1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

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1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
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Nebraska state champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–4
Head coach
Home stadium Antelope Field
Seasons
  1905
1907  
1906 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Saint Louis   11 0 0
North Dakota Agricultural   5 0 0
Butler   1 0 0
Michigan State Normal   5 0 1
Iowa State   9 1 0
Ohio   7 1 0
Notre Dame   6 1 0
St. Mary's (OH)   5 1 0
Fairmount   7 1 2
Wabash   5 1 1
South Dakota State   3 1 0
Kansas   7 2 2
Kansas State   5 2 0
Missouri   5 2 1
Detroit College   4 2 1
Northern Illinois State   4 2 1
Carthage   3 2 0
Lake Forest   3 2 0
Nebraska   6 4 0
Wittenberg   5 4 1
Heidelberg   3 3 1
Washington University   2 2 2
Beloit   3 4 1
Franklin   3 4 0
Doane   2 3 0
Shurtleff   2 4 2
Western State Normal   1 2 0
Mount Union   2 5 1
Drake   2 5 0
Haskell   2 5 0
Marquette   1 4 2
Chicago P&S   0 1 1
Cincinnati   0 7 2
Western Illinois   0 3 0

The 1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1906 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Amos Foster and played its home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. [1] The team competed as an independent.

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Prior to replacing the retiring Walter C. Booth at NU, Foster compiled an 11–4 record in two years coaching Cincinnati. Foster left Nebraska following the season and was quickly offered his old job at Cincinnati, but declined, instead accepting an offer to coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Following the 1905 season, United States President Theodore Roosevelt urged among the new rules adopted in 1906 included the legalization of the forward pass, an increase in the distance required to get a first down, the abolishment of the dangerous flying wedge, and the establishment of a neutral zone between the offense and defense at the line of scrimmage. [2]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29 Hastings W 56–0
October 6 South Dakota
  • Antelope Field
  • Lincoln, NE
W 4–0
October 13 Drake
  • Antelope Field
  • Lincoln, NE
W 5–0 [3]
October 20 Iowa State
  • Antelope Field
  • Lincoln, NE (rivalry)
L 2–14
October 27 Doane
  • Antelope Field
  • Lincoln, NE
W 28–0
November 3at Minnesota L 0–135,000
November 103:30 p.m.at Creighton
W 17–0
November 172:30 p.m. Kansas
  • Antelope Field
  • Lincoln, NE (rivalry)
L 6–8 [4]
November 24at Chicago L 5–38
November 292:30 p.m. Cincinnati
  • Antelope Field
  • Lincoln, NE
W 41–02,500 [5] [6]

Coaching staff

Coach [7] [8] [9] PositionFirst yearAlma mater
Amos Foster Head coach1906 Dartmouth
T. M. StewartAssistant coach1906 Michigan
Jack BestTrainer1890 Nebraska

Roster

[10]

Benedict, MauriceE
Chaloupka, WilliamFB
Cooke, HaroldQB
CornellG
Craig, HughFB
Denslow, LloydE
Drain, DaleQB
Ewing, HenryLT
Harvey, JamesE/LT
Johnson, WilliamE
Little, Ernest (Merle)E
Mason, JohnLT
Matters, ThomasLT
McDonald, GilQB
Rice, JohnRT
Schmidt, FrancisE
Taylor, RobertRG
VossRT
Weller, JohnHB
Wilke, C.R.C

Game summaries

Hastings

Hastings at Nebraska
Team12Total
Hastings 0
Nebraska56

[11] [12]

South Dakota

South Dakota at Nebraska
Team12Total
South Dakota 000
Nebraska044

[11] [12]

Drake

Drake at Nebraska
Team12Total
Drake 0
Nebraska5

[11] [12]

Iowa State

Iowa State at Nebraska
Team12Total
Iowa State 14
Nebraska2

Nebraska's 35-game home field winning streak, dating back to the beginning of the 1901 season, was broken when Iowa State beat NU 14–2. Only a late safety prevented Nebraska from being shut out. [11] [12]

Doane

Doane at Nebraska
Team12Total
Doane 0
Nebraska28

[11] [12]

At Minnesota

Nebraska at Minnesota
Team12Total
Nebraska000
Minnesota 01313

Minnesota shut out the Cornhuskers in Minneapolis for the second consecutive year in a game that remained scoreless until after halftime. Minnesota finished the season as co-champion of the Big Nine. [11] [12]

At Creighton

Creighton at Nebraska
Team12Total
Creighton 0
Nebraska17

Nebraska shut out Creighton in Omaha in the final game between the two teams. NU defeated all other in-state teams for the third year in a row to claim another state championship. [11] [12]

Kansas

Kansas at Nebraska
Team12Total
Kansas 808
Nebraska606

KU defeated a sloppy Nebraska team in the first game in a streak of 107 consecutive seasons the two teams played, still an NCAA record. [11] [12]

At Chicago

Nebraska at Chicago
Team12Total
Nebraska5
Chicago 38

Nebraska was shut out by Chicago, then a member of the Big Nine Conference, in the first meeting between the two teams. [11] [12]

Cincinnati

Cincinnati at Nebraska
Team12Total
Cincinnati 0
Nebraska41

Foster's former team traveled to Lincoln in what is still the only game ever played between Cincinnati and Nebraska. The teams were scheduled to play in 2020, but the game was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cincinnati and Nebraska are scheduled to meet for the second time in 2025. [11] [12]

References

  1. "1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  2. "How Teddy Roosevelt helped save football - The Washington Post".
  3. "Nebraska Wins Close Game: Cornhuskers Get Single Touchdown Against Drake". Sunday State Journal. October 14, 1906. p. 2 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Kansas 8, Nebraska 6". The Lincoln Daily Star. November 18, 1906. p. 9 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Final Game Of The Season". The Lincoln Daily Star . Lincoln, Nebraska. November 29, 1906. p. 1. Retrieved March 12, 2025 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  6. "Ends With A Win—Football Season Closes With Victory For Nebraska". Nebraska State Journal . Lincoln, Nebraska. November 30, 1906. pp. 1–2 . Retrieved March 12, 2025 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  7. "Nebraska head coaches". HuskerMax. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
  8. "118 Years of Cornhusker Football" (PDF). University of Nebraska Athletics Department. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  9. "1907 Sombrero - University of Nebraska Yearbook". University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
  10. "Nebraska Football 1906 Roster". University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletics Department. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "1906 Game Recaps". Husker Press Box. Retrieved November 15, 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "the 1900s". HuskerMax. Retrieved November 15, 2009.