1912 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1912 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1912 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 returned for his second year at Nebraska following a not - entirely satisfying 5 - 1 - 2 first season , though it had resulted in a shared conference championship for 1911 . The roster was smaller than recent past years , down to just 15 players . Game notes . Bellevue . Nebraska started up coach Stiehm ' s second season by warming up against Bellevue , easily cruising to victory with 81 - 0 on the board in the last game between Bellevue and the Cornhuskers . These teams only met three times , and Nebraska was never scored upon while staying perfect and racking up a series scoring history against Bellevue of 184 - 0 . Kansas State . In the second meeting of these teams , Kansas State managed to find the scoreboard against the Cornhuskers for the first time . The Aggies defense was successful in preventing big pass plays , however the 6 points put up by Kansas State did not accomplish much against the 30 scored by Nebraska through the running game . Nebraska stayed perfect in the series , 2 - 0 , but lost several players due to injuries in the game . Minnesota . Minnesota apparently feared this game , having fared less than impressively to start their season , and not believing tales of injured Nebraska players . Indeed , as the game progressed , it appeared that favor might shine upon the Cornhuskers at last . Nebraska ' s defense held firm when Minnesota approached as close as the Nebraska 3 , and despite some Cornhusker errors up to that point , both teams were scoreless at the half . To start the second half , Nebraska penalties pushed the Cornhusker defense back to their own 4 yard line , where Minnesota punched in a touchdown . Nebraska promptly answered right back , with a 72 - yard run among other plays , to draw up to the Minnesota 3 yard line . While attempting to pass for the touchdown , where the point after would have given Nebraska the go - ahead points , the ball was instead intercepted and returned for a Minnesota touchdown , sealing the bitter outcome of the game for Nebraska . The Cornhuskers fell further behind in the series , to 1 - 10 - 1 . Adrian . The team from Adrian , traveling to Lincoln all the way from Michigan for the one and only time these teams would meet , suffered to bear the brunt of Nebraska ' s disappointment after losing yet again to Minnesota the week prior . The Cornhuskers made easy work of Adrian with a routine shutout victory that warranted only a single sentence in the university ' s annual . Missouri . Missouri successfully fought off the Cornhuskers for quite some time , putting on a good game of defense with Nebraska . Finally , however , the Cornhuskers managed to put the ball over the goal line for a single touchdown , which was enough to carry the game . Nebraska ' s comfortable series lead was improved to 10 - 3 . Doane . Nebraska ' s oldest active series came to a close when Doane arrived in Lincoln for the last time . Severely overmatched for the past several years , shutout losses to the Cornhuskers were the normal outcome for the Doane squad . This year , however , Doane snapped a six - game shutout streak and put 6 points on the scoreboard while up against Nebraska reserves , but still lost 54 - 6 . And so ended the Nebraska - Doane series , which dated to Nebraska ' s first season and second - ever game in 1890 , with Nebraska firmly leading 16 - 2 . The victory over Doane kept Nebraska undefeated against in - state teams for the second consecutive year , good for their ninth state championship . Kansas . Although Kansas had not impressed during the course of the season , they brought the fight to Lincoln and scored first , leading the Cornhuskers 3 - 0 for a significant amount of time . It took a long , 70 - yard run for a touchdown to finally put Nebraska ahead after several miscues . A second touchdown finally put the game out of reach of the Jayhawks , and Nebraska edged further ahead in the series , to 11 - 8 . Oklahoma . Oklahoma arrived in Lincoln for the first - ever match between these teams , in what would eventually go on to be one of the most storied rivalries in college football . Nebraska was the larger team , but the smaller Sooners proved themselves with superior speed , scoring first and putting the Cornhuskers on their heels . After the initial scare , Nebraska ' s defense came together to slow down the Sooners , who couldn ' t stop Nebraska from scoring 13 points of their own , and the series was begun with a Nebraska victory . After the season . Suffering only the one loss to Minnesota , which was seemingly an annual event of frustration , Nebraska finished 7 - 1 - 0 ( . 875 ) and perfect in - conference with the victories over Kansas and Missouri . As a result , the Cornhuskers were awarded the sole conference championship , which was coach Stiehm ' s second , Nebraska ' s second in the Missouri Valley Conference , and the program ' s seventh conference title all - time . Coach Stiehm ' s career record improved to 12 - 2 - 2 ( . 813 ) , and the program ' s overall record improved to 130 - 47 - 10 ( . 722 ) , while the Cornhuskers improved their MVIAA conference record to 9 - 2 - 2 ( . 769 ) .