American college football season
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.
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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
Drake at Nebraska
1
2 Total
Drake
0
• Nebraska
53
At Oregon Agricultural [ edit ]
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 at Nebraska
Kansas at Nebraska
1
2 3 4 Total
• Kansas
0
0 7 0
7
Nebraska
0
3 0 0
3
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.
Nebraska at Iowa
1
2 Total
• Nebraska
34
Iowa
17
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.
^ "1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .
^ "Hungry Jayhawk Has a Full Meal" . The Lincoln Sunday Star . November 19, 1916. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Nebraska head coaches" . HuskerMax. Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
^ "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 139)" . University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
^ "Nebraska Football 1916 Roster" . University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletics Department. Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
^ a b c d e f g h "the 1910s" . HuskerMax. Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
^ a b c "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 150)" . University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
^ "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 151)" . University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
^ a b "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 152)" . University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
^ a b "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 153)" . University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
^ "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 154)" . University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009 .
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