1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
American college football team season
The 1943 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska as a member of the Big Six Conference during the 1943 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Adolph J. Lewandowski, the Cornhuskers compiled an overall record of 2–6 with a mark of 2–3 in conference play, tying for fourth place in the Big 6. Nebraska played home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.
In the final Litkenhous Ratings, Nebraska ranked 133rd among the nation's college and service teams with a rating of 57.0.
Before the season
New Nebraska athletic director and head football coach Lewandowski assumed control of a Nebraska program in distress. World War II was dramatically impacting the way of life in the United States, which contributed at least in part to the change in fortunes for the Cornhuskers, although the Nebraska program was fortunate to still have a team on the field at all, as at least twenty major college programs suspended their football programs in 1943 due to the impacts of the war. Coming off the 3–7–0 1942 season, it would not take much to post an improvement if Nebraska could overcome the setbacks dealt over the past two seasons. Former Nebraska all-American star player and assistant coach Ed Weir also returned to the coaching staff this season after five years away, increasing hopes of a Cornhusker rebirth, though overall the coaching staff was reduced by more than half of its personnel from 1942.
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Minnesota
The Golden Gophers brought Nebraska to Minneapolis and provided a harsh introduction to the 1943 season for the green and depleted Cornhusker team. Scoring on their first possession and leading 13–0 by the end of the first quarter, Minnesota never looked back as they handed Nebraska the worst loss in program history, a dominating 54–0 blanking.
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