1920s Game Day: NU vs. Notre Dame (Part 1)
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Memorial Stadium hasn’t always been the home of Nebraska Cornhusker football. Between 1909 and 1922, the team played at Nebraska Field, ...
Nebraska football
What We Found
Game Day: Nebraska vs. Notre Dame, Part 2
By David L. Bristow, Editor
The cover of the Summer 2010 issue of Nebraska History Magazine features the still-under-construction stadium. Though unfinished, the ...
Nebraska Football and Michael Oriard’s Bowled Over: A Review Essay
Oriard’s 2010 book examines the effects of politics and social change on big-time college football during the past fifty years. Our reviewer investigates the issues of ...
The Huskers wore green jerseys for the 1919 football season
The Huskers played the entire 1919 season wearing green jerseys and scarlet socks. What was their athletic director thinking? And how did fans react?
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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, ...
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 ...
Husker football allowed only one radio broadcast per season in the 1930s
By David L. Bristow, Editor
Why did the University of Nebraska broadcast only one Cornhusker football game a year? It was about money.
In September ...
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