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1926 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1926 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
Conference Big Eight Conference
1926 record 6–2 (5–1 MVIAA)
Head coach Ernest Bearg (2nd year)
Home stadium Memorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1925
1927 →
1926 Missouri Valley football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Oklahoma A&M $ 3 – 0 – 1     3 – 4 – 1
Nebraska 5 – 1 – 0     6 – 2 – 0
Grinnell 3 – 1 – 1     6 – 1 – 1
Missouri 3 – 1 – 1     5 – 1 – 2
Oklahoma 3 – 2 – 1     5 – 2 – 1
Kansas State 2 – 2 – 0     5 – 3 – 0
Iowa State 3 – 3 – 1     4 – 3 – 1
Drake 1 – 4 – 0     2 – 6 – 0
Kansas 1 – 5 – 0     2 – 6 – 0
Washington (MO) 0 – 6 – 0     1 – 7 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
Drake at Nebraska
1 2 Total
Drake 0
• Nebraska 21
Missouri at Nebraska
1 2 Total
• Missouri 14
Nebraska 7
  • Date: October 9
  • Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
Nebraska at Washington University
1 2 Total
• Nebraska 20
Washington University 6
Nebraska at Kansas
1 2 Total
• Nebraska 20
Kansas 3
Iowa State at Nebraska
1 2 Total
Iowa State 6
• Nebraska 31
  • Date: October 30
  • Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
Kansas State at Nebraska
1 2 3 4 Total
Kansas State 0 0 0 0 0
• Nebraska 0 0 3 0 3
  • Date: November 13
  • Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
New York University at Nebraska
1 2 Total
New York University 7
• Nebraska 15
  • Date: November 20
  • Location: Memorial Stadium • Lincoln, Nebraska
Nebraska at Washington
1 2 Total
Nebraska 6
• Washington 10

The 1926 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1926 college football season. The team was coached by Ernest Bearg and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Coach Bearg started his second year with a substantially increased roster, up to 60 players from the 35 players on the 1925 roster. No specific game was recorded as the season's Homecoming game.

Nebraska opened the 1926 season by trouncing conference foe Drake in Lincoln, in a game where nearly every player on the large roster found playing time, as the Cornhuskers avenged the surprise loss handed to them by Drake in 1925. This was the last game played between Nebraska and Drake, closing out one of the oldest series in Nebraska football history, dating back to 1898, with Nebraska dominating the matchup 6-2 all-time.

Nebraska stumbled early in the season when Missouri came into Lincoln and shut down the Cornhuskers despite their quick jump to an early 7-0 lead. Those would be the last points scored in the game, as Missouri managed 14 in response. Nebraska produced respectable offensive output over the course of the game, but was unable to create any points for their efforts. Missouri's win helped them chip away at the series lead held by the Cornhuskers, moving them to 5-14-1.

This game amounted to a win for both teams. Nebraska scored the points to carry the outcome in their third conference game of the season, while the Washington Bears were pleased to have scored points at all against conference heavyweight Nebraska. Although the Washington Bears and Nebraska Cornhuskers had shared the same conference since 1907 (except for 1919-1920 when Nebraska was an independent), this was only the second game played between these programs. It was also the last, with a split final record of 1-1 after accounting for Nebraska's loss to the Bears back in 1918.

After a slow start where Nebraska was only able to come up with a single score in the first half, the Cornhuskers pulled away to notch another conference win for the year, and padded their series lead over Kansas to 22-9-2.

The Cornhuskers scored first early on in the opening minutes of the game, but a lost Nebraska fumble not long after made it look like a battle was forming up. Iowa State capitalized on the turnover for what would be their only score of the day, as the Cornhuskers eventually rolled up 31 points to secure their fourth win of the season. The Cyclones slid further behind in the series, to 4-16-1.


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