Morning Trivia!!!

[MAG_rivals203855]

When/were/who was the very first time the Husker football team played a game on Black Friday? Clue's: It was pre-Devaney. In a warm weather location. The following year this same team shocked the Huskers 6-0....in Lincoln!

 

[saluno22]

I cheated and looked at the OWH photo gallery published the other day. I'll add another four clues, a fact, and a depressing quote ...

Clue #1: It was not a conference game.
Clue #2: It was not a home game.
Clue #3: It was after WWII (that narrows the window to be between 1945 and 1962).
Clue #4: It was the first meeting ever between the two teams.

Fact: Devaney never coached a game on Black Friday while at Nebraska.

Quote from the 1973 Black Friday at OU (Sooners won 27-0): "Oklahoma invited Nebraska down to play a game of football Friday and only allowed the Cornhuskers to use half the field while the Sooners got to play with the full 100 yards," Tom Ash wrote for The World-Herald. "If six points were awarded for crossing midfield, the score still would have been 27-zip."

 

[saluno22]

In a warm weather location. The following year this same team shocked the Huskers 6-0....in Lincoln!

I went to look at the following season: first game of the year! What a profoundly different outcome. Also, fun to see like most teams from warm weather only traveling to Lincoln when there's no chance of it being cold (similar to Notre Dame's deal with USC and Stanford to play at home against one in the middle of the year and in California the last week of the season).

 

[BeautifulDayintheNeighborhood]

Iowa

 

[resdog851_rivals159165]

LSU?

 

[saluno22]

LSU?

Incorrect, but a good guess.

Another clue: The opponent was and still is not from a power conference.

 

[saluno22]

@MAG I hope it's okay for me to hijack

 

[MAG_rivals203855]

@MAG I hope it's okay for me to hijack

It's okay. Not my message board. You are a recruiting coordinator (according to your Avatar) so you need to do your job.

 

[MAG_rivals203855]

Alright, it's been long enough. It's Hawaii in 1954. The Huskers traveled to Honolulu over the Thanksgiving Holiday played and beat the Rainbow Warriors 50-0 on Black Friday. In early November the Husker were ranked 20th in the nation. Finished the '54 season unranked at 6-5 after losing to Duke in the Orange Bowl. The first game of the '55 season Hawaii traveled to Lincoln with only 28 players and beat the Huskers 6-0. The Huskers evidently got caught looking past the Rainbows Warriors to the next game against Ohio State. (Here's a link for the story about the game). I believe the 1955 season was Bill Glassford's last at NU.