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This week in
Husker history

The week of Nov. 30 - Dec. 6, looking back in five-year intervals
 
1894: After witnessing a well-attended Iowa-Nebraska game, the Omaha Bee sees college football as something that just might catch on in Nebraska.
 
1899: The first decade of Nebraska football comes to a close on a muddy field in Omaha, where Nebraska suffers a “wretched” 12-0 loss to Grinnell.
 
1909: There's hope for adding a Nebraska-Michigan game in Omaha to the 1910 schedule. (It wouldn't pan out, but the teams would play in 1911 in Lincoln and 1917 in Ann Arbor.)
 
Halligan
In 1914, tackle Vic Halligan became NU’s first three-time all-conference selection and its first All-American.
 
«1914: Nebraska players make up more than half of the all-conference team.
 
1944: The Huskers fall to Big Six champion Oklahoma, 31-12, in a game that saw the Sooners hold Nebraska to minus-11 yards in the first half.
 
1964: Nebraska chooses Brownsville, Texas, as the site for its early training for the Cotton Bowl game against Arkansas.
 
1984: Auburn's upset loss to Alabama means LSU will be the Huskers' Sugar Bowl opponent.
 
1994: Tom Osborne says he expects quarterback Tommie Frazier, sidelined since September, to play in the Orange Bowl against Miami.
 
1999: Avenging a turnover-filled loss in Austin in the regular season, the Huskers throttle Texas, 22-6, in the Big 12 championship game.
 
2004: Turner Gill calls it quits after 13 years on the Husker staff.
 
2009: A dominating performance by defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh isn't quite enough as Texas advances to the BCS title game with a controversial 13-12 win over Nebraska in the Big 12 championship game.
 
2014: After seven seasons at the helm, coach Bo Pelini is fired by Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst, and Oregon State's Mike Riley is Eichorst's surprising choice to replace Pelini.
 
2019: Wan’Dale Robinson is a first-teamer on the Pro Football Focus national All-Freshman team.