Conference Big Eight Conference Head coach Fred Dawson (2nd year) | 1922 record 7–1 (5–0 MVIAA) Home stadium Nebraska Field | |
The 1922 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1922 college football season. The team was coached by Fred Dawson and played their home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Before the season
Now permitted three weeks of pre-season practice, the league champion Cornhuskers prepared under second-year coach Dawson to attempt to repeat as champs. Plans were in motion to build a new playing field and stadium for Nebraska, and this would be the final season of games played on Nebraska Field. Longtime trainer Jack Best, who had been with the program since its very beginning in 1890 through all of the coaching turnovers, was in declining health but came back for the season to help ready his beloved Cornhuskers.
After the season
Coach Dawson's second year record was a success, matching his first with just a single defeat on the record. His overall career record with the Cornhuskers advanced to 14-2-0 (.875), the program's overall record improved to 188-62-15 (.738), and the program's conference record improved to 32-3-2 (.892).
The season ended in triumph with the emotional Thanksgiving Day win over Notre Dame in Lincoln, but sorrow followed not long after when Jack Best, the only trainer the program had ever known, died less than two months after watching the epic defeat of the Fighting Irish in Nebraska Field's grand finale.