by Mike Babcock | Nov 1, 2017 | Football
Nebraska was 8-1-1 and ranked No. 10 by the Associated Press when it traveled to Oklahoma for its final regular-season game on the day after Thanksgiving in 1973. The Huskers might well have been 10-0. Their lone loss had come at Missouri because a mishandled punt...
by Mike Babcock | Oct 24, 2017 | Football
It was an echo of the not-too-distant past, you could say. Eleven seasons before, Bob Devaney’s first loss as Nebraska’s head coach had come against Missouri. The Tigers won in Lincoln, 16-7, Nebraska’s Homecoming game. Memorial Stadium’s...
by Mike Babcock | Oct 10, 2017 | Football
Pepper Rodgers, UCLA’s third-year coach, was always good for a quote. Early in the week before the Bruins’ 1973 opener, he reportedly said: “I’d rather be playing Alaska than Nebraska.” He said he got a call from Alaska, wanting to know...
by Mike Babcock | Oct 3, 2017 | Football
On the Tuesday before Nebraska’s season-opener against UCLA in 1973, Husker co-captains John Dutton and Daryl White lifted senior Bob Thornton, who put the horseshoe in place above the double doors that exited the tunnel from the varsity locker room beneath the...
by Mike Babcock | Sep 26, 2017 | Football
Boyd Epley figured he was in trouble. Tom Osborne, a Bob Devaney assistant, called Epley into his office. When Epley arrived, Husker assistant Clete Fischer was there, too. Epley was a student-athlete at Nebraska, or rather just a student at that point. He had been a...
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