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From 1894 to 1900 Nebraska did not win another championship, although she was always represented by creditable teams which lost by nip and tuck battles. Following Crawford, Thomas, also of Michigan, Robinson of Brown, Yost of Lafayette, and Branch of Williams were employed as professional coaches, until the advent of "Bummy" Booth in 1900. From the beginning of his career as football coach until he left after the season of 1905, Nebraska had an unbroken string of championships of the Missouri Valley. In 1902 our opponents were held scoreless and we gained national recognition by defeating, for the first time, the strong Minnesota team. In 1903 Nebraska was again undefeated. In 1904 and 1905, though we were defeated by Western Conference schools, the Missouri Valley colleges succumbed to our attack.
Foster of Dartmouth succeeded Booth in 1906, and though the team played well, it lost to Kansas, Minnesota, and Chicago. "King" Cole of Michigan as the football mentor in 1907, won another Missouri Valley championship. In 1908 and 1909, we lost the championship to Kansas. However, in "King's" last year, 1910, we came to our own by going through the season with only a single defeat and that at the hands of Minnesota.
The preceding year the faculty representatives of the Missouri Valley Conference laid down the rule that coaches must henceforth be members of the faculty and elected for the entire year. This rule went into effect for the year 1911-12. Ewald O. Stiehm was our first all-year coach. He was the product of Wisconsin University, with several years of successful minor college coaching experience. His first football team, though falling a victim to Minnesota, made a clean sweep of the Missouri Valley and tied the University of Michigan in the last game of the season, after clearly outplaying its antagonist during the greater part of the game. In 1912 and 1913 the Cornhuskers won all games except that with Minnesota.
After a series of defeats at the hands of Minnesota since 1902, Nebraska triumphed at last in 1914, by a score of 7 to 0, on the home field in a most exciting contest. The
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