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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football.It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MVIAA) [2] by its charter member schools: the University of Kansas, University of Missouri, [2] University of Nebraska, and Washington University in ...
The Big Seven Conference established a Coach of the Year award in 1948. The conference began awarding a Player of the Year award in 1967, and began giving separate offensive and defensive awards in 1971. The final awards were given after the 1995 season, after which all of the Big Eight schools entered the Big 12 Conference.
In 1996, the Big Eight merged with the Southwest to create the Big 12 Conference. Despite its similarity in name, the Big 12 was an entirely new conference and did not retain any of the Big Eight's history or records. [140] After a shutout loss at Arizona State in week two, Nebraska won ten straight games to make the first Big 12 Championship Game.
Oct 6, 2020 · The 1902 and 1903 seasons yielded undefeated Husker teams, for the first two of eleven such stellar accomplishments in team history. A team-record 34 game unbeaten streak, marshaled by Coach Ewald O. “Jumbo” Stiehm, began on Oct. 20, 1912, with a 41-0 win over Adrian College and ended Nov. 18, 1916, with a 7-3 loss to Kansas.
Husker Century: 1890 - 1972, The First 82 Years Documentary, Nebraska Educational Telecommunications; Article on First Football Team at the University of Nebraska, November, 1950, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Archives; Article of George Flippin, 1999, MS317, University of Nebraska - Lincoln Archives
Nebraska Cornhuskers School History. Seasons: 125 (1900 to 2024) Record (W-L-T): 887-402-38 Adjusted Record (W-L-T): 888-402-37 Conferences: Big Ten, Big 12, Big 8, Big 7, Big 6, MVIAA, Ind. Conf. Championships: 43. National Championships: 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995 and 1997. Bowl Record: 53 Bowls, 26-27, .491 W-L% (Major Bowls)
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A nice 45-24 win over a respectable Arizona State team closed out the non-conference schedule and set the stage for Big Eight play. The Big Eight was the organizational forerunner of the Big 12 that would come into existence four years later. The Cornhuskers were traditionally among the conference’s best. The historic rival was Oklahoma and ...
