Grand Island at Nebraska
|
1 |
2 |
Total |
| Grand Island |
|
|
0 |
| • Nebraska
|
|
|
72 |
|
Lincoln High at Nebraska
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Date: 1904-09-27
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Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
|
Grinnell at Nebraska
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Date: 1904-10-01
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Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Nebraska at Colorado
|
1 |
2 |
Total |
| Nebraska |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Colorado
|
6 |
0 |
6 |
|
Lincoln Medics at Nebraska
|
1 |
2 |
Total |
| Lincoln Medics |
|
|
0 |
| • Nebraska
|
|
|
29 |
-
Date: 1904-10-20
-
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
|
Knox at Nebraska
|
1 |
2 |
Total |
| Knox |
|
|
0 |
| • Nebraska
|
|
|
34 |
-
Date: 1904-10-22
-
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
|
Iowa at Nebraska
|
1 |
2 |
Total |
| Iowa |
|
|
6 |
| • Nebraska
|
|
|
17 |
-
Date: 1904-11-05
-
Location: Antelope Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
|
The 1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1904 college football season. The team was coached by Walter C. "Bummy" Booth and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The Cornhuskers were rolling, coming off of two dominating undefeated seasons, the first of which consisted entirely of shutout victories with no points scored against Nebraska. The nation was beginning to take serious notice of the program in Lincoln. The team was also continuing to grow, now having a roster of 30 players.
Coach Booth started out easy on Grand Island as the teams met for the second time, by not using the starters in the first half, but allowed them in afterwards. The result was a 72-0 shutout thrashing of the Grand Island squad, which was the second highest-margin of victory and total scoring in Nebraska history, behind only the 76-0 win over Hastings in 1898. Nebraska improved over Grand Island to 2-0.
It isn't recorded whether the Nebraska starters played in this game or not, or what role the short two-day turnaround since the Grand Island game may have played, or if the Lincoln High School team was just that good, but the Cornhuskers put up only 17 points in their 7th straight win over the local high schoolers in their annual exhibition game.
A wet field created messy conditions, but on this day it didn't seem to set back the Cornhuskers at all as they rolled up 46 points and shut out Grinnel for a 25th straight win and 6th straight shutout (counting exhibition games). Nebraska improved to 4-2 over Grinnell.
Nebraska's long streaks of success came to an abrupt end as Colorado handed Nebraska a shutout loss of their own, the first since Wisconsin blanked the Cornhuskers 18-0 in 1901. Nebraska had three opportunities inside of the Colorado 10-yard line, but failed to capitalize, and Colorado notched their first win in the series to get on the board at 1-3 behind Nebraska.
Creighton hosted Nebraska in Omaha for the first meeting of these teams, but it was back to the Nebraska of old as the Cornhuskers once again posted a shutout victory with seemingly little effort.
In a second exhibition game for the season, the Cornhuskers defeated the Lincoln Medics in another shutout win, though the victory did not count towards the season record. This was the only time these teams would meet.
The Cornhuskers had only one day off after the defeat of the Lincoln Medics when Knox arrived for the third contest between these teams. Coach Booth's personnel changes seemed effective in the end as the Cornhuskers put up yet another shutout victory and moved up to 3-0 against Knox.
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