1915 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Drake at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
Total |
| Drake |
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13 |
| • Nebraska
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48 |
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Kansas State at Nebraska
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Date: 1915-10-09
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Washburn at Nebraska
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Date: 1915-10-16
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Notre Dame at Nebraska
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Date: 1915-10-23
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Nebraska at Iowa State
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Date: 1915-10-30
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Location: Clyde Williams Field • Ames, Iowa
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Nebraska Wesleyan at Nebraska
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Date: 1915-11-06
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Nebraska at Kansas
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1 |
2 |
Total |
| • Nebraska
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33 |
| Kansas |
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0 |
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Iowa at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
Total |
| Iowa |
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7 |
| • Nebraska
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|
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52 |
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Date: 1915-11-20
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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The 1915 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1915 college football season. The team was coached by Ewald O. Stiehm and played their home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Coach Stiehm was already established as the winningest football coach in Nebraska history when he returned for his fifth year, having led the Cornhuskers to conference titles in every year of his tenure to date, and riding a record five straight conference titles overall. Nebraska was justifiably feared by every program in the nation, and this year the legendary Notre Dame football program would finally join in the fight with Nebraska on the field. With ten returning starters, the Cornhuskers appeared to be unstoppable.
Fourteen years had passed since Drake last appeared in Lincoln, back when the Cornhuskers hosted their opponents at the old Antelope Field, and the Bulldogs made their first appearance on Nebraska Field apparently without being intimidated, as they rather surprised the Cornhuskers by managing two touchdowns during the course of the game. However, any moral victory Drake obtained by scoring on Nebraska did not affect the final outcome brought by the Cornhuskers posting 48 points of their own. Nebraska improved to 4-1 all time against the Bulldogs
University records show that Nebraska hosted Kansas State on this date and defeated the Aggies yet again with a shutout victory of 31-0. However, the University's 1916 yearbook, which reviews the football season of 1915, does not mention this game. The yearbook's narrative instead transitions from the Drake game directly into a short sentence regarding the Washburn game, which followed this one. Kansas State's defeat left them still winless against Nebraska, 0-5.
An early season tuneup game against Washburn was easily handled by the Cornhuskers, who put up yet another shutout win and improved over Washburn to 3-0.
Written accounts of this game, the first ever meeting between Nebraska and Notre Dame, compare it favorably against the 7-0 Nebraska victory over Minnesota in 1913, and the 6-6 tie against Michigan in 1911. Notre Dame played effectively and created a worthy struggle for the Cornhuskers, who managed to come back from a 13-7 halftime deficit and win by one point. Since Minnesota suspiciously disappeared from Nebraska's annual schedule after their 1913 defeat, it was clear that Notre Dame would be more than worthy as the program's new annual marquee contest.
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