1892 Nebraska Bugeaters football team

1892 Nebraska Bugeaters football
ConferenceWestern Interstate University Football Association
Record2–2–1 (1–1–1 WIUFA)
Head coach
  • J. S. Williams (1st season)
Home stadiumLincoln Park
Seasons
← 1891
1893 →
1892 Western Interstate University Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Kansas $ 3 0 0 7 1 0
Nebraska 1 1 1 2 2 1
Missouri 1 2 0 1 2 0
Iowa 0 2 1 3 2 1
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1892 Nebraska Bugeaters football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1892 college football season. The team had no head coach, though Omaha lawyer J. S. Williams led the team for one game, and played home games at Lincoln Park, in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the Western Interstate University Football Association.

This was Nebraska's first season as a member of an athletic conference, joining Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri in the newly formed WIUFA.[1][2]

Nebraska played without a permanent head coach for the third straight season, upsetting many program supporters. The university's newspaper opined "We are thoroughly disgusted with the cheap-John plan of amateur coaches". By the beginning of the 1893 season, Nebraska hired its first paid football coach.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference huskernews.com was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Nebraska Football In The 1890s" (PDF). LA84 Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved November 5, 2009.