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Nebraska Cornhuskers football
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The Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represents the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Among the 128 Division I-A teams, Nebraska is one of ten programs to win 800 or more games. Nebraska has more victories against Power Five opponents than any program, as well as the third most victories all-time, behind only Michigan. Nebraska also has the most wins and the highest winning percentage of any program over the last 50 years, ESPN ranks two undefeated Nebraska squads, the 1971 team and the 1995 team, among the top three teams in college football history. Nebraska claims 46 conference championships and five championships,1970,1971,1994,1995. The titles in the 1990s marked the first time that a team won three championships in four seasons since the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in 1946–1949. Also, the 2011–2012 Alabama Crimson Tide, the 1994–1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers, Nebraska also has had five undefeated seasons in which they were not the national champions,1902,1903,1913,1914, and 1915. Between 1912 and 1916, a 34-game unbeaten streak was recorded by head coach Ewald O. Stiehm, famous Cornhuskers include Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers, Mike Rozier, and Eric Crouch. Rodgers was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and for the new millennium he was voted the teams Player of the Century, Rozier was likewise inducted into the hall in 2006. Bible, Bob Devaney, Biff Jones, Tom Osborne, Eddie Robbie Robinson, on June 11,2010, Nebraska ended the universitys affiliation with the Big 12 Conference and joined the Big Ten Conference beginning in the 2011 season. The Huskers team began its history as the Old Gold Knights, the name Cornhuskers first appeared in the school newspaper as We Have Met The Cornhuskers And They Are Ours referring to a 20–18 upset victory over Iowa in 1893. The term Cornhuskers was referring to Iowa in that instance, in 1899, Cy Sherman was the first person to refer to the Nebraska football team as the Cornhuskers and the team has used that name since 1900. Nebraska football began play in 1890 with a 10–0 victory over the Omaha YMCA on Thanksgiving Day, the football program started strong and experienced success from the very beginning, going twenty-eight years straight with only a single losing season. Until the 1–7–1 losing season in 1899 in coach A. Edwin Branchs only year at the helm, george Flippin was the first African-American athlete at Nebraska and only the fifth black athlete at a predominantly white university. Because of Flippins presence on the roster, Missouri refused to play a game with Nebraska at Omaha in 1892. The result was a 1–0 forfeit, Nebraskas 4th coach, Frank Crawford was the first paid head football coach at Nebraska. Eddie Robbie Robinson and Fielding H. Yost, the sixth and seventh head coaches, were the earliest Nebraska coaches to eventually be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Booth was the programs 9th leader, and had the second-best career record spanning more than a year during this era and his 1902 team went undefeated, untied and unscored upon
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Big Eight Conference
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The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association -affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. Additionally, the University of Iowa was an member of the MVIAA. The conference was dissolved in 1996, the Big Eight kept its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. In February 1995, the Big Eight and the Southwest Conference announced that the two leagues had reached an agreement to form a new conference. The eight members of the Big Eight joined with SWC schools Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech to form the Big 12 Conference the following year. A vote was conducted on whether to keep the new headquarters in Kansas City. The two Oklahoma schools, all four Texas schools, and Colorado voted for the move while both Kansas schools, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa State voted for Kansas City. The University of Iowa who was also a member of the Western Conference was also a joint member of the conference, Iowa only participated in football and outdoor mens track and field. In 1908, Drake University and Iowa Agricultural College joined the MVIAA, Iowa who was a joint member departed in 1911 to only compete in the Western Conference, but Kansas State University joined the conference in 1913. Nebraska left in 1918 to play as an independent for two seasons before returning in 1920, in 1919, the University of Oklahoma and Saint Louis University applied for membership, but were disapproved due to deficient management of their athletic programs. The conference then added Grinnell College in 1919, with the University of Oklahoma applying again, Oklahoma A&M University joined in 1925, bringing conference membership to ten, an all-time high. At a meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 19,1928, Six of the seven state schools formed a conference that was initially known as the Big Six Conference. Just before the start of practice, the six schools announced they would retain the MVIAA name for formal purposes. However, fans and media continued to call it the Big Six, the three private schools – Drake, Grinnell, and Washington University – joined with Oklahoma A&M, becoming known as the Missouri Valley Conference. For the remainder of the Big Eights run, both conferences claimed 1907 as their date, as well as the same history through 1927. To this day, it has never been established which conference was the original. Conference membership grew with the addition of the University of Colorado on December 1,1947, later that month, Reaves E. Peters was hired as Commissioner of Officials and Assistant Secretary and set up the first conference offices in Kansas City, Missouri. With the addition of Colorado, the unofficial name became the Big Seven Conference, coincidentally
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Ewald O. Stiehm
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Ewald O. Jumbo Stiehm was an American football player, coach of football and basketball, and college athletics administrator. He served as the football coach at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Stiehm was also the basketball coach at Nebraska from 1911 to 1915 and at Indiana from 1919 to 1920. Stiehm began his career at Ripon College in 1910, where he led the Red Hawks football team to a 4–3 record. From 1911 to 1915, he coached football at Nebraska, from 1913 to 1915, his teams went undefeated seasons. In the history of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football program, Stiehm has the highest winning percentage of anyone who coached more than two games, from 1916 to 1921, he coached at Indiana, and compiled a 20–18–1 record. Stiehm died on August 18,1923 in Bloomington, Indiana at the age of 37 after an 11-month bout with stomach cancer, Nebraska profile Ewald O. Stiehm at the College Football Data Warehouse Ewald O. Stiehm at College Basketball at Sports-Reference. com
