1920 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Colorado Ag at Nebraska
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Date: 1920-10-09
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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
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2 |
7 |
0 |
7 |
16 |
| Nebraska |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
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Date: October 16
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Game attendance: 10,000
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South Dakota at Nebraska
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Date: 1920-10-23
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Nebraska vs. Rutgers
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| • Nebraska
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0 |
14 |
0 |
14 |
28 |
| Rutgers |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Nebraska at Penn State
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Total |
| Nebraska |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| • Penn State
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0 |
7 |
0 |
13 |
20 |
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Nebraska at Kansas
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1 |
2 |
Total |
| Nebraska |
|
|
20 |
| Kansas |
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|
20 |
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MAC at Nebraska
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1 |
2 |
Total |
| MAC |
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|
7 |
| • Nebraska
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|
|
35 |
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Date: 1920-11-20
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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Washington State at Nebraska
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Date: 1920-11-25
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Location: Nebraska Field • Lincoln, Nebraska
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The 1920 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1920 college football season. The team was coached by Henry Schulte and played their home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Looking for stability after a rough couple of years prior, Nebraska had some vacancies to fill with the departure of several seniors to graduation over the summer. The season was easier than the unusually demanding slate of 1919, but contests with powerhouses Notre Dame and Penn State, and against high-profile Rutgers in New York, loomed ahead.
The Cornhuskers tuned up on Washburn to open the season, only scoring 14 points in the process but still getting the season underway with a win. The margin of victory would probably have been greater if coach Schulte had not rested most of the starters while looking ahead at the Notre Dame game two weeks away. This was the last game between Nebraska and Washburn, the final record in the series all Nebraska wins at 4-0.
The first game between Nebraska and the Agricultural College of Colorado was not as easy a task as might have been expected, with starters again held back to stay healthy for Notre Dame in a week. The Aggies made quite a game of it, preventing the Cornhuskers from producing much on the scoreboard. Nebraska barely escaped with a 3-point win to go 1-0 in the series.
Notre Dame arrived in Lincoln for the sixth meeting of these teams, with the series tied at 2-2-1. Knute Rockne's team that year included quarterback Joe Brandy and the legendary George Gipp (of "Win one for the Gipper" fame), and Nebraska clearly had their work cut out for them. While the Cornhuskers did not score first, they led by the end of the first quarter. Unfortunately, that was the end of Nebraska scoring, as Rockne modified his game plan to prevent Nebraska from scoring by controlling the time of possession with low-risk, low-gain plays that chewed up the clock while still managing to get ahead mainly due to the efforts of Gipp. Gipp at one point even defied Rockne's directives to play conservatively, and continued to try to score, managing in the process to score another touchdown and contribute 218 personal rushing yards to the team's net of only 174.
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