Way Back: No offense, plenty of defense vs. K-State in 1925
Nebraska 0, Kansas State 0, Nov. 14, 1925
The first of two scoreless ties between the two schools in 10 years (the other was on Oct. 20, 1935) was a defensive dream and an offensive nightmare.
The two teams combined for nine first downs and 203 yards on 90 plays. Kansas State had the only pass completion of the game, which featured 27 punts at Ahearn Field in Manhattan, Kan.
The Lincoln State Journal reported Nov. 15, 1925, under the headline, “Huskers Tie Kaggies,” with the subhead, “Kaggies Battle Nebraskans on Even Terms — Both Threaten.”
“Playing on a soggy field before about six thousand people at the homecoming contest for the Kansas Aggies, Nebraska and coach Bachman’s Wildcats in a game that was largely a punting duel battled to a scoreless tie here Saturday afternoon.
“The teams battled on fairly even terms, Nebraska in the third quarter starting a march down the field, after a run of twenty yards by Daily that looked as if the Huskers had hit a stride that might take them over the Kaggies’ goal line but they were halted by the fighting Wildcats and forced to punt.
“Neither side made a close threat to score and the game for the most part was not an exciting contest.”
In Oct. 20, 1935, the newspaper relates:
“The battle was waged under a boiling hot sun before a crowd of 16,200. So fiercely contested was the game that Coaches Bible and Wes Fry poured in substitutions onto the field with a monotonous regularity as heat and shoulder to shoulder play took its toll. The thermometer soared to such dizzy heights the spectators watched the game in shirt sleeves and the players spent most of the fourth quarter rest periods stretched out on the grass.
“A decade ago, Nebraska and Kansas State were deadlocked in a 0-0 stalemate on the same field. The year was 1925 and the Manhattan campus citizenry celebrated a moral victory. The same Aggieville Saturday night re-echoed the shouts as the Wildcat supporters made merry over a scoreless tie.”
The first of two scoreless ties between the two schools in 10 years (the other was on Oct. 20, 1935) was a defensive dream and an offensive nightmare.
The two teams combined for nine first downs and 203 yards on 90 plays. Kansas State had the only pass completion of the game, which featured 27 punts at Ahearn Field in Manhattan, Kan.
The Lincoln State Journal reported Nov. 15, 1925, under the headline, “Huskers Tie Kaggies,” with the subhead, “Kaggies Battle Nebraskans on Even Terms — Both Threaten.”
“Playing on a soggy field before about six thousand people at the homecoming contest for the Kansas Aggies, Nebraska and coach Bachman’s Wildcats in a game that was largely a punting duel battled to a scoreless tie here Saturday afternoon.
“The teams battled on fairly even terms, Nebraska in the third quarter starting a march down the field, after a run of twenty yards by Daily that looked as if the Huskers had hit a stride that might take them over the Kaggies’ goal line but they were halted by the fighting Wildcats and forced to punt.
“Neither side made a close threat to score and the game for the most part was not an exciting contest.”
In Oct. 20, 1935, the newspaper relates:
“The battle was waged under a boiling hot sun before a crowd of 16,200. So fiercely contested was the game that Coaches Bible and Wes Fry poured in substitutions onto the field with a monotonous regularity as heat and shoulder to shoulder play took its toll. The thermometer soared to such dizzy heights the spectators watched the game in shirt sleeves and the players spent most of the fourth quarter rest periods stretched out on the grass.
“A decade ago, Nebraska and Kansas State were deadlocked in a 0-0 stalemate on the same field. The year was 1925 and the Manhattan campus citizenry celebrated a moral victory. The same Aggieville Saturday night re-echoed the shouts as the Wildcat supporters made merry over a scoreless tie.”
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