Football

Tight End Thomas Fidone II was the second Husker to hear his name called on Saturday as the New York Giants took him with the third pick of the seventh round, 219th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft. https://twitter.com/Giants/status/1916247148351377479 The 6-foot-6,...

Nebraska defensive lineman Ty Robinson went off the board to the Philadelphia with the ninth pick of the fourth round, 111th overall, in the 2025 NFL Draft on Saturday. https://twitter.com/Eagles/status/1916170354105450993 Robinson is the first Husker to hear his name...

Go to X, or TikTok, or Facebook, wherever you’re comfortable on social media, and search for “Jacob Bower.” You’ll easily find the post-football-practice session during which Nebraska football coach Matt Rhule announces Bower will be placed on scholarship. After a...

Early in the third quarter of the 1995 Orange Bowl, undefeated and top-ranked Nebraska football trailed once-beaten and third-ranked Miami 17-7. The Hurricanes scored on a 44-yard Frank Costa touchdown pass less than 2 minutes into the second half. Now rewind to...

Riley Van Poppel had praise for his new position coach, Terry Bradden, during Tuesday’s Nebraska football media availability. “Something he tells us all the time, ‘Energy is contagious,’” said Van Poppel. If Van Poppel is an example, Bradden is right. Van Poppel...

Oklahoma was 6-4 when it played host to Nebraska football for a Black Friday game, Nov. 25, 1994. As usual, however, Tom Osborne took nothing for granted, even though Nebraska was 11-0 and top-ranked in both major polls — with a chance to win the Big Eight title...

Iowa State was 0-8-1, Nebraska football 10-0 and top-ranked, when the teams met in Ames, Cyclone Stadium-Jack Trice Field, in mid-November 1994. Again, the Cyclones were winless with one tie. But Nebraska led only 14-12 going into the fourth quarter. The game was...

​Last Sunday’s newsletter was about Nebraska’s sixth-year quarterback Jalyn Gramstad, known to teammates and coaches as “Grandad,” the “old man.” This week’s is another, but first . . . ​Return to 2019. Among the popular movies were “Knives Out” and “Once Upon a Time...

After defeating second-ranked Colorado and climbing to the top of the Associated Press rankings, Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne was concerned about a Husker letdown against Kansas in early November 1994. “I didn’t have the feeling before the game that we were...

Jalyn Gramstad is “Grandad” to his Nebraska teammates. You’ve no doubt seen that on social media. It was among several light moments during offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen’s news conference Thursday. “Jalyn Gramstad is ... (we) call him ‘Grandad,’” Holgorsen...

Last week’s Hail Varsity Historical included predictions by Missouri players of Colorado winning against the Huskers the following Saturday, Nov. 10, 1994. It wasn’t just Missouri predicting a Buffalo victory. Colorado came to Lincoln ranked second by the Associated...

Nebraska football earned no respect from Missouri. After their eighth-consecutive victory in 1994 at Columbia, the undefeated and Associated Press third-ranked Huskers were set to play second-ranked Colorado in Lincoln. But they were getting no respect from Missouri,...

Nebraska, second-ranked, led Kansas State, ninth, 7-6 at halftime in Manhattan in the Huskers’ seventh game of the 1994 season. Sophomore walk-on Matt Turman had directed the one-point lead before giving way to junior Brook Berringer late in the half. Berringer was...