1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
MVC champion
Conference	Missouri Valley Conference
Record	6–2 (3–1 MVC)
Head coach	E. J. Stewart (1st season)
Home stadium	Nebraska Field
Seasons ←  1915 1917  →

1916 MVIAA football standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Nebraska $	3	–	1	–	0			6	–	2	–	0
Missouri	3	–	1	–	1			6	–	1	–	1
Iowa State	2	–	1	–	1			5	–	2	–	1
Kansas State	1	–	1	–	1			6	–	1	–	1
Kansas	1	–	2	–	1			4	–	3	–	1
Drake	1	–	3	–	0			3	–	5	–	0
Washington University	0	–	2	–	0			3	–	3	–	1
$ – Conference champion

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.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 7	2:30 p.m.	Drake	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE	W 53–0
October 14	2:30 p.m.	Kansas State	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE (rivalry)	W 14–0
October 21	4:30 p.m.	at Oregon Agricultural *	Multnomah Field Portland, OR	W 17–7
October 28	2:30 p.m.	Nebraska Wesleyan *	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE	W 21–0
November 4	2:30 p.m.	Iowa State	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE	W 3–0
November 18	2:30 p.m.	Kansas	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE (rivalry)	L 3–7	6,000	[2]
November 25	2:00 p.m.	at Iowa *	Iowa Field Iowa City, IA (rivalry)	W 34–17
November 30	2:30 p.m.	Notre Dame *	Nebraska Field Lincoln, NE (rivalry)	L 0–20
*Non-conference game Homecoming

Coaching staff

Coach [3] [4]	Position	First year	Alma mater
E. J. Stewart	Head coach	1916	Mount Union
Richard Rutherford	Assistant coach	1916	Nebraska
Vic Halligan	Assistant coach	1916	Nebraska
Jack Best	Trainer	1890	Nebraska

Roster

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Caley, LorenE Cameron, RobertRT Cook, JohnQB Corey, TimT Dale, BenG Dobson, PaulHB Doyle, RaymondFB Gardiner, JimmyHB Kositsky, EdT Moser, EllsworthC Norris, WilliamT Otopalik, Hugo HB Rhodes, RoscoeE Riddell, TedE Selzer, MiltonHB Shaw, EdsonT Wilder, HaroldT

Game summaries

Drake

Drake at Nebraska

1 2 Total Drake 0 •Nebraska 53 Date: October 7 Location: Nebraska Field, Lincoln, NE Game start: 2:30 p.m. Sources: [6]

Kansas State

Kansas State at Nebraska

1 2 Total Kansas State 0 •Nebraska 14 Date: October 14 Location: Nebraska Field, Lincoln, NE Game start: 2:30 p.m. Sources: [6]

See also: Kansas State–Nebraska football rivalry

At Oregon Agricultural

Nebraska at Oregon State

1 2 Total •Nebraska 17 Oregon Agricultural 7 Date: October 21 Location: Multnomah Field, Portland, OR Game start: 4:30 p.m. Sources: [6] [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 2 Total Nebraska Wesleyan 0 •Nebraska 21 Date: October 28 Location: Nebraska Field, Lincoln, NE Game start: 2:30 p.m. Sources: [6] [7]

Iowa State

Iowa State at Nebraska

1 2 Total Iowa State 0 •Nebraska 3 Date: November 4 Location: Nebraska Field, Lincoln, NE Game start: 2:30 p.m. Sources: [6] [7]

Kansas

Kansas at Nebraska

1 2 3 4 Total • Kansas 0 0 7 0 7 Nebraska 0 3 0 0 3 Date: November 18 Location: Nebraska Field, Lincoln, NE Game start: 2:30 p.m. Sources: [6] [8] [9]

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 2 Total •Nebraska 34 Iowa 17 Date: November 25 Location: Iowa Field, Iowa City, IA Game start: 2:00 p.m. Sources: [6] [9] [10]

See also: Iowa–Nebraska football rivalry

Notre Dame

Notre Dame at Nebraska

1 2 Total • Notre Dame 20 Nebraska 0 Date: November 30 Location: Nebraska Field, Lincoln, NE Game start: 2:30 p.m. Sources: [6] [10] [11]

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

1. "1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
2. "Hungry Jayhawk Has a Full Meal". The Lincoln Sunday Star. November 19, 1916. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Nebraska head coaches". HuskerMax. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
4. "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 139)". University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
5. "Nebraska Football 1916 Roster". University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletics Department. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
6. "the 1910s". HuskerMax. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
7. "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 150)". University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
8. "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 151)". University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
9. "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 152)". University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
10. "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 153)". University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
11. "1917 Cornhusker - University of Nebraska Yearbook (Page 154)". University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Retrieved November 22, 2009.