First radio broadcast of a Husker football game, Nov. 5, 1921
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, ...
Football
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Bowl Games
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 ...
The man who scored Nebraska’s first-ever touchdown died in the Soviet Gulag
By David L. Bristow, Editor
May 17, 2023
Consider these three people:
A young man who scored the University of Nebraska’s first-ever ...
Before Memorial Stadium
This article appears in the Fall 2023 issue of Nebraska History Magazine. Household-plus members of History Nebraska receive four issues per year. Learn more.
By ...
The Huskers wore blue jerseys for Memorial Stadium’s first game
By David L. Bristow
The Nebraska Cornhuskers wore blue jerseys during the first football game ever played at Memorial Stadium on October 13, 1923. The ...
Memorial Stadium turns 100
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 ...
Earliest video of Husker football
Film clips from a circa-1919 game against Notre Dame are spliced together with clips from an even earlier game, circa 1912-1914. We believe this is the earliest known ...
The Huskers on Thanksgiving 1922 and The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame
Final game at Nebraska Field, November 30, 1922. RG2758-105-10
It was the final game of the season. Notre Dame came to Lincoln to face Nebraska in front of 16,000 ...
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