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Nebraska Field
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Nebraska Field was an American football stadium in the midwestern United States, located in Lincoln, Nebraska. At the northeast corner of North 10th Street and North T Street, Nebraska Field was succeeded by the new Memorial Stadium in 1923, which was built in the same location. The local portion of North 10th Street was eventually renamed Stadium Drive in the following the completion of Memorial Stadium. The present playing field at Memorial Stadium is conventionally aligned north-south, Nebraska Fields exact capacity is not recorded, but the largest recorded attendance was 16,000 in its final game, against Notre Dame on November 30,1922. It was the first of two losses for the legendary Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, Notre Dame was undefeated in 1924. The final game at Nebraska Field in 1922 was also the last attended by Nebraskas longtime trainer Jack Best, who had served since the programs inception in 1890
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1911 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
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The 1911 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1911 college football season. The team was coached by Ewald O. Stiehm and played their games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln. New head coach Stiehm arrived in Lincoln and took over a program with only 17 players on the roster to start the year, anderson, Arthur G Chauner, Walter E Elliott, E. B. C Frank, Ernest HB Frank, Owen HB Gibson, J. P and this was the only time Kearney State would face off with the Cornhuskers. Coach Stiehm treated Kansas State as he did Kearney State, as a game to test position players out. Much like the previous week, the Cornhuskers dominated their opponent with another lopsided shutout victory, Minnesota again snatched a victory from Nebraska, extending the futility of the Cornhuskers yet again. Nebraska failed to capitalize on their successes, having outgained Minnesota in rushing, passing and kicking, putting aside the annual disappointments in Minnesota, the Missouri contest was Nebraskas 8th straight shutout victory. This series was renewed after an interruption, and opened the Cornhuskers Missouri Valley conference slate to start them out 1-0. Nebraska was understandably feeling confident, having outscored its opponents 473-57 since the beginning of the previous season, Iowa still lagged behind Nebraska in the series, though, at 3-8-1. Doane came into Lincoln for what was becoming a road trip loss for their program. Coach Stiehm used the Doane game as another match, utilizing substitutes and resting starters on the way to the shutout victory. With wins against both in-state rivals for the year, Nebraska recorded their eighth state championship, Kansas was dealt a 0-29 defeat on their home field, considered among the most decisive defeats for the Jayhawks of that time. Nebraska finished their league slate undefeated and improved their record over Kansas to 10-8, the match with Michigan was anticipated for much of the season and seen by some as a rematch to settle accounts following Nebraskas loss to the Michigan Wolverines Football Club in Ann Arbor in 1905. This second meeting of the teams was also the first Homecoming football game for Nebraska, coach Stiehms first year at Nebraska seemed like a continuation of the relative success of the programs past several seasons. The Cornhuskers program total improved to 123-46-10, while the overall record improved to 7-2-2. Nebraska and Iowa were named Co-Champions of the Missouri Valley conference
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1913 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
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The 1913 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was the representative of the University of Nebraska in the 1913 college football season. The team was coached by Ewald O. Stiehm and played their games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln. Coach Stiehm returned for his third year after earning conference championships in both of his previous seasons, although the roster grew slightly from 15 to 17 players, only two starters from 1912 were still part of the program, which required some position changes to be made. This was the first year that Nebraska utilized a Spring football practice session, the young Nebraska team got off to a good, confidence-building start with a shutout victory over Washburn to start the season in the first meeting of these teams. Despite scoring first, Kansas State was handed their third loss in the series. When Minnesota arrived in Lincoln for the 13th meeting of teams in what had become an annual epic grudge match. Minnesota would not allow Nebraska to score again but were unable to respond. Of the Cornhuskers, coach Williams of Minnesota said I cannot say I expected the Gophers to be defeated, following the Minnesota victory, a surprisingly difficult fight faced the Cornhuskers when Haskell returned to continue their series with Nebraska. The fierce contest injured Nebraskas team captain, who had to leave the game and was feared to be lost for the season. In the end, the Cornhuskers barely escaped with a 1-point margin of victory and sent the Haskell Indians home with another defeat, still without the team captain, the Cornhuskers met the Cyclones in Ames and made their fourth and final appearance at the soon-to-be-replaced State Field. Iowa State provided some fight to make it a game, but ultimately again to Nebraska. The backups were still more than a match for NWU, cornhusker defense was the order of the day, and Nebraska made use of players returning from injury to hold the Jayhawks scoreless. The win secured Nebraska as unbeaten in conference play and improved their record over Kansas to 12-8, Iowa arrived in Lincoln with a reputation as a fast squad that used formations difficult to defend. Nebraska rose to the occasion and held the Hawkeyes off the board for the entire game, using players still hobbled by injuries suffered during the Haskell game, the Cornhuskers punched in an early touchdown to go up, and a late one to seal the outcome. More than once Iowa threatened to score but came away empty, despite the worries at the beginning of the season that the 1913 Nebraska squad was inexperienced, coach Stiehm managed to lead his squad to an undefeated season and 3rd straight conference title. After his third year, coach Stiehm had again improved his record, to 20-2-2, while the program improved to 138-47-10 overall
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Drake Bulldogs football
