Answer: Bobby Reynolds
Bobby Reynolds ran for 1,342 yards in 1950. Jeff Kinney ran for 1,037 yards in 1971, Tony Davis ran for 1,008 yards in 1973, and I.M. Hipp ran for 1,301 yards in 1977.
From Quiz: Cornhusker Running Backs
Answer: 1970
They won a share of the title this year.
From Quiz: Husker Football
Answer: Nebraska
A 5'7" 150 lb. fullback recruited by Bob Devaney, and actually strapped a 5 lb. weight under his shirt during a weigh-in. Solich started at fullback his senior year weighing 165 lbs., and ran for 204 yards against Air Force.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: Warren Alfson
Alfson from Wisner, NE, was a Depression-era high school graduate who worked for several years in order to pay his tuition (for many years, NU gave out no scholarships for sports). After his freshman year, he requested that he be allowed to sit out a year to get himself in better shape. It worked, because he was twice named first team Big Six Conference, and was first team All-America guard in 1940 (when he was twenty-six years old).
From Quiz: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Answer: 1953
The game was played on September 19th vs. Oregon on NBC. Home games were broadcast on the local WOW-TV network in 1949 and 1950.
There was also a game telecast 14 years earlier, in 1939 vs. Kansas Sate on October 28th, during TV's so-called experimental era. In all likelihood it was viewed on just one tv set in the press box. The game was played in Manhattan.
From Quiz: Husker Blitz
Answer: 42-17
Nebraska won the game 42-17, and shared the National Championship with Michigan.
From Quiz: Nebraska Huskers
Answer: 4
Nebraska only lost 1 game this year whre Dejuan Groce ran a punt return back for a touchdown.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: 199
Tommie was over 200 at one point, then lost some yards and went back to 199, as Nebraska won the National Championship 62-24 over Florida.
From Quiz: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Answer: Scott Frost
In 1997, Scott Frost ran for 1,095 yards and passed for over 1,000 yards. Crouch ran for 1,115 yards in 2001. Gill and Gdowski never ran for over 1,000 yards in a season.
From Quiz: Husker Quarterbacks
Answer: Mike Rozier
Mike Rozier was one of the first four to rush for over 2,000 yards in a single season. He rushed for 2,148 yards in 1983. That was good enough to earn him the Heisman Trophy.
From Quiz: Cornhusker Running Backs
Answer: Johnny Rodgers
Johnny "The Jet" Rodgers won the Heisman in 1972.
From Quiz: Husker Football
Answer: Johnny Rodgers
Johnny "The Jet" Rodgers won the 1972 Heisman award, Was named to the Cornhuskers All-Century team in 1999, and inducted into the College Football Hall Of Fame in 2000. If you've heard the song, "The Crowd Goes Wild", by Mark Wills, it documents one of "The Jet's" most famous runs.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: 84
Tom quit professional football to pursue his doctorate, and because his future in pro football (especially with the then-miserable Redskins) was far from promising.
From Quiz: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Answer: Real, Real, Real
They are all Jesus Jones songs. It was a well-produced (and very entertaining) clip.
From Quiz: Husker Blitz
Answer: 18-16
In the last seconds of the game, Nebraska kicked a field goal which missed. That would of won the game and a National Championship.
From Quiz: Nebraska Huskers
Answer: Texas A&M
In the Texas A&M game, Nebraska was down 31-14 starting the 4th quarter, when they came back and pulled it off 38-31.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: California
Eric Crouch was starting quarterback at that time, when he was a freshman. Nebraska also won the game.
From Quiz: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Answer: 1
Nebraska scored a late touchdown to pull within one point. They could have kicked a PAT to tie it, but they went for 2 to try and win it. However, their 2 point conversion failed when a Turner Gill pass fell incomplete.
From Quiz: Husker Football
Answer: 25
Tom Osborne retired after the 1997 season with an awesome record of 254-49-3, and was later a Nebraska Congressman.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: David Horne
David Horne a freshman, had 4 touchdowns to lead Nebraska to a 38-31 win over Texas A&M.
