1916 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

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.

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 Missouri Valley Conference football standings

v t e	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

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 (rivalry)	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

^[5]

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

Game summaries

Drake

Drake at Nebraska

Team	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

Team	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

Team	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

Team	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

Team	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]

See also: Iowa State–Nebraska football rivalry

Kansas

Kansas at Nebraska

Team	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

Team	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

Team	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.