1950 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

The team was coached by Bill Glassford and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Halfback Bobby Reynolds led the country in scoring (157 points), ranked second nationally in rushing (1,342 yards) and finished fifth in the 1950 Heisman Trophy voting.

[9][10] Encouraged by the strong showing the week prior against the Hoosiers, Nebraska traveled to Minneapolis and refused to be intimidated by the Golden Gophers.

[9][11] Nebraska bounced back from the flat performance of the week before, and was firing on all cylinders when Penn State arrived in Lincoln for the first time ever in the third meeting of these teams.

[9][11] The Cornhuskers continued to build on the season's rising tide of successes by defeating the Jayhawks in Lawrence, snapping their three-game skid against Kansas.

The defeat of Missouri ended a five-game Tiger winning streak, and put Nebraska ahead in the series at 25–15–3.

[9][12] Kansas State found itself in the path of a rolling Cornhusker squad that was listed in the AP Poll for the first time since 1941, and was unable to get out of the way as the Cornhuskers hung 49 points on the scoreboard before the final whistle, which was the most points scored in a single game by Nebraska since a 53–0 blanking of lowly South Dakota in 1945.

[9] Coach Glassford's second season was a resounding success, as Nebraska end its brutal nine-season losing skid, and notched high-profile wins against Penn State and Minnesota in the process.

[13] Bobby Reynolds of Nebraska ultimately claimed the prize, which was presented to him in February 1951 by Hugo Winterhalter, the first performer of the song.