From Quiz: Nebraska Huskers
Answer: 3
Nebraska lost 27-24 after they threw a interception on the last play.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: Mike Stuntz
Jammel Lord was the back up quarterback, but Mike Stuntz was to throw the pass to Eric Crouch, where Nebraska won the game 20-10.
From Quiz: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Answer: Dave Humm
Dave Humm set a single season record 2,074 yards passing as a sophomore in 1972. He completed 140 passes out 266 attempts in eleven games. This was his best year statistically even though he was not named to the All-American team until 1974.
From Quiz: Husker Quarterbacks
Answer: Ahman Green
Ahman Green rushed for 1,086 yards in his freshman season in 1995, while stepping in for the suspended Lawrence Phillips.
From Quiz: Cornhusker Running Backs
Answer: 255
He won 255 games over his 25 years as head coach. That's an average of over 10 wins per season.
From Quiz: Husker Football
Answer: 1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma
1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma contained 4 lead changes. Nose Guard Rich Glover had 22 tackles, and this game led to Nebraska's second National Championship in a row.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: Oklahoma could not go, do to a "no repeat" bowl clause
The Cornhuskers, who finished second in the Big Seven behind the unbeaten Sooners, were humiliated by Duke, 34-7, in Miami. The "no-repeat" clause was soon eliminated after the mismatch.
From Quiz: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Answer: Cory Schleshinger
In the 4th quarter, Nebraska was down 17-10, when Nebraska's fullback Cory Schleshinger, ran for 2 touchdowns to win the game 24-17, and a National Championship.
From Quiz: Nebraska Huskers
Answer: Kris Brown
Kris Brown the kicker scored the first points of three. Nebraska went on to win the game 48-10.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: Texas A&M
In the Texas A&M game, Nebraska had a 110 Pancake Blocks for a school record. A pancake block is when an offensive lineman knocks the defense flat on their back. Nebraska went on and won the game 38-31.
From Quiz: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Answer: Steve Taylor
Steve Taylor was 10 for 15, for 217 yards, 5 touchdowns and no interceptions in the September 1987 game against UCLA. That gave him a pass rating of 298.2 for the game. Steve Tayler was named an All-American in 1987.
From Quiz: Husker Quarterbacks
Answer: Calvin Jones
Calvin Jones was a red-shirt freshman in 1991. He ran for 900 yards during that season.
From Quiz: Cornhusker Running Backs
Answer: 5
5 times the Huskers have won the National Championship. 1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, and 1997.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson
Bud's prediction that the Cornhuskers would have trouble with play-action passes would prove prophetic, as the Sooner passing game almost carried them to victory.
From Quiz: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Answer: Miami Fla
This was Nebraska's first win in a bowl game that year.
From Quiz: Nebraska Huskers
Answer: Phillip Bland
Nebraska's Phillip Bland made the interception to win the game 38-31. Nebraska's record was then 6-3.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
Answer: 62-36
Nebraska lost the game 62-36, to keep them out of the Big 12 Championship, but still got in the National Championship.
From Quiz: Nebraska Cornhuskers
Answer: Vince Ferragamo
Ferragamo was named to the 1976 All-American team when he threw for 2,071 yards and 20 touchdowns. Humm was an All-American in 1974. Tagge was an All-American in 1971. Sorley was never named to an All-American team.
From Quiz: Husker Quarterbacks
Answer: Frank Solich
Frank Solich, a fullback, rushed for 204 yards against Air Force in 1965. He went on to coach the Cornhuskers for over 25 years, first as an assistant coach and then as a head coach.
From Quiz: Cornhusker Running Backs
Answer: Dennis Claridge
Dennis Claridge went on to become a 2 time All-Big 8 QB, and led the Huskers to a 19-3 record in his final 2 seasons, 1962 and 1963.
From Quiz: Nebraska Football
