1911 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1911 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
MVC co-champion
Nebraska state champion
ConferenceMissouri Valley Conference
Record5–1–2 (2–0–1 MVC)
Head coach
Home stadiumNebraska Field
Seasons
← 1910
1912 →
1911 Missouri Valley Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Iowa State + 2 0 1 6 1 1
Nebraska + 2 0 1 5 1 2
Kansas 1 1 1 4 2 2
Washington University 0 0 2 4 2 2
Missouri 0 2 2 2 4 2
Drake 0 2 1 5 2 1
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 1911 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska as a member of Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1911 college football season. The team was coached by first-year head coach Ewald O. Stiehm and played its home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska.[1]

Following the retirement of W.C. Cole in 1910, Nebraska hired Stiehm as his replacement.[2] Nicknamed "Jumbo" because of his large feet, Stiehm was a regimented, fiery man who was prone to frequent tirades on the sidelines.[3] Despite this, his first Cornhuskers team, with nine returning starters from 1910, split the MVC championship with Iowa State.

  1. ^ "1909 Nebraska Cornhuskers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
  2. ^ "Jumbo Stiehm selected as Nebraska coach". Lincoln Journal Star. February 21, 1911.
  3. ^ Mike Babcock. "How It Was: The first great coach". Retrieved June 1, 2020.