1912 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1912 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
Nebraska state champion Missouri Valley co-champion
Conference	Big Eight Conference
1912 record	7–1 (2–0 MVIAA)
Head coach	Ewald O. Stiehm (2nd year)
Home stadium	Nebraska Field
Seasons « 1911 1913 »

The 1912 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1912 college football season. The team was coached by Ewald O. Stiehm and played their home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Coach Stiehm returned for his second year at Nebraska following a not-entirely satisfying 5-1-2 first season, though it had resulted in a shared conference championship for 1911. The roster was smaller than recent past years, down to just 15 players.

Nebraska started up coach Stiehm's second season by warming up against Bellevue, easily cruising to victory with 81-0 on the board in the last game between Bellevue and the Cornhuskers. These teams only met three times, and Nebraska was never scored upon while staying perfect and racking up a series scoring history against Bellevue of 184-0.

In the second meeting of these teams, Kansas State managed to find the scoreboard against the Cornhuskers for the first time. The Aggies defense was successful in preventing big pass plays, however the 6 points put up by Kansas State did not accomplish much against the 30 scored by Nebraska through the running game. Nebraska stayed perfect in the series, 2-0, but lost several players due to injuries in the game.

Minnesota apparently feared this game, having fared less than impressively to start their season, and not believing tales of injured Nebraska players. Indeed, as the game progressed, it appeared that favor might shine upon the Cornhuskers at last. Nebraska's defense held firm when Minnesota approached as close as the Nebraska 3, and despite some Cornhusker errors up to that point, both teams were scoreless at the half. To start the second half, Nebraska penalties pushed the Cornhusker defense back to their own 4 yard line, where Minnesota punched in a touchdown. Nebraska promptly answered right back, with a 72-yard run among other plays, to draw up to the Minnesota 3 yard line. While attempting to pass for the touchdown, where the point after would have given Nebraska the go-ahead points, the ball was instead intercepted and returned for a Minnesota touchdown, sealing the bitter outcome of the game for Nebraska. The Cornhuskers fell further behind in the series, to 1-10-1.

The team from Adrian, traveling to Lincoln all the way from Michigan for the one and only time these teams would meet, suffered to bear the brunt of Nebraska's disappointment after losing yet again to Minnesota the week prior. The Cornhuskers made easy work of Adrian with a routine shutout victory that warranted only a single sentence in the university's annual.