big 6 made them favorites to win the title again in 1932 . Game notes . Iowa State . 1932 opened with a choppy performance , where the game was won through individual performances , and not lost despite the lack of effective teamwork . Iowa State figured out how to deal with the Nebraska line by the end of the third quarter , but could not score a second touchdown to draw even before time expired . The Cyclones fell to 4 - 22 - 1 against the Cornhuskers all - time . Minnesota . Reviving an old and storied series with the powerhouse Minnesota team , a battle last fought in 1913 , the Cornhuskers struck first and early , using the wind to their advantage in the passing game . The wind subsequently turned against Nebraska when the point after went wide . In the second quarter , the Golden Gophers powered in their own score , and their point after was good . That one point ultimately decided the game , as both teams managed to fight each other to a defensive , scoreless tie in the second half . According to the university ' s yearbook , some media representatives considered Nebraska the winner of the game , if not the scoreboard . Officially , however , the result placed another " L " in the record against Nebraska , which moved the Cornhuskers to 2 - 11 - 2 against the Golden Gophers since the series began in 1900 , farther away from their hopes of some day catching up with Minnesota . Kansas . Any hangover from the Minnesota loss was quickly shaken off when the Cornhuskers made their second straight road game appearance and once again defeated Kansas with relative ease . The game was never seriously in doubt , and the Jayhawks suffered yet another loss in a long line of disappointments dating back to 1917 . The Jayhawks were set farther back , to 9 - 28 - 2 against the Cornhuskers . Kansas State . The Kansas State squad fought stubbornly and kept Nebraska ' s homecoming game in doubt until the very end . A mostly defensive event , Nebraska did not manage to get the game - winning score until less than three minutes remained on the clock to save the day and move up to 15 - 1 - 1 against the Wildcats since 1911 . Iowa . Nebraska scratched a lead from the field by putting the Hawkeyes behind 0 - 14 , a score that held through the start of the fourth quarter , but Iowa did not roll over and give up . A couple of quick touchdowns late in the game put a scare into the Cornhuskers , but defeat was averted when an Iowa point after went wide , allowing Nebraska to escape Ames with a win , and improving them to 14 - 7 - 3 against the Hawkeyes . Pittsburgh . Nebraska , failing to win against Pittsburgh since 1921 , which was their only win to date in six tries , fought the favored powerhouse Panthers to a scoreless tie in Lincoln , notching a moral victory if not a scoreboard win . Pittsburgh managed only eight first downs on the day to Nebraska ' s thirteen , and the Cornhusker defense nabbed three very timely turnovers to keep the Panthers out of the end zone , handing both teams the third tie in their shared series . Oklahoma . Oklahoma fought Nebraska at every turn and held on to a scoreless first half , but finally cracked in the third quarter when the Sooners allowed a Cornhusker field goal to break the drought . Oklahoma was still fighting to take the game back when the Sooner QB was tackled in his own end zone to hand Nebraska two more points to end the scoring . The win clinched the league title for Nebraska and moved the Cornhuskers ahead on the series to 8 - 2 - 2 . Missouri . Missouri ' s futility in regaining possession of the Missouri - Nebraska Bell was extended yet again as Nebraska closed out the conference season unbeaten . The Tigers attempted to make a game of it , trailing by only a point at the halftime break , and successfully holding back Nebraska through the third quarter before finally breaking under the pressure and allowing the Cornhuskers to run off 14 points and pull away . Missouri ' s disappointment was made all the worse as they fell farther back in their record against Nebraska , to 6 - 17 - 3 . SMU . After a year off since the first meeting of these squads , a scoreless tie , Nebraska and SMU squared off to settle affairs . The Mustangs became the only team on Nebraska ' s 1932 slate to manage a running touchdown through the Cornhusker line , but SMU miscues and lost fumbles in the first half gave Nebraska all the points they would need to secure the victory . The Mustangs and Cornhuskers never met on the field again , leaving the abbreviated series owned by the Cornhuskers 1 - 0 - 1 . After the season . Nebraska ' s domination of the Big 6 continued , as the Cornhuskers now owned four of the five Big 6 championships since the league ' s reformation . Coach Bible ' s teams were well - established as a force to be feared nationwide , and his Nebraska career record improved to 23 - 7 - 6 ( . 722 ) . The Nebraska program enjoyed yet another improvement in the overall record , moving to 243 - 81 - 26 ( . 731 ) , while the conference record was now up to a dominating 69 - 10 - 8 ( . 839 ) .