1910 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1910 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1910 college football season . The team was coached by William C . " King " Cole and played their home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln , Nebraska . Before the season . Coach Cole may have come into his 4th year with a bit of a chip on his shoulder . His first and second season teams had each contributed to improving Nebraska ' s overall program winning percentage , but the previous year ' s 3 - 3 - 2 final tally had been a setback . Game notes . Peru State . Nebraska used this final meeting with Peru State as a tuneup practice game , playing backups and determining the starting lineup for the season . The Cornhuskers closed out their series with Peru State with a perfect record of 3 - 0 . South Dakota . The Cornhuskers won yet another in an increasingly one - sided series with the Coyotes , improving to 5 - 1 - 1 against South Dakota . Minnesota . Nebraska ' s stretch of frustration continued , as once again the Golden Gophers soundly defeated the Cornhuskers in Minneapolis , leaving Nebraska winless in the series since 1902 . Minnesota ' s series lead increased to 8 - 1 - 1 . Denver . For the first time in the series , Denver traveled to Lincoln to face the Cornhuskers at home , but this game would also be the last meeting between the squads . Coming off the Minnesota loss , the team came together to function as a unit and also successfully implemented some new plays . The Cornhuskers finished out the series with another win and stayed perfect over Denver at 4 - 0 . Doane . Nebraska did not have as easy a time putting away Doane as in other recent meetings of the past few years , but still kept their win streak against Doane alive with the 6 - 0 win , owning the series 14 - 2 . Kansas . For the second week in a row , Nebraska survived a hard fought and low scoring affair , escaping with a repeat 6 - 0 win . Nebraska secured at least a share of the conference title with the win , and took the lead in the series again , 9 - 8 . Iowa State . The Cornhuskers put up 24 unanswered points to secure their 4th straight shutout victory to close their abbreviated conference slate . The win secured Nebraska ' s position as sole conference champions , and moved Nebraska farther ahead in their series with Iowa State to 8 - 3 . Haskell . Nebraska absolutely annihilated Haskell in coach Cole ' s final game , completely exploding for a record setting 119 - 0 victory , a team scoring and margin of victory record that has stood for one hundred years . The Cornhuskers piled up an astonishing 1 , 150 yards of offense , while Haskell managed only 67 yards in their 17 total plays in the game . Nebraska improved over Haskell all - time to 5 - 2 . After the season . Coach Cole went out in style with the record - setting 119 - 0 blasting delivered to Haskell at Nebraska Field . His four - year record stood at 25 - 8 - 3 ( . 736 ) , and his teams improved the program ' s overall record to 118 - 45 - 8 ( . 713 ) . Coach Cole ' s conference record ended at 5 - 2 - 1 ( . 688 ) , winning a share of the 1907 conference title and winning the 1910 title in his final year outright .