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The Drake Bulldogs football program represents Drake University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level. Drake began competing in football in 1893. The 1922 Drake Bulldogs football team is considered by many to be the greatest in Drake history and is, to date, Drake capped the historic season with a 48–6 triumph over Mississippi State on November 25,1922. They received votes as the one team in the College Football Researchers Association poll and were invited to the White House for their accomplishments. The Bulldogs were coached by legend Ossie Solem, during the 1926 Homecoming activities, Babe Ruth visited and suited up for a Drake scrimmage. Head coach Ossie Solem extended the invitation stating We finally inquired had he ever indulged in the dirt eating pastime known as football, the answer was sort of a woeful No. It was evident that the Big Bimbo had missed something in his days. Ruth scored a 20-yard touchdown in the mock scrimmage, while it was not the official Rose Bowl Game, Drake was the first Iowa school to play in the Rose Bowl Stadium. The Bulldogs defeated UCLA 25–6 in front of a capacity crowd of 40,000 on November 28,1927. At the time, UCLA played major games at the Rose Bowl Stadium, the Bruins did not officially move on a permanent basis to the Rose Bowl Stadium until 1982. The game was highlighted as one of the NCAA Football Thanksgiving Special Games that year, following the 1931 season head coach Ossie Solem schedule a game in Honolulu, Hawaii in which the bulldogs squared off against Hawaii. Solem frustrated by the lack of rewards, called the trip a reward for his teams fourth straight Missouri Valley Conference championship. In a close encounter at Honolulu Stadium on December 19,1931, the game was the first by an Iowa school in the state of Hawaii. It was also the last game for Solem as Bulldog coach and he left the next season taking the head football coach vacancy at Iowa. Drake was the first school of its size to install lights, on October 6,1928, the Bulldogs defeated Simpson College 41–6 in the first night game at Drake Stadium. In 1951, Johnny Bright was named a First Team College Football All-American and he was invited to the Heisman Trophy festivities and finished fifth in the voting. In 1969, Bright was named Drake Universitys greatest football player of all time, in February 2006, the football field at Drake Stadium, in Des Moines, Iowa, was named in his honor. In November 2006, Bright was voted one of the CFLs Top 50 players of the modern era by Canadian sports network TSN
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1912 college football season
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On September 26, Cornell defeated Washington & Jefferson 3-0. Princeton beat Stevens 65-0 and three days later, beat Rutgers 41-6, dartmouths won 26-0 over Bates College. After opening with a 33-0 Wednesday win over Albright, Lehigh beat Delaware 45-0, Swarthmore won at Johns Hopkins 40-6. Carlisle beat Dickinson 35-0, and followed on Wednesday with a 65-0 win over Villanova at Harrisburg, Vanderbilt opened with a 105-0 win over visiting Bethel College. October 5 Harvard beat Holy Cross 19-0, Yale beat Syracuse, 21-0, Princeton defeated Lehigh 35-0, Carlisle and Washington & Jefferson played a scoreless tie. Penn State beat Carnegie Tech 41-0, wisconsin opened with a 13-0 win over Lawrence College, Michigan beat Case 34-0, and Chicago beat Indiana 13-0. Vanderbilt scored in triple digits again, but was scored upon, Georgia beat Chattanooga 33-0 and Auburn beat Mercer 56-0 in a game at Columbus, Georgia. October 12 Harvard defeated Williams 26-3, Yale beat Lafayette 16-0, Princeton beat Virginia Tech 31-0, Penn State beat Washington & Jefferson 30-0, Carlisle won at Syracuse 33-0, Lehigh won at Navy, 14-0 and Swarthmore won at Penn 6-3. Georgetown beat Washington & Lee, 20-0 Vanderbilt beat visiting Rose-Hulman Institute 54-0, wisconsin beat Northwestern 56-0 and Michigan defeated Michigan State 55-7. October 19 Yale won at Army, 16-0, Dartmouth won at Williams 21-0, Harvard beat Amherst 46-0, Penn State won at Cornell 29-6, Carlisle won at Pittsburgh 45-8, and Swarthmore won at Annapolis, defeating Navy 21-6, to stay unbeaten. Georgetown won at North Carolina State, 48-0, Vanderbilt and Georgia met in Atlanta. Vandy handed the Bulldogs their only loss in a 46-0 drubbing, Sewanee beat Chattanooga 27-0, and Auburn defeated Clemson 27-6. After warmup wins over Daniel Baker College and Trinity College, Texas A&M beat Arkansas 27-0 in a game at Dallas, in another game at Dallas, Texas lost to Oklahoma, 21-6. Wisconsin beat Purdue 41-0, Michigan won at Ohio State 14-0, october 26 Princeton hosted Dartmouth and won 22-7. Harvard defeated Brown 30-10 and Yale beat Washington & Jefferson, 13-3, Penn State beat visiting Gettysburg College 25-0 and Swarthmore beat Villanova 27-0. In an intersectional game, Michigan lost at Syracuse 18-7, Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss 24-0 in Nashville, and Sewanee beat Tennessee 33-6 at Chattanooga. In Birmingham, Auburn defeated Mississippi State, 7-0, Carlisle won at Georgetown, 34-20, followed two days later by a game in Toronto in a 49-7 win against the Toronto All-Stars. At Philadelphia, Penn State beat Pennsylvania, 22-6, in Columbus, Georgia, Georgia beat Alabama 13-9
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Lincoln, Nebraska
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Lincoln is the capital of the U. S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers 92.81 square miles with a population of 277,348 in 2015 and it is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 72nd-largest in the United States. The statistical area is home to 345,478 people, making it the 105th-largest combined statistical area in the United States, the city was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster on the wild salt marshes of what was to become Lancaster County. In 1867, the village of Lancaster became Nebraskas state capital and was renamed Lincoln, bertram G. Goodhue designed state capitol building was completed in 1932 and is the second tallest capitol in the United States. As the city is the seat of government for the state of Nebraska, the state, the University of Nebraska was founded in Lincoln in 1867. The university is the largest in Nebraska with 25,006 students enrolled and is the citys third-largest employer, other primary employers fall within the service and manufacturing industries, including a growing high-tech sector. The region makes up a part of what is known as the greater Midwest Silicon Prairie, designated as a refugee-friendly city by the U. S. Department of State in the 1970s, the city was the twelfth-largest resettlement site per capita in the United States by 2000. Refugee Vietnamese, Karen, Sudanese, and Yazidi people have resettled in the city. Lincoln Public Schools during the year of 2016–17 provided support for approximately 3,200 students from 118 countries. Prior to the westward of settlers, the prairie was covered with buffalo grass. Plains Indians, descendants of peoples who occupied the area for thousands of years, lived in. The Pawnee, which included four tribes, lived in villages along the Platte River, an occasional buffalo could still be seen in the plat of Lincoln in the 1860s. Lincoln was founded in 1856 as the village of Lancaster and became the county seat of the newly created Lancaster County in 1859, the village was sited on the east bank of Salt Creek. The first settlers were attracted to the due to the abundance of salt. Once J. Sterling Morton developed his salt mines in Kansas, Captain W. T. Donovan, a former steamer captain, and his family settled on Salt Creek in 1856. In the fall of 1859, the settlers met to form a county. A caucus was formed and the committee, which included Captain Donovan, after the passage of the 1862 Homestead Act, homesteaders began to inhabit the area. The first plat was dated August 6,1864, by the close of 1868, Lancaster had a population of approximately 500 people
