1908 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team The 1908 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1908 college football season . The team was coached by William C . " King " Cole and played their home games at Antelope Field in Lincoln , Nebraska . Before the season . Coach Cole brought his 8 - 2 record from 1907 with him into his second year at Nebraska . Plans were beginning to materialize to replace Antelope Field , and this season would feature a visit from legend - in - the - making Jim Thorpe . Game notes . Peru State . Nebraska again opened the season against Peru State , and again made an easy win out of it , advancing their all - time record against the Peru State teachers to 2 - 0 . Doane . Nebraska committed numerous errors which prevented them from scoring as often as they could have , but it was just as well for Doane so that they didn ' t have an even more painful blanking than the 0 - 43 outcome . Doane fell further in the series to 2 - 12 . Grinnell . Long suffering from a lengthening string of Nebraska victories , Grinnell got the attention of the Cornhuskers by scoring first in this game . Nebraska responded by keeping them off the board for the rest of the game while attaching four of their own touchdowns to advance to 6 - 2 in the series . Minnesota . Nebraska once again traveled north to Minneapolis on another mission to attempt to take down the mighty Golden Gophers . Both teams made it a defensive game , with both sides making impressive goal line stands , and when time ran out there were still no points on the board . Holding Minnesota to a scoreless tie was still a big improvement to break the 4 - game win streak held by Minnesota in the series , though it didn ' t contribute a great deal towards Nebraska making up their 1 - 6 - 1 series deficit . Haskell . Nebraska didn ' t put up such a large score , but held Haskell to zero to notch up a 3rd shutout in the last four games , moving to 4 - 1 against the Indians . Iowa . After a three - year break , Nebraska and Iowa resumed their series . Any thoughts of an easy Cornhusker victory to start the season ' s conference slate were quickly replaced by the reality of a struggle in which Nebraska barely escaped with a 3 - point win , moving to a 7 - 4 - 2 advantage over the Hawkeyes all time . Iowa State . For the second week in a row , the Cornhuskers found themselves fighting for the win against a team from Iowa . The Cyclones fought to a 17 - 17 tie in the 2nd half , but Nebraska found a way to score one more time to increase their series lead to 7 - 3 . Kansas . Nebraska players accused Kansas of spying on the team practices or otherwise improperly obtaining the signals called by the Cornhuskers , but whether that was true or Kansas was just that good , Nebraska fell at home 5 - 20 in a loss that handed the Jayhawks the conference championship and narrowed the Nebraska series edge to 8 - 7 . The home defeat snapped an 11 - game home field winning streak , and was the first since a 6 - 8 loss also delivered by Kansas in 1906 . Wabash . This was the only time Wabash met Nebraska to settle affairs on the football field , and the muddy , snowy day was all Nebraska . Three Wabash errors each eventually resulted in Cornhusker touchdowns . Carlisle . For the second week in a row , Nebraska met a team that it would only see one time in program history . This game was arranged to bring the heralded Jim Thorpe up against the Cornhuskers . Thorpe ' s Carlisle team certainly did not disappoint those who came to see impressive football being played . Although Thorpe reportedly struggled at times during the game , Carlisle still easily downed Nebraska in Lincoln 37 - 6 . After the season . Coach Cole finished his second year with a Nebraska career total of 15 - 4 - 1 ( . 775 ) , and the Cornhuskers program record again improved slightly to 108 - 41 - 6 ( . 716 ) . Nebraska finished 2nd in the Missouri Valley Conference , and had an abbreviated two - year conference record of 3 - 1 ( . 750 ) . This was the last year Nebraska played home games at Antelope Field . Next season , the new Nebraska Field was built on campus , and was located adjacent to where Memorial Stadium sits today . Antelope Field was sent into the history books with an all - time Cornhusker football record of 64 - 8 - 2 ( . 878 ) , including exhibition games .