Two weeks prior to NU's game against the Omaha Balloon school, a training facility for Army personnel involved in the operation of dirigibles, team captain-elect Roscoe Rhodes was killed in action on October 25.

The field was so muddy for Nebraska's meeting with Kansas that the school's yearbook wrote that "the players were so completely smeared with slime that neither side could be distinguished from the other."

NU struggled mightily to move the ball on a sloppy Nebraska Field, punting eighteen times and gaining just nine net yards of offense.

Due to wartime travel restrictions and the influenza outbreak of 1918, Nebraska's scheduled games with Syracuse, Missouri, and West Virginia were canceled.

The Cornhuskers resumed their annual series with Missouri in 1919, and played Syracuse the following season as well; Nebraska did not face West Virginia until the 1994 Kickoff Classic.