1915 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1915 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1915 college football season . The team was coached by Ewald O . Stiehm and played their home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln , Nebraska . Before the season . Coach Stiehm was already established as the winningest football coach in Nebraska history when he returned for his fifth year , having led the Cornhuskers to conference titles in every year of his tenure to date , and riding a record five straight conference titles overall . Nebraska was justifiably feared by every program in the nation , and this year the legendary Notre Dame football program would finally join in the fight with Nebraska on the field . With ten returning starters , the Cornhuskers appeared to be unstoppable . Game notes . Drake . Fourteen years had passed since Drake last appeared in Lincoln , back when the Cornhuskers hosted their opponents at the old Antelope Field , and the Bulldogs made their first appearance on Nebraska Field apparently without being intimidated , as they rather surprised the Cornhuskers by managing two touchdowns during the course of the game . However , any moral victory Drake obtained by scoring on Nebraska did not affect the final outcome brought by the Cornhuskers posting 48 points of their own . Nebraska improved to 4 - 1 all time against the Bulldogs Kansas State . University records show that Nebraska hosted Kansas State on this date and defeated the Aggies yet again with a shutout victory of 31 - 0 . However , the University ' s 1916 yearbook , which reviews the football season of 1915 , does not mention this game . The yearbook ' s narrative instead transitions from the Drake game directly into a short sentence regarding the Washburn game , which followed this one . Kansas State ' s defeat left them still winless against Nebraska , 0 - 5 . Washburn . An early season tuneup game against Washburn was easily handled by the Cornhuskers , who put up yet another shutout win and improved over Washburn to 3 - 0 . Notre Dame . Written accounts of this game , the first ever meeting between Nebraska and Notre Dame , compare it favorably against the 7 - 0 Nebraska victory over Minnesota in 1913 , and the 6 - 6 tie against Michigan in 1911 . Notre Dame played effectively and created a worthy struggle for the Cornhuskers , who managed to come back from a 13 - 7 halftime deficit and win by one point . Since Minnesota suspiciously disappeared from Nebraska ' s annual schedule after their 1913 defeat , it was clear that Notre Dame would be more than worthy as the program ' s new annual marquee contest . Iowa State . Nebraska traveled to Ames for their first appearance on Iowa State ' s new Clyde Williams Field , and made relatively easy work of the Cyclones on their own turf , recording another shutout victory on the year . To Iowa State ' s credit , however , the 21 Cornhusker points would be the lowest points scored against any opponent in 1915 except for Notre Dame . Iowa State ' s chances to catch up to Nebraska in the series were beginning to look bleak , as the Cornhuskers held a dominant lead at 11 - 3 - 1 . Nebraska Wesleyan . As it happened for the Kansas State game , records show the Cornhusker win over Nebraska Wesleyan , while the annual yearbook fails to mention the game . The 30 - 0 defeat kept NWU winless all time against Nebraska in five tries . Kansas . It was another in what was becoming a string of disappointments for the Jayhawks , as Nebraska scored more touchdowns than Kansas was able to muster in first downs . The Cornhuskers continued pulling away from the Jayhawks in the series , 14 - 8 . Iowa . It was not the Iowa of previous years that came into Lincoln this time , as the Cornhuskers easily dispatched the Hawkeyes 52 - 7 in front of the homecoming crowd , which was the most points ever scored against Iowa by Nebraska to date . The Cornhuskers pulled farther ahead of Iowa in the series , 10 - 4 - 3 . After the season . Coach Stiehm concluded yet another conference championship season , going 5 - 0 for conference titles , handing the Cornhuskers an amazing streak of six straight Missouri Valley titles , an accomplishment never matched by any other conference foe , nor ever again repeated by Nebraska . Coach Stiehm departed the program during the offseason , but in his time with Nebraska he secured a career record of 35 - 2 - 3 ( . 913 ) , the best career record of all Nebraska head coaches before and since . The program ' s overall record improved for the sixth straight year , to 153 - 47 - 11 ( . 751 ) , while their conference record also improved again , to 19 - 2 - 2 ( . 870 ) .