Notre Dame's visit to Nebraska in 1925 was a landmark game for the Huskers for several reasons. The Nebraska win evened up the eleven game series between the two schools, and it also marked the end to the rivalry for many years.
The Nebraska defense stood tall for the rest of the game. At the final gun, the Huskers had upset Notre Dame 17-0 claiming just their 4th win of the season, but gaining their fifth win over Notre Dame.
The defeat was bitter for Notre Dame, and as a result, the events that followed the game burned even deeper. Notre Dame officials claimed they were peppered with an ongoing assault of anti-Catholic taunts from the Nebraska faithful. Taunts that they said had gone too far. Knute Rockne himself bristled at the comments made in various newspaper accounts of the contests over the past few years and took it upon himself to write scathing letters to the paper's editors.
In the face of the ongoing friction and the decreasing payouts that Notre Dame was receiving for their trips to Lincoln, the Notre Dame athletic board made the recommendation that Nebraska be dropped from the 1926 Notre Dame schedule. Rockne considered that action to be too harsh. Although the gate receipts were declining over the years, he still needed those funds to pay for his athletic department. Rockne argued vehemently that the Huskers remain on the schedule. Plus Rockne still had a score to settle after losing the 1925 match. In the end, however, Vice President Finigan canceled the 1926 Nebraska game and ended any negotiations for further contests.
Rockne tried several times in the years following to restore the trips to Nebraska but each effort failed. It would be another twenty-two years before Nebraska and Notre Dame would meet again.