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Minneapolis
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Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2015, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul anchor the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago. Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul. It was once the worlds flour milling capital and a hub for timber, the city and surrounding region is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle, with Minneapolis proper containing Americas fifth-highest concentration of Fortune 500 companies. As an integral link to the economy, Minneapolis is categorized as a global city. Noted for its music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue nightclub. The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the citys first schoolteacher, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, Dakota Sioux had long been the regions sole residents when French explorers arrived around 1680. For a time relations were based on fur trading, gradually more European-American settlers arrived, competing for game and other resources with the Dakota. In the early 19th century, the United States acquired this territory from France, fort Snelling was built in 1819 by the United States Army, and it attracted traders, settlers and merchants, spurring growth in the area. The United States government pressed the Mdewakanton band of the Dakota to sell their land, the Minnesota Territorial Legislature authorized present-day Minneapolis as a town in 1856 on the Mississippis west bank. Minneapolis incorporated as a city in 1867, the rail service began between Minneapolis and Chicago. It later joined with the city of St. Anthony in 1872. Minneapolis developed around Saint Anthony Falls, the highest waterfall on the Mississippi River, forests in northern Minnesota were a valuable resource for the lumber industry, which operated seventeen sawmills on power from the waterfall. By 1871, the west river bank had twenty-three businesses, including mills, woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes. Due to the hazards of milling, six local sources of artificial limbs were competing in the prosthetics business by the 1890s. The farmers of the Great Plains grew grain that was shipped by rail to the citys thirty-four flour mills, a father of modern milling in America and founder of what became General Mills, Cadwallader C. Some ideas were developed by William Dixon Gray and some acquired through industrial espionage from the Hungarians by William de la Barre, pillsbury Company across the river were barely a step behind, hiring Washburn employees to immediately use the new methods. The hard red spring wheat that grows in Minnesota became valuable, not until later did consumers discover the value in the bran that Minneapolis
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Adrian College
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Adrian College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college conferring bachelors degrees in 40 academic majors and programs. The college is located in the city of Adrian, Michigan, the 100 acre campus contains newly constructed facilities along with historic buildings. The college features a variety of programs as well as a theatre department. Adrian College is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges, the fall 2013-14 student headcount was 1,649 students. The college had its origin as an institute founded by Wesleyan Methodists at Leoni, Michigan. This institution merged with Leoni Seminary, another Methodist school, in 1855 to form Michigan Union College, in 1859, that institution closed and its assets were transferred to Adrian to establish Adrian College. The college was chartered by the Michigan Legislature on March 28,1859, under the first president of the college, in the early stages of the American Civil War the college volunteered itself as a base for the formation of Michigan regiments for the Union side. The current Valade Hall building sits on the site of the base camp for these soldiers. On June 30,2005, Stanley P. Caine retired after 16 years as president of Adrian College, the next day, Jeffrey Docking became Adrian Colleges 17th president, after serving as a vice president at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. The details of Adrian Colleges growth since 2005 are chronicled in Dr. Dockings recently published book, Crisis in Education, the college is making renovations and expansions to the Science, Business, Visual Arts, and Performing Arts departments. Greek system, Greek life on campus includes five nationally recognized fraternities, Alpha Tau Omega, Pi Kappa Alpha, Theta Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, there are three nationally recognized sororities, Alpha Phi, Alpha Sigma Alpha, and Chi Omega. There is one locally recgonized sorority, Delta Nu Kappa, Adrian College offers over 40 majors and pre-professional programs. It also offers six graduate programs using a unique 4+1 structure for current students, graduate programs exist in, Accounting, Athletic Training, Criminal Justice, Industrial Chemistry, Teacher Education, and Sports Administration and Leadership. Over the past several years eight of the nine buildings were renovated. Institutes are thematic centers focusing on areas of interest supporting the mission of Adrian College, each institute provides programming to students, faculty, staff, and wider community. Adrian College athletic teams, nicknamed the Bulldogs, are part of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the mens NCAA Division III hockey team is a member of the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association. Adrian College is the college or university to offer womens hockey as a varsity sport in Michigan. In 2011, the College reached an agreement with the federal Department of Educations Office of Civil Rights, the College was found guilty of eleven violations of the law that governs gender equality, and agreed to make several changes to its athletic programs
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Columbia, Missouri
