1947 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1947 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska and member of the Big 6 Conference in the 1947 college football season . The team was coached by Bernie Masterson and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln , Nebraska . Before the season . Head coach Masterson , hired last year to restore the T formation offense , and Nebraska ' s historic dominance that had faded over the past several years , returned in his attempt to stem the program ' s unprecedented string of losing seasons at six . Never before this stretch had the Cornhuskers ever had even two consecutive losing football seasons , and as the fifth head coach of the Cornhuskers in the last eleven years , and with four of the six 1946 assistants departed and replaced with three new position coaches , turnover and instability at the top that had likely contributed to the long run of frustration was still a concern . It remained to be seen whether coach Masterson would be up to the challenge of Nebraska ' s recovery . Game notes . Indiana . The Hoosiers , long a source of frustration for Nebraska , continued their string of wins in the series by blanking the Cornhuskers to start coach Masterson ' s second season with a sound defeat . Though Nebraska once held the edge over Indiana at 3 – 0 – 2 , the Hoosiers had evolved into a national power and had run off seven wins straight to take command of the series . Minnesota . The Cornhuskers sought to bounce back from the season opening loss , yet initially found themselves behind 0 – 14 against longtime rival Minnesota . Nebraska overcame the deficit as the game wore on , eventually drawing up within one point of the Golden Gophers in the fourth quarter , but Minnesota poured on the pressure and put away two more touchdowns to seal the game and take their 7th straight victory in the series , improving their edge over the Cornhuskers to 23 – 4 – 2 . Iowa State . Underdog Iowa State made their first serious attempt to get a win against Nebraska in several years , and rolled up the statistical advantage for their efforts , yet did not actually obtain the points to match . It was the bad luck of the Cyclones that a blocked punt was recovered by the Cornhuskers to put up the winning points and secure the first Nebraska win of the season and snap their three - game losing streak in the series . Iowa State fell to 8 – 32 – 1 against the Cornhuskers overall . Notre Dame . After a long , twenty - six year layoff , Nebraska and Notre Dame finally resumed their series tied at 5 – 5 – 1 since their last meeting in 1925 . Both schools hoped that the cultural aftereffects of the war in Europe would put to bed the hate - filled interactions that ended the series twenty years prior . Unlike their last meeting , however , Notre Dame was still in the position as national power and ranked # 2 entering the game , while the Cornhuskers remained in the throes of trying to recover from a six - season slide . Thus it was not much of a surprise when Nebraska ended the day at Notre Dame Stadium with a shutout loss to the Fighting Irish in front of one of the largest crowds that the Cornhuskers had played in front of in many years . Despite the score , the game should have been closer than it seemed , but numerous scoring opportunities handed to Nebraska were time and again wasted on fumbles and other errors , putting Notre Dame in charge of the series for the first time since 1924 . Notre Dame went on to finish 1947 unbeaten at 9 – 0 and shared the national title with Michigan . Kansas State . Nebraska was unable to finally put points up until the second half , but by holding Kansas State to a single touchdown , the Cornhuskers remained perfect in conference play . This was the fifth straight win for Nebraska in the series as the Cornhuskers improved over the Wildcats to 26 – 4 – 2 overall . Missouri . Hopes for a respectable season began to crumble when the mighty Missouri football squad crushed Nebraska in Columbia . With Tiger starters pulled from the game , the Cornhuskers were still unable to prevent the Missouri backups from putting three scores up in the final quarter . Only a third quarter touchdown prevented the insult of a shutout loss . It was Missouri ' s eighth win in the last ten meetings of the teams , but the Tigers were still ten wins behind in the series at 24 – 34 – 3 . The Missouri - Nebraska Victory Bell was re - introduced after a period of inactivity during World War II , but the series trophy remained in custody of Missouri after the game . Kansas . Kansas managed to secure a rare win in Lincoln with a touchdown punched through Nebraska ' s defenses in the final 40 seconds of the contest to deny celebration to the crowd of 22 , 000 present for the Cornhusker homecoming game . The Jayhawks went on to finish the season 8 – 0 – 2 and ranked 12th by the AP Poll , sharing the Big 6 championship with Oklahoma . Nebraska ' s firm series ownership was still safe at 40 – 11 – 3 . Oklahoma . Oklahoma snatched away their fifth straight win over Nebraska in a hard fought contest decided by a single missed conversion in the second quarter . Attempts by both teams to decide the game in the fourth quarter were turned away . The Cornhuskers still owned a 16 – 8 – 3 edge in the series , though the Sooners were slowly and steadily chipping away at the lead . Oklahoma went on to finish 1947 with a 7 – 2 – 1 record , a # 16 AP Poll ranking , and shared the Big 6 title with Kansas . Oregon State . The Oregon State Beavers had not met Nebraska on the field since 1936 , and arrived in Lincoln with several losses behind them , leading some to assume the Cornhuskers would not have serious trouble securing a season - ending win . Someone forget to tell Oregon State that they were supposed to lose , however , and the Beavers spent the day romping and outplaying the Nebraska squad in every way . The Cornhuskers managed just a single touchdown as Oregon State out - rushed them 190 – 42 and out - passed them 254 – 31 . It was a harsh ending to Nebraska ' s season , as the Beavers secured their first win in the series after six attempts . After the season . Head coach Masterson ' s second season was step backwards for a team already in a record - setting slide . This was the seventh losing season in a row , and coach Masterson ' s first head coaching position became his last . His overall coaching career of 5 – 13 – 0 ( . 278 ) was the third - lowest in program history to date , though his Big 6 record broke even at 5 – 5 – 0 ( . 500 ) . Nebraska ' s overall record slipped to 314 – 140 – 31 ( . 679 ) and the Cornhuskers Big 6 total also fell slightly , to 118 – 33 – 11 ( . 762 ) . Another coaching change was upon Nebraska , where the continuing turnover was causing harm but could not be avoided .