1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football

Nebraska State Champions
Conference	Independent
1906 record	6–4
Head coach	Amos Foster (1st year)
Home stadium	Antelope Field

The 1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1906 college football season. The team was coached by Amos Foster and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Before the season

New coach Foster arrived to replace previous coach Walter C. Booth, after compiling an 11-4 record in two years coaching for the University of Cincinnati.

New rules going into effect this year significantly changed the way the game was played, including an increase in the distance required to get a first down to ten yards, and also that an incomplete pass would be considered a turnover. Nebraska's existing schemes were not built around these new rules, and bringing in a new coach also unsettled affairs somewhat going into the season.

Schedule

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
September 29	Hastings	Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska	W 56-0	-
October 6	South Dakota	Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska	W 4-0	-
October 13	Drake	Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska	W 5-0	-
October 20	Iowa State	Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska	L 2-14	-
October 27	Doane	Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska	W 28-0	-
November 3	at Minnesota	Northrop Field • Minneapolis, Minnesota	L 0-13	-
November 10	Creighton	Omaha, Nebraska	W 17-0	-
November 17	Kansas	Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska	L 6-8	-
November 24	at Chicago	Stagg Field • Chicago, Illinois	L 5-38	-
November 29	Cincinnati	Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska	W 41-0	-

Roster

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Benedict, Maurice E Chaloupka, William FB Cooke, Harold QB Cornell G Craig, Hugh FB Denslow, Lloyd E Drain, Dale QB Ewing, Henry LT Harvey, James E/LT Johnson, William E Little, Ernest (Merle) E Mason, John LT Matters, Thomas LT McDonald, Gil QB Rice, John RT Schmidt, Francis E Taylor, Robert RG Voss RT Weller, John HB Wilke, C.R. C

Coaching staff

Name	Title	First year in this position	Years at Nebraska	Alma Mater
Amos Foster	Head Coach	1906	1906	Dartmouth
Jack Best	Trainer	1890	1890–1922
T. M. Stewart	Assistant Coach	1906	1906	Michigan

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Game notes

Hastings

Hastings at Nebraska

	1	2	Total
Hastings			0
• Nebraska			56

Date: 1906-09-29
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska

Nebraska opened the season under new coach Foster with a solid shutout performance against Hastings College in the first meeting of these teams. ^[6]^[7]

South Dakota

South Dakota at Nebraska

	1	2	Total
South Dakota	0	0	0
• Nebraska	0	4	4

Date: 1906-10-06
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska

South Dakota seemed to have figured out how to shut down Nebraska's offense, forcing the Cornhuskers to win with field goals instead of touchdowns. The low-scoring affair was Nebraska's third win in four games against the Coyotes. ^[6]^[7]

Drake

Drake at Nebraska

	1	2	Total
Drake			0
• Nebraska			5

Date: 1906-10-13
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska

For the second week in a row, as the offense struggled, the Nebraska defense came through and kept the other team off the board so that Nebraska's single touchdown was enough to get the win. It had been five years since these teams last met, and Nebraska extended the series lead to 3-1.^[6]^[7]

Iowa State

Iowa State at Nebraska

	1	2	Total
• Iowa State			14
Nebraska			2

Date: 1906-10-20
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska

Nebraska's home field winning streak of 38 straight games (including exhibition games) dating back to the beginning of the 1901 season was broken when Iowa State took advantage of the Cornhuskers' struggling offensive output. A late safety prevented Nebraska from being shut out, and Iowa State reduced their series deficit to 3-5.^[6]^[7]

Doane

Doane at Nebraska

	1	2	Total
Doane			0
• Nebraska			28

Date: 1906-10-27
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska

Nebraska again defeated Doane in Lincoln, in a shutout win, to try to erase the memory of the previous week's home field loss. Nebraska's lead in the series was increasingly getting out of reach at 10-2.^[6]^[7]

