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This week in
Husker history

The week of Dec. 4-10, looking back in five-year intervals
 
1891: Nebraska ends its season with a 32-0 drubbing of Doane. Also, NU's first conference begins to form.
 
1901: The football program turns a $4,000 profit on revenues of $7,000.
 
1911: Nebraska declines to play in a proposed New Year's game in Seattle against a Washington alumni team.
 
1916: A movement is afoot in Omaha to boycott Nebraska football unless at least one game per season is played in that city.
 

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«1931: Blanked for the first 45 minutes of play, the Huskers break loose for three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to defeat Colorado State in Denver, 20-7. Lewis “Bullet” Brown's punt return for a touchdown — his third in four games — covered 82 yards and capped Nebraska's scoring. | AP | LJS: 1, 2 | Stats | Play-by-play: 1, 2, 3
 
1946: Attendance at Nebraska's regular-season games sets a program record of 309,559.
 
1951: Bill Glassford is mentioned as a possible candidate for head coach at his alma mater, Pitt, but the Husker coach says he's staying in Lincoln.
 
1956: Guard Jim Murphy is the iron man of the team, logging nearly 43 minutes of playing time per game.
 
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«1961: Hank Foldberg visits Lincoln and emerges as a likely successor to Bill Jennings as head coach.
 
1966: UPI names Wayne Meylan the Big Eight Player of the Year. Meanwhile, Bob Devaney lists the 57 players on the travel squad for the Sugar Bowl.
 
1971: The Huskers wrap up a 12-0 regular season with a 45-3 romp at Hawaii.
 
1976: Richard Berns rushes for a school record 211 yards as Nebraska rolls over Hawaii, 68-3. Also, former Husker assistant Carl Selmer ends his two-year run as Miami's head coach.
 
1981: Passed over for coach-of-the-year honors in the past, Bob Devaney is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, Tom Osborne's two-loss Huskers still have national championship hopes.
 
1996: Texas uses a daring fourth-down pass from its own 28 yard line to down the Huskers in the first-ever Big 12 championship game, 37-27.
 
2001: Husker quarterback Eric Crouch becomes the school's third Heisman Trophy winner, and Nebraska receives a controversial berth in the BCS championship game against Miami.
 
2006: Former Nebraska fullback Andra Franklin, who played in the Super Bowl and Pro Bowl as a Miami Dolphin, dies at age 47.
 
2016: Donté Williams is hired as an assitant coach, and the Huskers learn they will play Tennessee in the Music City Bowl.