1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
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 →

Last updated December 08, 2023

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 All times are in Central time

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

^[5]



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]

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]

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]

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.

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References

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↑ "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.
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[2] "Hungry Jayhawk Has a Full Meal". The Lincoln Sunday Star. November 19, 1916. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.

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