1903-04: Intercollegiate football comes under fire at a meeting of the Nebraska Teachers' Association, but Nebraska's James Ingersoll Wyer, the university's librarian and a member of the Athletic Board, comes to its defense.

1918-19: Halfback Paul Dobson is elected captain of the 1919 Cornhuskers.

«1923-24: The stress of a tough year takes its toll on Nebraska coach Fred Dawson, who is recuperating in Colorado from a “nervous breakdown” suffered at the end of the season.

1928-29: Nebraska’s Ed “Blue” Howell scores two of the three touchdowns in the East-West Shrine game in San Francisco.

1933-34: George Sauer does it all in the East-West Shrine game, scoring the game’s only touchdowns and intercepting a pass to set up one of the scores. Also, Nebraska coach Dana X. Bible defends college football from criticism by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace.

1938-39: Former Husker quarterback Willard "Dutch" Witte resigns after six seasons as head coach at Wyoming. Also, the wife of John Westover and two other people are killed in a car crash, and the former Husker star is injured.

1943-44: Former Husker Bob DeFruiter scores on a 20-yard pass play as the East and West Shrine Game teams battle to a 13-13 tie.

1948-49: In search of a coach, Nebraska gets set to interview Oregon’s Jim Aiken, whose Ducks went 9-2 in 1948, including a Cotton Bowl appearance.

2003-04: Five weeks into Steve Pederson's search for a new head football coach, Arkansas’ Houston Nutt says no.

2018-19: Nebraska is No. 19 in Athlon's early top 25 for the 2019 season.