1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1900 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1900 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 . Beginning its 11th year , Nebraska was starting out with a new head coach for the 9th time after replacing A . Edwin Branch at the end of a 1 - 7 - 1 season . Also , the team had officially adopted its new nickname " Cornhuskers " beginning this year , after the term was coined by Charles " Cy " Sherman in one of his pieces written for the Nebraska State Journal during the 1899 season . Game notes . Lincoln High . The Cornhuskers got their first scrimmage preseason tuneup under new coach Booth with another exhibition game against Lincoln High School , a 22 - 0 shutout to extend their record over the high schoolers to 3 - 0 . Alumni . For the first time , the Cornhuskers went head to head against a team made up of former Cornhuskers , in this second exhibition game of the season . Apparently the graduates still had what it takes , as the game ended in a 0 - 0 draw . Iowa State . Coach Booth ' s first official game of his career at Nebraska was a refreshing change from the disastrous previous season , as the Cornhuskers had little difficulty putting up 30 - 0 shutout of the Cyclones in Lincoln . Counting the exhibition games , this was the third game in a row where the Nebraska defense held the other team to zero points , and Nebraska pulled into the series lead , 3 - 2 . Drake . Heavy winds interfered with both teams as they attempted to get on the scoreboard , and the day ended with a single touchdown and late safety by Nebraska being the only scores . The shutout streak continued , and Drake fell behind Nebraska in the series , 1 - 2 . KC Medics . The Kansas City Medics put up a fight as Nebraska faced them in Kansas City for the second year in a row , and despite the best efforts of both teams , the defensive units carried the day and sent both teams off the field scoreless in a 0 - 0 tie . This was the last times these teams met , with the KC Medics owning the hard - fought series with Nebraska 2 - 1 - 2 . Tarkio . Just two days after the battle in Kansas City , the Cornhuskers met Tarkio on the field for the third and final time , but on Tarkio ' s home field for the first time . Nebraska ' s first and only score was disputed by Tarkio players and fans , but the score was upheld by the officials . Nebraska failed to capitalize on a later opportunity to put up undisputed points , and the official score remained 5 - 0 for the rest of the game . The final outcome was disputed strongly enough in Tarkio that the home town paper reported the next day that the score had been a 0 - 0 tie . Missouri . Nebraska ' s unbeaten and unscored upon roll continued with a strong effort against Missouri in Columbia . One Cornhusker score in each half summed the points of the game , which featured much punting and changes of possession . Nebraska improved to 6 - 3 over Missouri . Grinnell . The day belonged entirely to the Cornhuskers as they rolled to an easy shutout victory over Grinnell in Lincoln . The visitors ' best shot at avoiding the shutout fell short with a missed 25 - yard field goal attempt . This evened the Grinnell - Nebraska series at 2 - 2 . Kansas . Nebraska closed out its 9th straight shutout game , counting the exhibition games , against Kansas in Lawrence . No opponents had scored on the Cornhuskers even once during the entire season to date , and Nebraska ' s series record deficit with Kansas to 4 - 5 . Minnesota . Nebraska ' s unbeaten run came to an end as the Cornhuskers hosted Minnesota for the first game of what would become a long and storied rivalry in later years . The Gophers were on average larger and taller than the Cornhuskers , posing a formidable challenge . Despite the loss , Nebraska still managed , through halftime adjustments , to outscore Minnesota in the second quarter , and those 12 points were more than any other opponent had put up against Minnesota in any other game of their season . After the season . Coach Booth ' s first season was a remarkable one - year turnaround from the disappointment of 1899 . His first year record of 6 - 1 - 1 ( . 813 ) improved Nebraska ' s overall program record to 47 - 26 - 5 ( . 635 ) .