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First Intercollegiate Football Game in Nebraska - 125 Years Ago Today


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The play-by-play wasn't pretty, as can be expected when one team is making its debut and another is playing its second game nearly three months removed from the season opener. Early in the first half, Doane kicked off from the wrong yard line. Both teams did plenty of rolling around in the mud, failing to gain yards with any regularity. Nebraska painstakingly built a 14-0 first-half lead — that's three four-point touchdowns and a two-point kick, as the game was then scored — then tacked on four more points in the second half after a Husker fell on a bungled Doane kick in the end zone to lock up an 18-0 victory. "The Doane team has no occasion to be discouraged over its defeat, for considering that no one in the school had ever seen a foot-ball game, and that it was thus almost purely theoretical, the game was a well contested one."

 

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