by David Bristow | May 17, 2023 | Blog
By David L. Bristow, Editor May 17, 2023 Consider these three people: A young man who scored the University of Nebraska’s first-ever touchdown in a football game A widely-respected agronomist known for developing hearty varieties of citrus An American...
by David Bristow | Apr 26, 2023 | Blog
By David L. Bristow, Editor April 26, 2023 What’s the proper way to break ground for the new home of the Cornhuskers? With a team and a plow, of course! University officials broke ground on Memorial Stadium on April 26, 1923. An estimated thousand people showed...
by evolempirecreative | Dec 23, 2022 | Blog
The annual debate over the best way to crown college football’s national champion is nothing new. Bowl games and playoffs were the subjects of a poll of the nation’s sports editors as the 1938 season came to a close. Under the headline, “Writers...
by evolempirecreative | Nov 16, 2022 | Blog
Long before Lyell Bremser first shouted “Man, woman, and child, did that put ’em in the aisles!,” Pittsburgh radio station KDKA made Husker history on November 5, 1921, when it broadcast the Pitt-Nebraska football game. It was the first live broadcast of an NU...
by evolempirecreative | Nov 4, 2022 | Blog
By David L. Bristow, Editor Husker fans love arguing about whether the 1971 or 1955 championship team was the greatest in school history. But one year the Cornhuskers went undefeated, untied, and unscored upon. When was it? Husker fans argue about whether the...