1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1906 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1906 college football season . The team was coached by Amos Foster and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln , Nebraska . Before the season . New coach Foster arrived to replace previous coach Walter C . Booth , after compiling an 11 - 4 record in two years coaching for the University of Cincinnati . New rules going into effect this year significantly changed the way the game was played , including an increase in the distance required to get a first down to ten yards , and also that an incomplete pass would be considered a turnover . Nebraska ' s existing schemes were not built around these new rules , and bringing in a new coach also unsettled affairs somewhat going into the season . Game notes . Hastings . Nebraska opened the season under new coach Foster with a solid shutout performance against Hastings College in the first meeting of these teams . South Dakota . South Dakota seemed to have figured out how to shut down Nebraska ' s offense , forcing the Cornhuskers to win with field goals instead of touchdowns . The low - scoring affair was Nebraska ' s third win in four games against the Coyotes . Drake . For the second week in a row , as the offense struggled , the Nebraska defense came through and kept the other team off the board so that Nebraska ' s single touchdown was enough to get the win . It had been five years since these teams last met , and Nebraska extended the series lead to 3 - 1 . Iowa State . Nebraska ' s home field winning streak of 38 straight games ( including exhibition games ) dating back to the beginning of the 1901 season was broken when Iowa State took advantage of the Cornhuskers ' struggling offensive output . A late safety prevented Nebraska from being shut out , and Iowa State reduced their series deficit to 3 - 5 . Doane . Nebraska again defeated Doane in Lincoln , in a shutout win , to try to erase the memory of the previous week ' s home field loss . Nebraska ' s lead in the series was increasingly getting out of reach at 10 - 2 . Minnesota . Nebraska ' s frustration with rival Minnesota was continued as the Golden Gophers again shut out the Cornhuskers in Minneapolis for the second year in a row , which was also Nebraska ' s third loss to Minnesota over the past three years . The defensive fight kept the scoreboard empty until the second half , when Minnesota again broke through and extended their lead over Nebraska to 5 - 1 . Minnesota would go on to finish as Big Nine Co - Champion . Creighton . Nebraska bounced back from the demoralizing loss at Minnesota by putting away Creighton in Omaha , notching another shutout win . This was the final time these teams would meet , the record ending with all three wins in the Nebraska column . Nebraska finished with wins against all in - state teams for the third year in a row to claim another state championship . Kansas . After a three year break , Kansas and Nebraska met on the field again . The series afterward would continue uninterrupted for over one hundred years , and as of 2009 is scheduled to continue at least through 2015 and likely longer . Multiple Cornhusker mistakes cost Nebraska the game on this day , resulting in the second home field loss for the Cornhuskers this season . Nebraska ' s lead in the series slipped to just 7 - 6 . Chicago . Nebraska traveled to Chicago to meet the City ' s University squad for the first time . At that time , Chicago was a member of the vaunted Big Nine Conference . The conference reputation was apparently well - deserved , as the Cornhuskers struggled to make serious progress while Chicago rolled up 38 points and sent them home with their 4th loss of the season . Cincinnati . Coach Foster ' s former team , Cincinnati , traveled to Nebraska for the only time to date that these teams would meet . It was a positive end to a season of some disappointment for the Cornhuskers , as the Cincinnati team was sent back home to Ohio smarting from a 0 - 41 blanking . After the season . Coach Foster only made it through this one year before moving on . His previous coaching job was again offered to him , but he instead passed that post up and went to coach for Miami University in Ohio , where he compiled a 13 - 1 record in his two years there . Foster ' s one - year Nebraska record of 6 - 4 - 0 ( . 600 ) caused a slight drop in Nebraska ' s overall program record , which fell to 93 - 37 - 5 ( . 707 ) .