1891 Nebraska Old Gold Knights football team

1891 Nebraska Old Gold Knights football
Nebraska state champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–2
Head coach
Home stadiumLincoln Park
Seasons
← 1890
1892 →
1891 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Ohio Wesleyan     4 0 0
Kansas     7 0 1
Illinois     5 1 0
Missouri     3 1 0
Lake Forest     6 2 0
Washington University     4 1 1
Minnesota     3 1 1
Wisconsin     3 1 1
Cincinnati     4 2 1
Iowa     3 2 0
Doane     2 2 0
Iowa College     1 1 1
Miami (OH)     1 1 0
Nebraska     2 2 0
Northwestern     2 2 3
Michigan     4 5 0
Ohio State     2 3 0
Case     1 2 0
Buchtel     1 3 0
Washburn     1 5 0
Michigan State Normal     0 2 0

The 1891 Nebraska Old Gold Knights football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1891 college football season. The team had no head coach, but Theron Lyman led NU in preparation for its game against Iowa. The team played its single home game at Lincoln Park, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Nebraska fielded its second football team in 1891. Although the university did not provide an official head coach, Iowa College coach Theron Lyman assisted Nebraska in preparation for its November 26 game against Iowa, in order to increase the competitiveness of NU's young program against the veteran Hawkeyes. However, Lyman likely did not even attend his single game as "head coach".[1]

Nebraska's second victory over Doane gave the program a second straight unofficial Nebraska state championship. This was the final year Nebraska was known as the Old Gold Knights. They would later be referred to as the "Tree Planters", "Nebraskans", "The Rattlesnake Boys", "Red Stockings", and "Antelopes", but "Bugeaters" became the university's official nickname in 1892.

  1. ^ "Husker Press Box - 1891 Game Recaps". University of Nebraska-Lincoln Athletics Department. Retrieved November 5, 2009.[permanent dead link]