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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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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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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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The only Nebraska Cornhusker to win two National Championships and two Super Bowls. Monte Johnson was a defensive tackle on the National Championship teams in 1970 and 1971 and went on to play and win in two Super Bowls for the Oakland Raiders in 1977 and 1981. He is the only Husker with two National Championships and Super Bowls. This interview was done on June 18, 2004 by David Max. DM Where are you from originally? MJ I grew up in Bloomington, MN, a suburb of Minneapolis. DM Who recruited you to Nebraska? MJ Carl Selmer. It's kind of an interesting story. Carl got a film from a school calle...
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Starting center on the Nebraska Cornhuskers 1971. '71 and '72 teams Doug Dumler was the starting center on the 1970 and '71 National Championship teams as well as the 1972 team that defeated Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl. This interview was done on June 3, 2004, by David Max. DM Where are you from originally? DD I was born in Kansas but I grew up in the Chicago area. That's where I went to high school and played high school football. DM Who recruited you to Nebraska? DD Actually, nobody initially. I was all ready to go to a small college in northern Illinois or perhaps in Wisconsin but my dad ...
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Nebraska vs. Oklahoma Game of the Century interview with Bill Janssen, versatile lineman for the Cornhuskers. Bill Janssen played multiple different line positions for Nebraska and lettered in 1969, '71 and '72. Bill is one of four players from North Dakota to letter at Nebraska. He was the starting defensive tackle on the 1971 National Championship team that went 13-0. Bill was a two-year standout for the Blackshirts and a 1972 co-captain. A fine defender against the run and a tough pass rusher, he was one of the most versatile Huskers, playing defensive end, offensive guard and center before...
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