1892 Nebraska Bugeaters football team
| 1892 Nebraska Bugeaters football | |
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| Conference | Western Interstate University Football Association |
| 1892 record | 2–2–1 (1–1–1 WIUFA) |
| Head coach | J. S. Williams (1st season) |
| Home stadium | Lincoln Park |
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| Kansas $ | 3 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1892 Nebraska Bugeaters football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1892 college football season. The team's head coach, J. S. Williams, coached only one game. The Nebraska Bugeaters played their home games at Lincoln Park, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Nebraska's football team began its history as the "Old Gold Knights", and was also sometimes known as the "Tree Planters", "Nebraskans", "The Rattlesnake Boys", "Red Stockings", "Antelopes" or "Goldenrods" in their early years.
After completing the previous season without a head coach, Nebraska appointed Omaha attorney J. S. Williams to the position, but he did not finish the year.
Nebraska entered conference play for the first time this year, as the University joined with the University of Iowa, the University of Kansas, and the University of Missouri to form the new Western Inter-State University Football Association prior to the start of the 1892 season.
This was Nebraska's first game against another major university program, and the Bugeaters secured the season-opening victory with just a single touchdown produced as a result of a fumble recovery. Both the fumble recovery and the winning touchdown were accomplished by African-American med student George Flippin, Nebraska's first black player and only the fifth black athlete to play at a major predominantly white college nationwide.
This was the first game in which Nebraska appeared in what would later become the University's permanent official colors, scarlet and cream.
Historical sources disagree on the status of the team's head coach for this game. Some show that J. S. Williams left the post after this game, while others show a different coach recorded only as Mr. Baldwin was expected to fulfill that role but did not follow through, and therefore that Williams did not arrive until after this game before subsequently leaving after the second game of the season.
Although Nebraska had played an out-of-state team for the first time in 1891, this was the first time Nebraska actually had played an out-of-state game, traveling to Colorado to face the Denver Athletic Club squad.
The Bugeaters were entirely overmatched by the professional-grade Denver AC team, although Nebraska did manage a single touchdown to avoid a shutout loss.
This game was to have been Nebraska's first ever conference game, however the University of Missouri squad refused to take the field, protesting the presence of African American George Flippin on the Bugeater squad. As the Tigers refused to play, the game was ruled as a forfeit and the score officially recorded as 1-0. This unfortunate event resulted in the new conference establishing a rule that prevented member teams from refusing to play scheduled matches.
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