1892 Nebraska Bugeaters football team
American college football team season
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 one home game each at M Street Park and Lincoln Park. 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.
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.
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Illinois
George Flippin, Nebraska's first black player and only the fifth black athlete at a predominantly white college, recovered a late fumble and later scored the game's only points to give the Bugeaters a 6–0 win.
Historical sources disagree on who coached Nebraska in this game. Some suggest J. S. Williams coached this game and quit after, while others show a different coach recorded only as "Mr. Baldwin" was expected to coach against Illinois but ultimately did not, and therefore Williams arrived sometime after this game.
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