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Columbia /kəˈlʌmbiə/ is a city in the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Boone County. Founded in 1818, it is home to the University of Missouri and is the city of the Columbia Metropolitan Area. It is Missouris fourth most-populous city, with a population of 119,108 in 2015. As a midwestern town, the city has a reputation for progressive politics, public art. At the center of Downtown is 8th Street, also known as the Avenue of the Columns, which connects Francis Quadrangle and Jesse Hall to the Boone County Courthouse, originally an agricultural town, the cultivation of the mind is Columbias chief economic concern today. Never a major center of manufacturing, the city depends on healthcare, insurance. Several companies, such as Shelter Insurance, Carfax, and Slackers CDs, cultural institutions include the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the annual True/False Film Festival. The Missouri Tigers, the only major college athletic program, play football at Faurot Field. The city is built upon the hills and rolling prairies of Mid-Missouri, near the Missouri River valley. Limestone forms bluffs and glades while rain carves caves and springs which water the Hinkson, Roche Perche, surrounding the city, Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Mark Twain National Forest, and Big Muddy National Fish and Wildlife Refuge all form a greenbelt preserving sensitive and rare environments. The first humans were hunters who entered the area at least twelve thousand years ago. Later, woodland tribes lived in villages along waterways and built mounds in high places, the Osage and Missouria nations were expelled by the exploration of French traders and the rapid settlement of American pioneers. German, Irish, and other European immigrants soon joined, the modern populace is unusually diverse, over eight percent foreign-born. While White and Black remain the largest ethnicities, Asians are now the third-largest group, todays Columbians are remarkably highly educated and culturally midwestern, though traces of their Southern past remain. The city has called the Athens of Missouri for its classic beauty and educational emphasis. The Columbia area was part of the Mississippian culture and home to the Mound Builders. When European explorers arrived, the area was populated by the Osage, in 1678, La Salle claimed all of Missouri for France. The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the area on the Missouri River in early June 1804, in 1806, two sons of Daniel Boone established a salt lick 40 miles northwest of Columbia
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Doane University
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Doane University is a private liberal arts college in Crete, Nebraska, United States, with additional campuses located in Lincoln, Grand Island and Omaha. Fourteen years later, and after unsuccessful attempts to establish Congregational schools across the state. On July 11,1872, Doane College preempted the old Crete Academy, on May 9,2016, the institution was renamed to Doane University. Doane is the first liberal arts and sciences college in Nebraska, the university has had 67 Fulbright Scholars since the program began in 1946. The enrollment consists of over 1,000 undergraduate students on the Crete campus, as well as 750 adult learners and 1,200 graduate students who attend the Lincoln, Omaha and Grand Island campuses. Doane offers more than 40 undergraduate majors, several pre-professional programs, Doane University athletic teams, nicknamed the Tigers, are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, competing in the Great Plains Athletic Conference. Co-ed sports include cheerleading and shotgun sports, Doane has a rich athletic history. The first college coach at Doane was F. P. Reed, who led the team to a 1-1 record, other coaches in its football history include Al Papik, Tommie Frazier and current head coach Matt Franzen. Doanes football team has participated on three games and won two, tying in the third. The first was the 1950 Bean Bowl where they defeated Colorado State College by a score of 14–6, Doane then had back-to-back appearances in the Mineral Water Bowl in 1967 and 1968. They have qualified for the NAIA National Playoffs five times, most recently in 2015, henry Pratt Fairchild - sociologist and educator Bob Stitt - University of Montana Football Head Coach Zenon C. R. The designation was given to 161 Midwest schools, including six from Nebraska, Doane placed among the top 25 liberal arts colleges nationwide in the ‘least debt rankings released in the Sept.17,2007 issue of U. S. News & World Report. Kaplan/Newsweek College Catalog recently called it a hidden treasure, U. S. News & World Report has ranked Doane a Great School at a Great Price for five consecutive years as well as placed it among the top 25 of 572 Midwestern schools. In 2009, Forbes rated it 66th of Americas Best Colleges, Doane also received a distinction for Hurricane Relief Services for its hurricane relief efforts following the Gulf hurricanes of 2005. Doane University Historic Buildings, including Gaylord Hall, Boswell Observatory and it serves as a location for classes, graduation ceremonies, and on some occasions, weddings
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Bellevue University
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Bellevue University is a private, non-profit university located in Bellevue, Nebraska. It opened in 1966 and from the outset has focused on providing adult education, as of 2011, 80% of their undergraduates were aged 25 and over. The university has over 10,000 students enrolled in a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs, the university began as Bellevue College and opened in 1966 with the aim of providing education for working adults in the area. By 1974 it had become the fourth largest private college in Nebraska and had added a gymnasium, student center, in 1977, Bellevue earned full accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. In the mid-1980s increasing competition from other colleges in the area, however, under its third President, John Muller, who took over in 1985, the college refocused, survived, and started to expand. In 1987 the college offering an accelerated bachelors degree program. In 1994 Bellevue College became Bellevue University, the universitys main campus is in Bellevue, Nebraska. The late 1990s and early 2000s saw expansion of the campus with the opening of the Lozier Professional Center in west Omaha, the Riley Technology Center on the campus. Dr. Mary Hawkins is the president of Bellevue University. Bellevue University now has over 10,000 students and numerous undergraduate and graduate programs, there are programs that are accelerated, cohort-based, in-class, and online. The school offers bachelors and masters degree programs, and one Ph. D. program. The University is regionally accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges, Business degrees at Bellevue University are also accredited by the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education. Mens sports include baseball, basketball, golf and soccer, while womens sports include golf, soccer, the Bellevue mens baseball team won the NAIA Baseball World Series in 1995. In 2011, Bellevue University added mens and womens golf teams
