1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1901 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1901 college football season . The team was coached by Walter C . " Bummy " Booth and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln , Nebraska . Before the season . Nebraska was coming off one of its best ever seasons with second - year head coach Booth , and hoping to continue the success . Game notes . Lincoln High . The Cornhuskers continued their unbeaten streak against Lincoln High School in this preseason exhibition game , extending their record to 4 - 0 over the younger team . Kirksville Osteopaths . Nebraska barely escaped from Kirksville with a win , managing only one touchdown against the medical students from Missouri . The Cornhuskers utilized their larger average size to control Kirksville , twice preventing preventing scores on two significant attempts . This was the only time these teams would meet . Doane . After a four - year break , Doane arrived in Lincoln to resume the oldest active series between the Cornhuskers and its opponents . It was a one - sided affair with three Nebraska touchdowns before the half and two more after , while the Cornhuskers notched their third straight shutout victory and extended the series lead over Doane to 7 - 2 . Minnesota . Nebraska traveled to Minneapolis in an attempt to avenge their sole loss from the previous season , and again riding high on a streak of shutout wins . It was not to be , however , as the dominant Golden Gophers completely shut down the Cornhuskers and sent them home with no points and lagging in the series 0 - 2 . Iowa State . Nebraska bounced right back from the thrashing in Minneapolis by completely shutting down Iowa State 17 - 0 . The Cyclones accumulated only 75 yards and three first downs on the day . The success of the Cornhuskers was significant when taking into account that almost half of the Nebraska linemen were sidelined with injuries from the previous game . Nebraska improved to 4 - 2 over Iowa State . Wisconsin . Nebraska met the Wisconsin Badgers for the first time , traveling to Milwaukee to face off with another northern squad . It was Nebraska ' s second painful defeat from a northern team of the year , as Wisconsin had little trouble putting the Cornhuskers away 18 - 0 . Still , coach Booth had praise for his players , stating that Nebraska played " 100 % better " than in the earlier defeat by Minnesota . Missouri . Nebraska met Missouri on neutral ground in Omaha , on the field where the Bugeaters of old thrice defeated the Omaha YMCA . Once again bouncing back and putting the shutout on the other side of the scoreboard , The Cornhuskers demolished Missouri in convincing fashion with 51 unanswered points to move ahead in the series 7 - 3 . Kansas . Kansas managed one touchdown in their annual contest with Nebraska , thanks to a lost Cornhusker fumble , but it was Nebraska ' s day to put points on the board as the Cornhuskers scored with relative ease all through the game . Nebraska pulled up to match Kansas and even the series at 5 - 5 . Haskell . Having defeated one team from Lawrence , Kansas two weeks prior , Nebraska welcomed a new team to Nebraska also hailing from Lawrence , the squad from the Haskell Institute . At that time , Haskell was an all - grades school but not yet a college , as they did not offer college level classes until many year later . Perhaps Nebraska was overconfident , or the Haskell team performed admirably , as the Cornhuskers found themselves behind 0 - 10 by halftime . After regrouping for the second half , Nebraska managed to shut Haskell down and score 18 points of their own to come up with the season - closing win . After the season . Coach Booth finished his second season with a 6 - 2 - 0 ( . 750 ) record , dropping his Nebraska career record to 12 - 3 - 1 ( . 781 ) , but raising Nebraska ' s overall program record to 53 - 28 - 5 ( . 645 ) .