1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

The 1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1916 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach E. J. Stewart and played its home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the Missouri Valley Conference. Nebraska's loss to Kansas in November ended NU's 34-game unbeaten streak.[1] Stewart, hired to replace the outgoing Ewald O. Stiehm, also served as Nebraska's basketball coach and athletic director.

1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
Missouri Valley champion
ConferenceMissouri Valley Conference
1916 record6–2 (3–1 MVC)
Head coach
Home stadiumNebraska Field
1916 Missouri Valley football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Nebraska $ 3 –1 –06 –2 –0
Missouri 3 –1 –16 –1 –1
Iowa State 2 –1 –15 –2 –1
Kansas State 1 –1 –16 –1 –1
Kansas 1 –2 –14 –3 –1
Drake 1 –3 –03 –5 –0
Washington University 0 –2 –03 –3 –1
  • $ – Conference champion

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResult
October 72:30 p.m.Drake
W 53–0
October 142:30 p.m.Kansas State
  • Nebraska Field
  • Lincoln, NE
W 14–0
October 214:30 p.m.at Oregon Agricultural*
W 17–7
October 282:30 p.m.Nebraska Wesleyan*
  • Nebraska Field
  • Lincoln, NE
W 21–0
November 42:30 p.m.Iowa State
  • Nebraska Field
  • Lincoln, NE
W 3–0
November 182:30 p.m.Kansas
  • Nebraska Field
  • Lincoln, NE
L 7–3
November 252:00 p.m.at Iowa*
W 34–17
November 302:30 p.m.Notre Dame*
  • Nebraska Field
  • Lincoln, NE
L 20–0
  • *Non-conference game
  • Homecoming

Coaching staff
Coach[2][3] Position First year Alma mater
E. J. StewartHead coach1916Mount Union
Richard RutherfordAssistant coach1916Nebraska
Vic HalliganAssistant coach1916Nebraska
Jack BestTrainer1890Nebraska

Roster

[4]

Caley, Loren E
Cameron, Robert RT
Cook, John QB
Corey, Tim T
Dale, Ben G
Dobson, Paul HB
Doyle, Raymond FB
Gardiner, Jimmy HB
Kositsky, Ed T
Moser, Ellsworth C
Norris, William T
Otopalik, Hugo HB
Rhodes, Roscoe E
Riddell, Ted E
Selzer, Milton HB
Shaw, Edson T
Wilder, Harold T

Game summaries

Drake
Drake at Nebraska
1 2Total
Drake 0
• Nebraska 53

Kansas State
Kansas State at Nebraska
1 2Total
Kansas State 0
• Nebraska 14
See also: Kansas State–Nebraska football rivalry

at Oregon Agricultural
Nebraska at Oregon State
1 2Total
• Nebraska 17
Oregon Agricultural 7

Nebraska traveled by train through Seattle and Spokane, making frequent publicity stops on the way to Portland to face head coach E. J. Stewart's former team. The university's annual yearbook predicted this would be the last time Nebraska's football team traveled so far from home. The Cornhuskers' 17–7 win gave the program its first West-Coast victory.

Nebraska Wesleyan
Nebraska Wesleyan at Nebraska
1 2Total
Nebraska Wesleyan 0
• Nebraska 21

Iowa State
Iowa State at Nebraska
1 2Total
Iowa State 0
• Nebraska 3

Kansas
Kansas at Nebraska
1 234Total
• Kansas 0 070 7
Nebraska 0 300 3
See also: Kansas–Nebraska football rivalry

The Jayhawks held Nebraska to just a second-quarter field goal and used a series of big plays in the third to end Nebraska's 34-game unbeaten streak and 39-game home unbeaten streak. It was Nebraska's second loss in eight seasons at Nebraska Field, both to Kansas.

at Iowa
Nebraska at Iowa
1 2Total
• Nebraska 34
Iowa 17
See also: Iowa–Nebraska football rivalry

Notre Dame
Notre Dame at Nebraska
1 2Total
• Notre Dame 20
Nebraska 0

Notre Dame's 20–0 defeat of Nebraska was the first time NU had been shutout in five seasons. The Irish were led by assistant Knute Rockne, as head coach Jesse Harper could not attend due to an annual coach's meeting in Chicago.

References
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  2. "Nebraska head coaches". HuskerMax. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
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  4. "Nebraska Football 1916 Roster". University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletics Department. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
  5. "the 1910s". HuskerMax. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
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