1917 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Nebraska Wesleyan at Nebraska
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Iowa at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
Total |
| Iowa |
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0 |
| • Nebraska
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47 |
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Date: 1917-10-13
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Notre Dame at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Notre Dame |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Nebraska
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0 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
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Date: 1917-10-20
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Missouri at Nebraska
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Date: 1917-11-10
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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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13 |
| Kansas |
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3 |
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Syracuse at Nebraska
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Date: 1917-11-29
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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The 1917 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1917 college football season. The team was coached by E. J. Stewart and played their home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Coach Stewart's second Cornhusker team was coming off of a down year that anywhere else would have been considered very successful. The two losses of 1916, although ending the four-season unbeaten streak, still did not prevent Nebraska from notching a seventh consecutive league title. Stewart greatly expanded his roster to 22 players, an increase of almost 30% from the 17 players on the squad in 1916. Coach Stewart set up this year's schedule as an ambitious test, as powerhouses Michigan, Notre Dame and Syracuse all had dates with the Cornhuskers on the slate.
The Cornhuskers opened the new season with a chip on their shoulder, and completely smashed Nebraska Wesleyan in a bit of revenge for being held to just 21 points in the previous year's shutout win over NWU. This was the fourth and final time Nebraska scored 100 or more points in the history of the program, the previous coming in 1911 in a 117-0 blanking of Kearney State. NWU remained winless against Nebraska, 0-7.
The Cornhuskers put up another shutout by blanking Iowa, continuing the strong start intended to wipe away the memory of last year's two losses, and improved over Iowa to 12-4-3.
Notre Dame returned to Lincoln with hopes of staying on top of the Cornhuskers, but ND assistant Knute Rockne had scouted the team in advance and reported back to ND head coach Jesse Harper that Nebraska was to be feared after the strong 147-0 combined scoring of their first two games. Notre Dame had started the season with a 55-0 shutout over Kalamazoo but was then held to a scoreless tie against Wisconsin before the date in Lincoln. It wasn't until the second quarter that the Cornhuskers managed to post the first points, and though the teams continued to fight severely, the defenses carried the rest of the day. Notre Dame's closest attempt reached the Nebraska 8 before an interception killed the drive. Among the Notre Dame players present was future College Football Hall of Fame inductee George Gipp (of "Win one for the Gipper" fame), who in this case was handed his first career loss at Notre Dame as Nebraska moved ahead in the series to 2-1.
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