1955 Orange Bowl

American college football game August 2023 August 2025 1955 Poster 1955 Orange Bowl.jpg 175px Orange Bowl 21st Orange Bowl 1954 Duke Blue Devils Duke University Nebraska Cornhuskers University of Nebraska 7–2–1 ACC 6–4 MVIAA William Murray Bill Glassford 14 14 0 14 6 14 0 0 7 0 January 1 Miami Orange Bowl Miami, Florida Duke by 14https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9tUjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z-YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3945%2C57418 Busy scoreboard eyed as Duke, Nebraska tangle The Spokesman-Review Spokane, Washington Associated Press January 1, 1955 8 Cliff Ogden (MVIAA) 68,750 CBS List of announcers of major college bowl games Bob Neal The 1955 Orange Bowl was the twenty-first edition of the college football bowl game, held on January 1, 1955 at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. It matched the Duke Blue Devils of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Nebraska Cornhuskers of the MVIAA. In the first Orange Bowl appearance for each team, fourteenth-ranked Duke won 34–7 in front of a record crowd.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Bo8zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j3oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2723%2C704906 Duke rips Huskers 34–7 Ben Funk St. Petersburg Times Associated Press January 2, 1955 1C Teams Duke 1954 Duke Blue Devils football team The Blue Devils won all four of their conference games; they tied Purdue and lost to both Army and Navy. This was Duke's fourth bowl appearance and its first in ten years. United States Vice President Richard Nixon, an alumnus of the Duke University School of Law, attended the game. Nebraska 1954 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team Nebraska entered 6–4, the MVIAA runner-up to undefeated Oklahoma. NU lost to OU 55–7 in the regular season's penultimate week, but the Sooners were not invited to the Orange Bowl as conference rules prevented consecutive appearances.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QEEqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=200EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2416%2C1352590 Oklahoma tramples Nebraska, 55 to 7 Pittsburgh Press United Press International November 21, 1954 2, section 3 Nebraska was making its second bowl appearance and first in fourteen years. Game Heavily favored Duke opened the scoring early in the second quarter, and intercepted Nebraska quarterback Don Erway on NU's ensuing drive to set up another touchdown, taking a 14–0 lead into halftime. Early in the second half, the Cornhuskers took advantage of a botched Blue Devils punt to cut the deficit in half, but it would be NU's only points of the game. Duke took control behind All-American running back Bob Pascal, who both teams with ninety-one rushing yards. Three late Blue Devils touchdowns sealed a dominant victory.http://dataomaha.com/huskers/history/game/1955-1-1-duke Helpless Nebraskans Absorb 34-7 Licking Floyd Olds Omaha World-Herald January 2, 1955 August 16, 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20170420160037if_/http://dataomaha.com/huskers/history/game/1955-1-1-duke April 20, 2017 dead Scoring summary Qtr Team Detailhttps://www.huskermax.com/games/1954/11duke.html Blue Devils roll to Orange Bowl win HuskerMax August 16, 2025 Duke NU 2 Duke Bob Pascal 2-yd run (Jim Nelson kick) 7 0 Duke Jerry Kocourek 5-yd pass from Jerry Barger (Nelson kick) 14 0 3 NU Don Comstock 3-yd run (Bob Smith kick) 14 7 Duke Sonny Sorrell 5-yd pass from Barger (kick failed) 20 7 4 Duke Nick McKeithan 1-yd run (Nelson kick) 27 7 Duke Sam Eberdt 3-yd run (Nelson kick) 34 7 Team statistics Statistic Duke Nebraska First downs 23 6 Rushes–yards 64–288 34–84 Comp.–att. Completions–pass attempts–yards 7–13–82 1–9–26 Total offense 370 110 Turnovers 1 2 Punts–average 5–23.6 7–28.9 Penalties–yards 2–30 2–20 References Rose Bowl Category:Orange Bowl Category:Duke Blue Devils football bowl games Category:Nebraska Cornhuskers football bowl games Category:January 1955 sports events in the United States Orange Bowl Category:American football competitions in Miami