Minnesota

Nebraska at Minnesota

	1	2	Total
Nebraska	0	0	0
• Minnesota	0	13	13

Date: 1906-11-03
Location: Northrop Field • Minneapolis, Minnesota

Nebraska's frustration with rival Minnesota was continued as the Golden Gophers again shut out the Cornhuskers in Minneapolis for the second year in a row, which was also Nebraska's third loss to Minnesota over the past three years. The defensive fight kept the scoreboard empty until the second half, when Minnesota again broke through and extended their lead over Nebraska to 5-1. Minnesota would go on to finish as Big Nine Co-Champion. ^[6]^[7]

Creighton

Creighton at Nebraska

	1	2	Total
Creighton			0
• Nebraska			17

Date: 1906-11-10
Location: Omaha, Nebraska

Nebraska bounced back from the demoralizing loss at Minnesota by putting away Creighton in Omaha, notching another shutout win. This was the final time these teams would meet, the record ending with all three wins in the Nebraska column. Nebraska finished with wins against all in-state teams for the third year in a row to claim another state championship.^[6]^[7]

Kansas

Kansas at Nebraska

	1	2	Total
• Kansas	8	0	8
Nebraska	6	0	6

Date: 1906-11-17
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska

After a three-year break, Kansas and Nebraska met on the field again. The series afterward would continue uninterrupted for over one hundred years, and as of 2009 is scheduled to continue at least through 2015 and likely longer. Multiple Cornhusker mistakes cost Nebraska the game on this day, resulting in the second home field loss for the Cornhuskers this season. Nebraska's lead in the series slipped to just 7-6. ^[6]^[7]

Chicago

Nebraska at Chicago

	1	2	Total
Nebraska			5
• Chicago			38

Date: 1906-11-24
Location: Stagg Field • Chicago, Illinois

Nebraska traveled to Chicago to meet the City's University squad for the first time. At that time, Chicago was a member of the vaunted Big Nine Conference. The conference reputation was apparently well-deserved, as the Cornhuskers struggled to make serious progress while Chicago rolled up 38 points and sent them home with their 4th loss of the season.^[6]^[7]

Cincinnati

Cincinnati at Nebraska

	1	2	Total
Cincinnati			0
• Nebraska			41

Date: 1906-11-29
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska

Coach Foster's former team, Cincinnati, traveled to Nebraska for the only time to date that these teams would meet. It was a positive end to a season of some disappointment for the Cornhuskers, as the Cincinnati team was sent back home to Ohio smarting from a 0-41 blanking.^[6]^[7]

After the season

Coach Foster only made it through this one year before moving on. His previous coaching job was again offered to him, but he instead passed that post up and went to coach for Miami University in Ohio, where he compiled a 13-1 record in his two years there.

Foster's one-year Nebraska record of 6-4-0 (.600) caused a slight drop in Nebraska's overall program record, which fell to 93-37-5 (.707).

References

↑ "Football - 1906 Schedule/Results". University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletics Department. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
↑ "Nebraska Football 1906 Roster". University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletics Department. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
↑ "Nebraska head coaches". HuskerMax. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
↑ "118 Years of Cornhusker Football" (PDF). University of Nebraska Athletics Department. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
↑ "1907 Sombrero - University of Nebraska Yearbook". University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries. Archived from the original on March 5, 2012. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "the 1900s". HuskerMax. Retrieved 2009-11-15.

Nebraska Cornhuskers football

Venues	Lincoln Park (1890–95) "M" Street Park (1894–96) Antelope Field (1897–1908) Nebraska Field (1909–22) Memorial Stadium (1923–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Colorado Iowa (Heroes Trophy) Kansas Miami Minnesota ($5 Bits of Broken Chair) Missouri (Victory Bell) Oklahoma Texas Wisconsin (Freedom Trophy)

Culture & lore	Herbie Husker Lil' Red "Dear Old Nebraska U" "Hail Varsity" Marching band Blackshirts Origin of "Cornhuskers" 1939 Kansas State game 1971 Oklahoma game Fumblerooski 1982 Penn State game Flea Kicker Black 41 Flash Reverse Pass 1 Second Left

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