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Husker and Sooner team members gathered prior to the 2022 NU-OU game Over 50 members of the 1970 and '71 Nebraska and Oklahoma teams got together at an event prior to the 2022 game in Lincoln including Coach Tom Osborne and Barry Switzer. The evening's agenda included panel discussions from offensive and defensive leaders and awards from the Orange Bowl Committee and the new Mike "Red" Beran award, which was given to Jerry Murtaugh, who was a member of the 1970 team and is the founder of the Nebraska Greats Foundation. The Nebraska Greats Foundation is patterned after Mike Ditka's Gridiron Gre...
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What we learned from Nebraska's down-to-the-wire loss to Oklahoma In the aftermath of Saturday's "Sooner Showdown," we learned several things: If Oklahoma was the #3 team in college football, then Alabama needs to be in the NFL.Sooner QB Spencer Rattler will not likely win the Heisman this year.The Huskers are a better football team this week than they were in Week 0.Through 3⅓ seasons under Scott Frost, the Huskers still find new and creative ways to lose football games.Yes, the Huskers went on the road and took the #3 team to the wire and came within a play of either tying or winning the gam...
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A wrap-up of retrospectives of 1971 Nebraska-Oklahoma As Nebraska and Oklahoma commemorate the 1971 Game of the Century, we have assembled a collection of retrospectives published in the run-up to Saturday's 50th-anniversary game in Norman. (If you're a HuskerMax regular, you've probably seen most of these already in the Fresh Links section.) The ESPN article is not one you want to miss, and Rich Glover's chat with the Tulsa paper is one of this writer's favorites. Asterisk indicates item may require subscription. ESPN | Behind-the-scenes stories of Oklahoma, Nebraska and college football's gr...
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Cornerback for the Nebraska Cornhuskers from 1970 to 1972 Joe Blahak was a starting defensive back from 1970 through 1972. Sadly, Joe passed away on April 25th, 2016, from an apparent heart attack. His Nebraska teams finished 33-2-2. He was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 1990, the Columbus, NE Shamrock Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2011. He earned All-Big Eight honors twice and second team All-American as a senior. Besides making the last block in Johnny Rodgers famous punt return he also forced a fumble and recovered another one ...
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1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers Lombardi Award and Outland Trophy Winner Rich Glover was a starter on Nebraska's 1970 and '71 National Championship team as a defensive tackle. He won the Outland Trophy, Lombardi Award, AFCA-Kodak Player of Year, and finished Third Place in Heisman Trophy voting in 1972. Other awards that year include Defensive Player of the Year (AP and UPI), All Big Eight - AP, UPI, World-Herald, and the Outstanding Defensive Player in the Orange Bowl. In the Game of the Century, he had 22 tackles and knocked down the 4th down pass attempt by Jack Mildren to ice the game. His profe...
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Bulls review and Oklahoma preview Saturday's win over the Buffalo Bulls was played in front of 86,000 Husker fans who were eager to see their team win its second game in a row and to go 2-1 for the season. The Mighty Husker Fans Those who showed up Saturday afternoon were part of the 377th consecutive sellout streak dating back to the Kennedy administration. The fans had to contend with triple digit temps (130 degrees on the field). The heat was stifling, but Husker fans were up to the task. Who says the sellout streak isn't important to Husker fans? That's crazy. Husker fans are the best. Thr...
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Scored four of the Huskers' five touchdowns in the 1971 Game of the Century against Oklahoma Somebody named Johnny Rodgers scored the other one with the famous punt return. Jeff Kinney lettered at Nebraska in 1969, '70, and '71 and was the starting halfback on the National Championship teams in 1970 and '71. Jeff went on to play four years with the Kansas City Chiefs and one year with the Buffalo Bills. Drafted in 1st Round by the Kansas City Chiefs1971 First-Team All-American (Time Magazine)1971 Third-Team All-American (AP, UPI)1971 Academic All-American1971 First-Team All-Big 8 (AP, UPI)1971...
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1971 Outland Trophy winner at Nebraska A star at defensive tackle on Nebraska's 1970 and 1971 national championship teams, Larry Jacobson became Nebraska's first major award winner when he captured the Outland Trophy after his senior season in 1971. It was the first of the school's eight Outland trophies, awarded tp the nation's top interior lineman. As a senior, Jacobson earned All-Big Eight and All-America honors as he helped the Blackshirts to top-five national rankings in rush defense (85.9, second), total defense (202.9, fifth) and scoring defense (8.2, third) en route to a 13-0 record an...
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Nebraska Cornhusker linebacker on two National Championship teams in two years and featured on two Sports Illustrated covers. Bob Terrio was a junior college transfer from Fullerton College and played on both National Championship teams in 1970 and 1971 which were both undefeated teams. During his entire college career he only had one loss which was a 15-14 game his sophomore year at Fullerton. He helped secure Nebraska's first national championship by intercepting a Bert Jones pass with 45 seconds left in NU's 17-12 victory over LSU in the 1971 Orange Bowl. A year later in Miami, his first-ha...
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Interview with strongside linebacker for Nebraska in 1971 and 1972 Bill Sloey was a linebacker on the 1971 and '72 Nebraska teams. This interview was done on June 23, 2004 by David Max. DM Where are you from originally? BS I was born in Columbus, Nebraska in the same hospital as Joe Blahak. My dad was a teacher/coach in Leigh, Nebraska. We moved to Wahoo when I was in kindergarten, then we moved to Randolph, Iowa. My second cousin, Al Sloey, married a Sullivan and retired in Shenandoah, Iowa and I am a distant relative of the former trainer George Sullivan. We moved to California when I was 10...
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