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Big Ten Countdown: 8 - Nebraska's George Flippin And A History of Black Football Players in the Big Ten
We're coming near the end of Nebraska's time in the Big 12. Our countdown to the Big Ten has featured quite a variety of topics. It wouldn't be complete, however, with an examination of the history of black football players - at least those involving Big Ten teams that now includes Nebraska. This...
Nebraska vs Washington - Huskers vs Huskies: A Series History
Saturday's Nebraska - Washington game will be the eighth meeting between the teams. The all-time series is tied at 3-3-1, with Nebraska winning the last two meetings in 1997 and 1998. Saturday's game will be the fifth straight meeting when at least one of them was ranked within the top eight teams...
Best of Nebraska: Nominations for Best I-Back
The summer time is the slow time for a college sports blog traditionally. (Though this week looks like the exception with conference realignment on the frontburner.) With that in mind, CornNation will be sponsoring a series of threads to determine the "Best of Nebraska". We'll look at things both...
Countdown to Husker Football Season: #11 - Consecutive 100 Yard Games Rushing Record
Like #15, there are a number of options for #11, including one I nearly chose: - Matt "The Turmaninator" Turman - the once student-equipment manager turned walk-on who started at quarterback after Brook Berringer and Tommie Frazier went down to injury. For more on Turman, go back and look at the...
1995: Not Quite Ready to Roar (Part Two)
Part One In Part One, Mizzou managed a 2-2 non-conference record with an okay running game and relatively salty defense. What would happen when the big boys started coming at them, week after week? Pain. --- October 7: Missouri (2-2) at #13 Kansas State (4-0) October would see Mizzou take on...
Husker Football: Making Lists of "Who To Watch" And Who’s "Under the Radar"?
Spring football is all about hope for college football fans. It has little or nothing to do with next season’s opponents and everything to do with dreaming about next season’s potential. Everyone is optimistic. They start compiling what they think will be next year’s win-loss...
The 25 Greatest Huskers Of the Past 25 Years
Earlier this year I got the chance to write for "Home Game" magazine. It's a new magazine that is available at Nebraska home games for the first time this past season. Versions of "Home Game" were published for Oklahoma and Texas A&M.I wrote this article "The 25 Greatest Huskers of the Past 25...
Review - What It Means to Be A Husker
What It Means To Be A Husker is part of a series by Triumph Books. The book begins with a foreward by Tom Osborne, who provides an overview his career and a summation of his feeling regarding the community of 'Husker Nation'. It's a nice piece, but the book begins to roll immediately when...
A Past You Can't Escape
I call your attention to an article by Jonathan Hunt in the Athens News, a newspaper in Athens, Ohio, home of the University of Ohio. The article details some of the issues around Frank Solich's Bobcats who have had in run-ins with the law. It then turns the spotlight on Frank's past which of...
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