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Vic Halligan
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Victor H. Halligan was an American football player. He played for the University of Nebraska from 1912 to 1914 and was the first All-American football player to be selected from the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Halligan was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of John J. Halligan and Carrie Halligan. He graduated from North Platte High School before enrolling at the University of Nebraska, at the University of Nebraska, Halligan played at the left tackle and fullback back positions for the University of Nebraska football team from 1912 to 1914. He was also a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, as a sophomore in 1912, he played at the fullback position and helped lead Nebraska to a 7–1 record. At the end of the 1913 season, Halligan was chosen as the captain of Nebraskas 1914 team, as a senior, Halligan again played at the left tackle position and led the 1914 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team to its second consecutive undefeated season with a record of 7–0–1. In Halligans three seasons at Nebraska, the Cornhuskers put together a 14-game win streak and compiled a record of 22–1–1. At the conclusion of the 1914 football season, Halligan became Nebraskas first All-American football player and he was selected as a first-team All-American by Frank G. In 1915, Walter Camp again selected Halligan as a third-team All-American, though Halligan had already graduated, camps error in choosing Halligan in 1915 was fodder for Western critics who complained that Camp made his selections without knowing the Western teams and players. The Milwaukee Journal in December 1915 wrote, This season, Camp picked Halligan of Nebraska for a tackle position on his third team. One would naturally think, then, that Halligan had been a bearcat -- some football player, but, it happens that Halligan graduated last June. He was a coach this season, pretty good joke on Walter, eh, picking a coach as one of the star players of the country. Also, do you wonder why some folk dont put much stock in all-America teams, Halligan was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 1973. Halligan graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1915, during World War I, he served in the U. S. Army field artillery. After the war, Halligan returned to North Platte, Nebraska, from 1919 to 1937, he practiced with the firm of Halligan, Beatty & Halligan. He became senior partner of law firm of McIntosh & Halligan in 1937, Halligan was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and served as the local organizations exalted ruler. He was also active in the American Legion and represented the State of Nebraska as a delegate to the American Legion convention in St. Louis. In his later years, he donated land on the side of Interstate 80 east of Highway 83 that was used in the formation of Mid-Plains Community College. His hobbies included golf, hunting, and football and he married Louise Ottenstein in May 1920 at North Platte, Nebraska
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Memorial Stadium (Lincoln)
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Memorial Stadium is located on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. It is the home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, at the conclusion of the 2016 season, the stadium holds an ongoing NCAA record of 354 consecutive sellouts, which began in 1962. When full, Memorial Stadium holds more people than any Nebraska city except Omaha, because most fans wear red apparel, the stadium is referred to as the Sea of Red on game days. In the fall of 1922, a drive for $430,000 in funds to build a new stadium was undertaken by faculty, students, alumni. Later, the stadium would also honor the 3,839 Nebraskans who died in World War II, the 225 in Korea, construction was completed in just over 90 working days, Memorial Stadium was dedicated on October 20,1923. Southwest, Not the victory but the action, Not the goal but the game, northwest, Courage, Generosity, Fairness, Honor, In these are the true awards of manly sport. Northeast, Their Lives they held their countrys trust, They kept its faith, a statue of Nebraska former coach Tom Osborne and former Nebraska quarterback Brook Berringer can be found outside the north side of the stadium. Prior to the move to Memorial, finals for each class were contested at local sites. Memorial Stadium has undergone several phases of expansion and renovation since its original construction, in its original configuration, the stadium consisted of stands on the east and west sidelines. It was modeled after Ohio States Ohio Stadium and had a capacity of around 31,000. A series of four additions between 1964 and 1972 enclosed the stadium by adding seats above the north and south end zones, more than doubling Memorial Stadiums seating capacity to nearly 74,000. A major renovation in 1999 added 42 luxury boxes above the west stands, the stadium was rededicated, reflecting Nebraskas rise to national prominence during his 34 years as an assistant coach and head coach, the stadium almost doubled in size during his tenure. In 2004, construction began to renovate and expand the north end zone stands, Memorial Stadium now features an additional 13 luxury boxes above the north stands called the Skyline Suites and an additional 6,000 seats, increasing seating capacity to 81,067. Nebraska has the twentieth-largest video screen in college football, at 33 feet tall, concurrently, ribbon boards stretching the length of the field were installed along the east and west balconies of the stadium. This expansion was built on the stadiums east side, and includes 3,300 general admission seats,2,119 new club seats and 38 additional skybox suites. The expansion totals more than 6,000 new seats and brings the number of private suites inside the stadium to 101. The original east facade of the stadium, plus Gate 20, was preserved within a new entrance lobby, the creation of the first standing room only area in Memorial Stadium was also built, an area available for companies and private parties to host events on a game-to-game basis. In addition, the university created a 20, 000-square-foot cutting-edge athletics research facility in addition to another 20,000 square feet dedicated to campus research, the expansion project was completed and dedicated on August 22,2013
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Herbie Husker
