1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1909 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 . Nebraska ' s new home playing venue , Nebraska Field , was opened this year on the grounds of the campus , to use in place of Antelope Field at the ' M ' Street Park . Coach Cole entered his 3rd year at the helm of the program . Game notes . South Dakota . Nebraska broke in the new playing field by battling it out with visiting South Dakota . After falling behind in the 1st half 0 - 6 , the Cornhuskers were able to stop the Coyotes from scoring again , though only managed 6 points of their own to secure a tie . Nebraska still held a comfortable lead in the series , at 4 - 1 - 1 . Knox . Three years had passed since Knox went up against the Cornhuskers , but the outcome followed the pattern of the previous meetings in the series when Nebraska cruised to a relatively easy win . This was the last time Knox played Nebraska , and the series ended with Nebraska in command 5 - 0 . Minnesota . The first time these teams met , in 1900 , the game was held in Lincoln . Since then , the following seven games were Minnesota home games played in Minneapolis . Finally , for 1909 , the Cornhuskers had Minnesota heading south to Nebraska again , albeit to Omaha instead of Lincoln . Despite the change in venue , the outcome was an all - too familiar Cornhusker loss , as Minnesota padded their series lead to 7 - 1 - 1 . Iowa . Nebraska kept Iowa out of the end zone all day , but the Hawkeyes still managed two field goals to put the Cornhuskers behind 0 - 6 . Nebraska almost dropped the game when they lost a fumble inside the Iowa 5 , but the ball was recovered and run in for a touchdown , and the point after ended the scoring with a tie . Nebraska ' s series advantage was still relatively safe at 7 - 4 - 3 . Doane . Records indicate that Nebraska substituted many players in the course of this match , in order to obtain playing time for inexperienced players and build depth . Despite the heavy use of backups , the Cornhuskers still emerged with a shutout win , and improved their dominating series lead over Doane to 13 - 2 . Kansas . Nebraska committed several costly miscues , fumbling the ball and committing painful penalties . On the drive that killed the Cornhuskers ' hopes , two 15 - yard penalties eventually resulted in a Nebraska punt that Kansas returned for the game - winning score . Finally , Kansas had caught back up to Nebraska and evened the series at 8 - 8 . Denver . Nebraska scored on a lucky kickoff play , and rode those points to secure the win . It was a Denver kickoff where the returner signaled a fair catch , but then fumbled the ball instead of catching it . The Denver players , pulling up at the signal of the fair catch , were not prepared for another Nebraska player to scoop up the fumble , and the ball was then successfully run down the field for the touchdown . Nebraska moved up to 3 - 0 against Denver . Haskell . Nebraska was hoping to win at the conclusion of the season for the first time in coach Cole ' s tenure , but Haskell denied the attempt . An 80 - yard play produced Nebraska ' s only touchdown , while Haskell managed to block five Nebraska punts to repeatedly establish a favorable starting field position . Nebraska ' s record against Haskell fell to 4 - 2 . After the season . The season was shorter than in recent years past , having only eight games on the schedule , and was somewhat disappointing with only three wins recorded at the end of the year . Coach Cole ' s overall record after three years slipped to 18 - 7 - 3 ( . 696 ) , dropping the overall program record to 111 - 44 - 8 ( . 706 ) . Nebraska ' s Missouri Valley league 0 - 1 - 1 record for the season also dropped their overall league record to 3 - 2 - 1 ( . 583 ) .