1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1904 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1904 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 . The Cornhuskers were rolling , coming off of two dominating undefeated seasons , the first of which consisted entirely of shutout victories with no points scored against Nebraska . The nation was beginning to take serious notice of the program in Lincoln . The team was also continuing to grow , now having a roster of 30 players . Game notes . Grand Island . Coach Booth started out easy on Grand Island as the teams met for the second time , by not using the starters in the first half , but allowed them in afterwards . The result was a 72 - 0 shutout thrashing of the Grand Island squad , which was the second highest - margin of victory and total scoring in Nebraska history , behind only the 76 - 0 win over Hastings in 1898 . Nebraska improved over Grand Island to 2 - 0 . Lincoln High . It isn ' t recorded whether the Nebraska starters played in this game or not , or what role the short two - day turnaround since the Grand Island game may have played , or if the Lincoln High School team was just that good , but the Cornhuskers put up only 17 points in their 7th straight win over the local high schoolers in their annual exhibition game . Grinnell . A wet field created messy conditions , but on this day it didn ' t seem to set back the Cornhuskers at all as they rolled up 46 points and shut out Grinnel for a 25th straight win and 6th straight shutout ( counting exhibition games ) . Nebraska improved to 4 - 2 over Grinnell . Colorado . Nebraska ' s long streaks of success came to an abrupt end as Colorado handed Nebraska a shutout loss of their own , the first since Wisconsin blanked the Cornhuskers 18 - 0 in 1901 . Nebraska had three opportunities inside of the Colorado 10 - yard line , but failed to capitalize , and Colorado notched their first win in the series to get on the board at 1 - 3 behind Nebraska . Creighton . Creighton hosted Nebraska in Omaha for the first meeting of these teams , but it was back to the Nebraska of old as the Cornhuskers once again posted a shutout victory with seemingly little effort . Lincoln Medics . In a second exhibition game for the season , the Cornhuskers defeated the Lincoln Medics in another shutout win , though the victory did not count towards the season record . This was the only time these teams would meet . Knox . The Cornhuskers had only one day off after the defeat of the Lincoln Medics when Knox arrived for the third contest between these teams . Coach Booth ' s personnel changes seemed effective in the end as the Cornhuskers put up yet another shutout victory and moved up to 3 - 0 against Knox . Minnesota . After a one year break , the series with recent rival Minnesota resumed in Minneapolis . The Gophers scored first , but Nebraska tied the game shortly afterwards , which was the first time that any team had scored against Minnesota during the entire season to date and back into 1903 , ending their shutout streak at 12 straight . Despite the rare points put up on the Gophers , Minnesota came up with more to defeat the Cornhuskers and advance their lead in the series to 3 - 1 . Iowa . Iowa fought a good game and scored a late touchdown to avoid the shutout , but the 17 points assembled by the Cornhuskers sent the Hawkeyes home with a loss and lagging in the series 4 - 6 - 2 . Haskell . In the 4th meeting of these teams , as they played outside of Lincoln for the first time , Haskell unexpectedly upended the Cornhuskers for the first time . Nebraska ' s points came only as the result of a recovered Haskell fumble in the end zone . Having now dropped three games on the season , Nebraska headed home in defeat but still owning the series edge 3 - 1 . Bellevue . Bellevue suffered the brunt of Nebraska ' s wrath following the previous week ' s loss to Haskell , as the Cornhuskers punched out 51 unanswered points despite having numerous starters sidelined with injuries . Nebraska ' s record over Bellevue improved to 2 - 0 , both shutout wins . This win was Nebraska ' s third against significant in - state competition for the season , and with a win against the Lincoln Medics and an exhibition win against Lincoln High , the Cornhuskers recorded their fifth state championship . Illinois . For the second year in a row , the Cornhuskers faced Illinois to end the season , and once again Nebraska came away with a win , though not in as convincing fashion as may have been desired . The scoring was back and forth , with Illinois initially in the lead and later coming back within a point before the Cornhuskers put the game away . After the season . After the record - setting 1902 and 1903 seasons , 1904 was relatively disappointing in its 7 - 3 finish . Nebraska ' s record game - winning streak ( counting exhibition games ) was capped at 27 this year . Coach Booth ' s overall career record at Nebraska fell to 38 - 6 - 1 ( . 856 ) , while the program ' s overall record fell very slightly to 79 - 31 - 5 ( . 709 ) .