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Herbie Husker is the oldest current mascot of the University of Nebraska-Lincolns sports teams. Herbie was created by Lubbock, Texas, artist Dirk West and first appeared on the cover of the Huskers media guide in 1974, soon after, he became the universitys official mascot. Herbie has gone through a few makeovers, the most recent coming before the 2003 college football season, until 2003, he was dressed in denim overalls, a red cowboy hat emblazoned with a large N, and had an ear of corn in his pocket. After the 2003 makeover, he now dons a red hat, red workshirt, blue jeans. This was done to update the appearance of the states agricultural workers. During halftime of the 2006 Capital One Bowl, Herbie was named National Mascot of the year for 2005, in January 2005, Herbie starred in his own childrens book, Hello, Herbie Husker
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Lil' Red
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Lil Red is one of two mascots representing University of Nebraska–Lincolns athletic teams. Lil Red is the newest mascot, having been created for the 1993 season after a statewide contest run for that purpose, associate athletic director Dr. Barbara Hibner was the driving force behind Lil Red. The mascot is currently produced by Signs & Shapes International, Inc. based in Omaha, due to the mascots incredibly light weight, the larger-than-life mascot can run, dance, crowd surf and shake hands. The costume was designed to appeal to children and has become a piece of Nebraska athletics culture. Lil Red was designed in a state–wide contest that was organized by Dr. Barbara Hibner to find a design that could mainly represent the schools volleyball team. Since Lil Reds introduction, he has come to represent other sporting events alongside Herbie Husker, such as football
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University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band
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The University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band is the marching band of the University of Nebraska. It performs at all football games. Founded in 1879, the Marching Red is one of the oldest, the band consists of 300 students from over 60 different academic majors from across the campus. Thanks to the success of the Husker football program, the Marching Red is also one of the most traveled bands in the country having participated in all of the bowl games. On November 19,2011, the Cornhusker Marching Band performed at Michigan Stadium in front of the largest audience ever to watch the band, the Cornhusker Band has also made several international tours, visiting continental Europe and Ireland. The Cornhusker Marching Band has been the recipient of many honors over the years, the Sudler Trophy is presented biannually to a college marching band program that has demonstrated particular excellence over a period of years. A ballot of all NCAA marching band directors selects the trophy recipient, the Marching Red has been seen by millions of viewers on television, and appeared on the Kennedy Center stage as part of the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. In 2005 the band was featured on the NBC prime time series Tommy Lee Goes to College and in 2007 on ABCs Extreme Makeover, Home Edition. On October 13,2007, a crew from the comedy film, Yes Man. To become a member, each person must pass an audition in the Spring or attend a mini-camp as is the case sometimes for percussion. After first cuts, a marching and music memorization audition follows in the Fall semester. On football game days at home, the band rehearses for two hours in Memorial Stadium beginning five-and-a-half hours before kickoff, an hour-and-a-half before kickoff, the band meets in full uniform at Westbrook Music Building for warm-up and final instructions. Following is an outdoor concert at Kimball Recital Hall and the traditional march to the stadium. It is customary before the playing of Hail Varsity. to sing Band Song, throughout the history of the Marching Red, the Band has performed many fight songs at football games, most of which can be heard during the pregame performance. The band maintains the tradition of playing the teams fight song during its pregame performance. The Cornhusker Marching Bands Pregame Spectacular begins with a drum cadence, when the drum cadence changes pace, the band runs onto the field as the announcer exclaims Now is the time for the Marching Red Experience – Presenting the University of Nebraska Cornhusker. As the band plays fanfares to the crowd, the announcer proclaims This is the Pride of All Nebraska, before introducing the drum majors and twirlers. Its Football Saturday in Memorial Stadium, and there is NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA, the Cornhusker Marching Bands Pregame Performance contains, Dear Old Nebraska U The visiting teams fight song The Star Spangled Banner Mr
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Blackshirts (American football)
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The Blackshirts are the first-string defensive unit players for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. The term originally dates back to the early 1960s and refers to the practice jerseys that Nebraskas first-string defenders began to wear during practice. Assistant Coach Mike Corgan was tasked with obtaining the new jersey pullovers, the sporting goods store he visited reportedly gave him a good deal on black, because the color had apparently not been selling well. The new jerseys were then assigned to be worn by the Nebraska defensive players during practice, quickly identifying starting defensive players by the black jerseys they wore on the field made coaching them much more efficient. The unmarked black jerseys were collected each day for laundering and then redistributed during the next practice, after a time, the black jerseys were only given to the defensive players who practiced and performed well. There probably wasnt a day when we didnt make switches, said George Kelly, long-time sports information director Don Bryant credits much of Blackshirt mystique to Coach Kelly, who was often heard yelling and exhorting the Blackshirts during practices and scrimmages. The choice of black to bring about the name Blackshirts was not intentional, said Coach Kelly in later years, Honestly, it was an accident of availability. Blackshirts are awarded to defensive starters and other key defensive players, besides the black practice jerseys, which today have the players name and number imprinted on them, the Blackshirts also have a black circle on the back of their helmet. These players will often cross their arms in an X across their chests, representing the skull and crossbones and this is called Throwing the Bones. The defensive players not awarded a Blackshirt wear red practice jerseys, the student section at Memorial Stadium, Lincoln is named the Boneyard after the Blackshirts. The Blackshirts logo and throwing the bones motion is often displayed there, on October 16,2007, the defensive players and coaches made a joint decision to remove the Blackshirts. The first player to remove his Blackshirt was Senior captain Zackary Bowman, on November 11,2008, the Blackshirts were given back to the eleven defensive starters by new Head Coach Bo Pelinis staff, three days after a win against a strong Kansas Jayhawks football team. The win also made the 2008 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team bowl-eligible
