1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1905 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1905 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 . Coach Booth , after the extremely successful 1902 and 1903 seasons , sought to return to dominance after the relatively disappointing 7 - 3 1904 season . Last year ' s roster of 30 was reduced somewhat , with 26 players appearing in 1905 . Game notes . Grand Island . The Cornhuskers opened the season without Coach Booth on the sidelines , as he was recovering from illness . It seemed to matter little , as Nebraska rolled to their third win in three games against Grand Island in the last time these teams would meet . Lincoln High . Ending another series , the University team defeated the Lincoln High School team for the 8th time in eight games , in this final exhibition game between the teams . South Dakota . South Dakota ' s only points came on a fumble lost by Nebraska that the Coyotes returned the length of the field . Except for that moment of excitement , the day belonged to the Cornhuskers , who pulled ahead of South Dakota 2 - 1 in the series . Knox . Knox didn ' t put up much fight , but neither did Nebraska expend much effort in what was described as another early season walk through warm up game . Nebraska ' s record over Knox advanced to 4 - 0 . Michigan . Nebraska met Michigan for the first time in Ann Arbor , in the last season that the Wolverines played at Regents Field . This game had additional meanings , as it was Michigan who had been named Western Champion in 1902 over Nebraska , despite the Cornhuskers finishing the season with a perfect record of shutout victories . In addition , former Cornhusker head coach Fielding H . Yost was at the helm of the Michigan team . This was the first time Nebraska had faced one of its own former head coaches . Any hopes held by the Cornhuskers to settle its affairs against Michigan were silenced , as both teams fought to a draw in the first half only for Michigan to break through and run up 31 unanswered points against the Cornhuskers in the second half . Creighton . Coach Booth allowed the Cornhuskers to absolutely smash Creighton in the week after the crushing loss to Michigan . Not holding back at all , Nebraska used trick plays and kept the pressure on throughout the entire game , scoring half again as much in the second half as the first . This game set new records for total points scored and largest margin of victory , displacing the 76 - 0 downing of Hastings in 1898 , as the Cornhuskers moved up to 2 - 0 against Creighton . Iowa State . After a three - year break , Nebraska renewed the series with Iowa State when the Cyclones traveled to Lincoln . The heavy rains kept scoring to a minimum , certainly there were less points scored by Nebraska than the previous week , but Iowa State scored no points at all and fell farther behind in the series , 2 - 5 . Colorado . The 4 , 000 + crowd counted at this game set a record for a non - Thanksgiving Day game crowd , as the Cornhuskers battled a determined Colorado team to emerge with the shutout win and move up in the series to 4 - 1 . Minnesota . Nebraska again traveled to Minneapolis to challenge the superiority of the Golden Gophers , who seemed to generally have Nebraska ' s number . The same was true today , as the Minnesota squad blanked the visiting Cornhuskers and improved their series lead over Nebraska to 4 - 1 . Doane . Doane arrived in Lincoln after a two year break in facing the Cornhuskers , but it was more of the same as Doane fell 5 - 43 . Nebraska had run out ahead by 37 before the half , and though Doane figured out the Cornhuskers enough to play them to a second half draw , those early points were of course far too much to overcome . To Doane ' s credit , it was the first time in five games against Nebraska that they avoided the shutout . Nebraska ' s daunting record over Doane was stretched to 9 - 2 . As Nebraska finished with wins against all in - state competition for the season , they recorded their second consecutive and sixth overall state championship . Illinois . Nebraska again closed the season with a win against Illinois . The Fighting Illini of 1905 were demoralized at this point , having been shut out in three of the previous four games , and did not put up a serious fight . Still winless in the series , Illinois was now down 0 - 4 against Nebraska . After the season . Coach Booth finished the year at 8 - 2 , an improvement over 1904 ' s final tally , and compiled a Nebraska career record of 46 - 8 - 1 ( . 845 ) , which was a slight drop in percentage from the previous year , but which improved the program ' s overall record to 87 - 33 - 5 ( . 716 ) . Coach Booth departed the program at the conclusion of the 1905 season , and does not appear to have continued his coaching career elsewhere . After the high turnover of the early years , Nebraska had enjoyed success with a stable coaching staff over the past six years , but once again was in search of a head coach to lead the football team .