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...
by Mike Babcock | Sep 19, 2017 | Football
When Bob Newton made a recruiting visit to Nebraska in late 1968, Husker assistant coach Jim Ross, who also was assistant athletic director to Bob Devaney, picked up Newton at the Lincoln Municipal Airport. Newton was wearing a light coat when he got off the plane. As...
by Mike Babcock | Sep 12, 2017 | Football
From the beginning it was apparent Tom Osborne was a “student of the game.” Those were the words Jim Ross once used, hence the quotation marks. Osborne studied a lot of film, not only of Nebraska but also of opponents. Ross said the young coach...
by Mike Babcock | Sep 5, 2017 | Football
When she and Tom Osborne were married in August of 1962, wife Nancy has said her “perception” was that he had joined Bob Devaney’s staff as a grad assistant in order to get football out of his system. She figured his career path would soon take him...
by Mike Babcock | Aug 29, 2017 | Football
Larry Kramer was a unanimous All-America offensive tackle at Nebraska in 1964. And Tom Osborne was part of the reason. Kramer would have told you as much. Carl Selmer was the Husker offensive line coach during Kramer’s career as a left tackle on Bob...
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