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Cy Sherman
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Charles Sumner Cy Sherman was an American journalist and is known as the father of the Cornhuskers after giving the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team the name Cornhuskers in 1899. At his suggestion in 1936, Associated Press sports editor Alan J. Gould created the first AP Poll for ranking college football teams, at his death he was called by the Star the Dean of American Sportswriters. Charles Sumner Sherman was born in Villisca, Iowa on March 10,1871 to Charles Wheelan Sherman and his father was a civil war veteran and newspaper publisher and editor. He was born in Richland County, Ohio on June 6,1841 and his mother was born in Marion County, Iowa on August 26,1842, and died in Plattsmouth, Nebraska on May 31,1900. Sherman first attended schools in Glenwood, Iowa, before his family moved to Plattsmouth, in Plattsmouth, his father was the publisher of the Plattsmouth Tribune, and Sherman spent time in its shop in where he learned printing. Sherman married Nancy Ada Moore in Davenport, Iowa on August 16,1893, Nancy was born in Davenport on October 31,1870. During the 1890 through 1899 seasons, the Huskers had been called multiple names including Treeplanters, Rattlesnake Boys, Antelopes, Old Gold Knights, the school was changing its school colors to scarlet and cream in 1892 and the Old Gold Knights no longer made sense. Sherman thought the name Bugeaters was unglamorous and was tired of referring to the Nebraska teams with that name, Sherman was writing for the Nebraska State Journal starting in about 1898, and in 1899 was the first to use the name Cornhuskers to refer to Nebraska. He did so frequently in his columns and University journalism professor Alvin Watkins Jr. made a push for its adoption on campus and it was a successful effort and Cornhuskers would become the only used name for the team starting in 1900. The student yearbook changed its name to the “Cornhusker” in 1907, when the Nebraska legislature passed a bill naming Nebraska the Cornhusker State in 1946, Sherman received the pen used to sign the bill. In August 1913, Sherman moved to Red Lodge, Montana where he became editor and part owner of the Red Lodge Picket, Sherman played a role in advocating Stechers career, which increased the wrestlers prominence. Later in the year, Sherman was credited with discovering Earl Caddock from Anita, Sherman refereed a match between Caddock and Stecher in April 1917 in Omaha. Caddock won the match, and Shermans work was controversial when he disallowed a fall when Caddock had nearly pinned Stecher but had his feet off the mat. Later that year Sherman organized athletic shows in Lincoln to raise money to support Linolns Western Baseball League team, at one show Fred Fulton boxed, while Caddock wrestled at the other. Boxers Mike and Tommy Gibbons were also part of the affair, in 1935, AP sports editor Alan J. Gould declared a three way tie for national champion in football between Minnesota, Princeton, and Southern Methodist. Minnesota fans protested, and a number of Goulds colleagues led by Sherman suggested he create a poll of sports editors instead of using his own list. As an writer, Shemans column in the Star was for a time called Brass Tacks and he was known as an advocate for sportsmanship and opposed commercialization and excess recruiting in the college game. As early as the 1910s, Sherman was involved in minor baseball in Lincoln
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Flea Kicker
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The final minutes of the game were seen by many people on ABC, after other regional games ended. The Cornhuskers, who had won national championships for the 1994 and 1995 seasons, went into the game with an 8–0 record and they had only given up seven points in their last three games and had beaten the Tigers eighteen straight times. The Tigers were unranked with a 6–3 record, and in the history, had never beaten a No.1 ranked team. The Huskers took possession from a punt after Missouri failed to convert a first down on their own 33-yard line with 1,02 left, in less than a minute, the Huskers moved the ball 55 yards. The Huskers were on the Missouri 12-yard line with seven seconds left when Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost threw a pass intended for wingback Shevin Wiggins. The ball hit Wiggins directly in the chest near the goal line, the ball immediately shot down and hit a Missouri safety in the foot and popped back in the air. Then Missouri safety Julian Jones tackled Wiggins as time expired, as Wiggins was pulled to the ground, his leg popped up, kicking the ball into the air for a second time. Cornhuskers receiver Matt Davison leaped for the ball, his hands scraping the turf as he managed to make the catch in the endzone for a touchdown, Missouri fans stormed the field in celebration, thinking they had won. The play could have resulted in a 15-yard penalty if officials had considered the kick intentional, instead, they ruled the catch a touchdown. Once fans were cleared from the field, Kris Brown kicked the point for Nebraska to send the game into overtime. In OT, Frost ran for a touchdown, and Jones was sacked on 4th, Missouri finished the season 7–5 with a loss to Colorado State in the Holiday Bowl. The Tigers did not defeat the Cornhuskers until 2003, ending a 24-game losing streak in the series. After the game, Wiggins claimed to have kicked the ball intentionally to keep the play alive and he also at various times and in later interviews claimed to have been trying to kick the ball back to himself for a catch. Regardless, and unfortunately for the Tigers, the outcome of the game could not be changed after the fact, furthermore, the rules only allowed officials to establish intent to kick only as they could determine clearly on the field of play. Although Nebraska dropped to No.3 in the AP Poll the following week, they were still undefeated, the Cornhuskers defeated Iowa State and Colorado in the last two games of the regular season and beat Texas A&M 54–15 in the Big 12 Championship Game. Nebraska went on to defeat Peyton Manning and No.3 Tennessee 42–17 in the Orange Bowl to finish the season 13–0, the Cornhuskers had a No.1 ranking in the Coaches Poll, giving them a third national championship in four seasons. However, they had to split the championship with the 12–0 Michigan Wolverines who defeated No.8 Washington State 21–16 in the 1998 Rose Bowl, the Flea Kicker was ranked No.11 on The Best Damn Sports Show Periods list of Top 50 Amazing Catches. The Flea Kicker was also being recreated for the Fox Sports Net program Sport Science in an episode called Bet You Cant Do It Again, missouri–Nebraska football rivalry Fifth Down Game
