1934 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1934 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1934 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 returned for a sixth year with many conference titles to his credit , but suffered the loss of all but one of his starting 1933 players to graduation , and was therefore breaking in a relatively inexperienced squad . Bible ' s length of tenure at Nebraska had thus far been a clear success , and his length of service now matched the stretch held by Walter C . Booth in his six years as coach from 1900 to 1905 , which was at that time the longest in program history . Game notes . Wyoming . Wyoming and Nebraska met on the field for the first time ever , and coach Bible made sure the Cowboys understood what it was to face the Cornhusker machine . Wyoming was outclassed , outyarded and generally pushed around the field the entire game as the Cornhuskers easily rolled up 50 points in a dominating shutout which was the most points scored and largest margin of victory by Nebraska since a 58 - 0 blanking of Grinnell in 1927 . The only disappointment of the game was Nebraska ' s two successful points after attempts in eight tries . Minnesota . Nebraska ' s fortunes were quickly and clearly reversed when the Golden Gophers welcomed Nebraska to Minneapolis by soundly defeating them 20 - 0 . Nebraska tried to make it a game and held Minnesota to a single first half score , but their attempt to tie it up was rebuffed when the Gophers managed to turn the Cornhuskers away with no points from just three yards out . Nebraska ' s defensive stand finally broke open in the fourth quarter as Minnesota put in two more scores to secure the victory , setting the Cornhuskers back to 2 - 12 - 2 in the series . Minnesota went on to finish their season 8 - 0 - 0 and ranked # 1 in the nation by the Dickinson System . Iowa . Iowa brought a squad loaded with experienced veterans to Lincoln , and was favored to win against Nebraska ' s relatively inexperienced squad that was still smarting from the 0 - 20 downing handed them by Minnesota the week prior . Both teams fought to a standstill for the first half , but in the third quarter the Cornhuskers managed to put the ball across the line to get points on the board . The Hawkeyes promptly answered , but their point after went wide . The teams traded touchdowns again in the fourth quarter , but the missed kick in the third quarter came back to haunt Iowa as time ran out before they could make up the missing point . Nebraska improved to 16 - 7 - 3 in the series . Oklahoma . Nebraska opened conference play against a stubborn Sooner team that intended to take advantage of the inexperienced Cornhusker roster . At one point in the first half , Oklahoma rolled up to Nebraska ' s 2 - yard line with 1st and goal , yet the Cornhuskers stonewalled all four attempts and sent the Sooners back with nothing to show for their efforts . Nebraska ' s fortunes were much the same when they were repelled with 1st and goal at the Oklahoma 5 - yard line later in the game . As the final five minutes were ticking away , the Cornhuskers managed to block a punt and took over at the Sooner 25 , punching in the game ' s sole touchdown five plays later to snatch the win and advance to 10 - 2 - 2 against Oklahoma all time . Iowa State . Iowa State fought a fierce and close game , picking up 13 first downs to Nebraska ' s 9 , in a mostly defensive battle that ranged back and forth with few points produced and only a handful of big plays . In the end , once again it was Nebraska ' s kicking game that saved the day with a successful point after kick , much to the relief of the Cornhuskers who had suffered a 2 of 8 kicking record in the first game of the season . Iowa State went home in disappointment , by one point having suffered yet another defeat in the series in which they lagged far behind , at 4 - 24 - 1 . Pittsburgh . The inexperience of the Nebraska squad was exposed again when the reigning eastern champion Pittsburgh team arrived in Lincoln and successfully extended their winning streak over Nebraska . The game was never seriously in doubt as the Panthers moved the ball with relative ease , allowing the Cornhuskers just one touchdown near the end of the game to avoid a total shutout . The loss in Lincoln was the first home - field defeat since a 9 - 10 game was dropped to Kansas State at the end of the 1930 season . Nebraska fell to 1 - 5 - 3 in the Pitt series . Pittsburgh went on to finish their season 8 - 1 - 0 and ranked # 2 in the nation by the Dickinson System . Kansas . An extended period of rain leading up to the game resulted in slippery , muddy , sloppy conditions that prevented either team from consistent success , though the edge belonged to the Cornhuskers statistically . Nebraska rolled up 245 yards while Kansas managed only 44 , but the Cornhuskers lost fumbles at the Kansas 5 - yard line two times among other miscues that kept them off the board . The scoreless frustration was ended when Nebraska managed a field goal in the fourth quarter , which would be the only points of the game . This was Nebraska ' s 30th win in the series , with Kansas having collected only 9 wins and 2 tie games between them . Missouri . Nebraska may have insulted the Missouri squad by initially starting the game with backups , in the style of Knute Rockne ' s Notre Dame teams of years past , and the second team in fact quickly drove down the field to what seemed an inevitable score when the Tigers finally woke up and stopped them 10 yards out . Coach Bible put the starters in beginning in the second quarter , but the teams went on to hold each other off the board until halftime . Missouri was poised to finally secure a win in the series with a third quarter score , and the Cornhusker squad looked like it might be downed in front of their own homecoming crowd as the final quarter got underway . At last , and inside of just two minutes , Nebraska punched in a couple of touchdowns to gain the edge . Missouri began to crumble at that point , allowing Nebraska two more carries across the goal line , however both were called back on penalties . The MIssouri - Nebraska Bell would remain in Lincoln yet another year as Missouri dropped their seventh straight to Nebraska and fell to 6 - 19 - 3 in the series . Kansas State . Nebraska , against many predictions due to the inexperienced team that began the season , faced only one more obstacle between them and another Big 6 championship . Kansas State , responsible for the only previous Big 6 title that was not won by the Cornhuskers by way of a Wildcat win in 1930 , once again dashed Nebraska ' s intent to take home another league banner . The Cornhuskers managed to score first and entered the halftime break ahead 7 - 0 , but it was all Kansas State for the rest of the day , although Nebraska took a small comfort in securing 21 first downs to the 13 obtained by the Wildcats , and remained comfortably in the series lead at 16 - 2 - 1 . After the season . Despite the season ' s final record , 1934 was still regarded as a success , considering that the starting players were significantly inexperienced compared to most of their opponents , yet only lost three games on the season , with two of those losses handed over to the eventual # 1 and # 2 teams in the nation . Coach Bible ' s career record dipped slightly with the three losses , to 37 - 11 - 6 ( . 741 ) . For only the second time since the Big 6 formed , Nebraska failed to take the league championship , having to settle for 2nd place . The program ' s overall record now stood at 257 - 85 - 26 , and the league record at 78 - 11 - 8 ( . 845 ) .