by Mike Babcock | Dec 19, 2017 | Football
Following Nebraska’s 27-24 victory against Texas Tech in the 1976 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, during a conversation with a member of the university’s Board of Regents, Tom Osborne was told it was a good thing the Huskers had won. The implication was had they...
by Mike Babcock | Dec 13, 2017 | Football
The week before the final regular-season game at Oklahoma in 1975, Nebraska’s players voted to decline an invitation to the Fiesta Bowl if it came to that. According to newspaper accounts, the vote was 4-1 against. It would come to that if the Huskers were to...
by Mike Babcock | Dec 6, 2017 | Football
Vince Ferragamo ranks 10th in career-passing yardage at Nebraska, even though he played only two seasons for the Huskers and threw fewer passes than anyone ahead of him on the list. “Vince was a very good passer,” Coach Tom Osborne has said. And so he was,...
by Mike Babcock | Nov 28, 2017 | Football
Dave Humm was a 5-star recruit long before star rankings were used in evaluation. Coach Bear Bryant enlisted Joe Namath to persuade Humm to accept Alabama’s scholarship offer, but Bob Devaney landed him with the help of a long-time friend, Marvin Sillman....
by Mike Babcock | Nov 21, 2017 | Football
A headline in the Omaha World-Herald indicated that 60 walk-ons would “bolster” Nebraska’s freshman team when it opened what had been a five-game schedule against Kansas State at Memorial Stadium on a Friday afternoon in late September of 1974....
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