Conference Timeline - Big 6

Teams: Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas State, Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri

Football

• Nine Conference Titles
• 83 All-Conference Selections
• 10 First-Team All-Americans, including consensus All-Americans George Sauer in 1933 and Sam Francis in 1936
• Sam Francis finished second in the 1936 Heisman voting
• Nebraska played in its first bowl game at the 1941 Rose Bowl with a 21-13 loss to Stanford

 

Men's Basketball

• Eight All-Conference Picks
• Four All-Americans
• One Big Six title in 1936-37

 

Baseball

• Won the first-ever Big Six championship by going 12-5-1 in 1929

 

Wrestling

• Adolph Simic won the 155-pound conference title in 1929
• Never finished lower than fourth in the conference in its last five years

 

Track and Field

• Won 19 men's conference titles, including four straight indoor titles from 1930-1933 and four straigh outdoors from 1939-1942

 

Cross Country

• Men win their first conference title in 1940
• Bobby Ginn wins three straight conference titles from
• No conference meet from 1942-1945 because of World War II

 

Men's Golf (began in 1935)

• Two Conference Championships