This week in
Husker history The week of Jan. 11-17, looking back in five-year intervals:
1895: Here's what the complete conference schedule looked like: A four-team round robin with a grand total of six games.
Booth | Cole |
«1910: With the return of coach W.C. King Cole for a sixth season still needing formal approval, students unsuccessfully demand that former coach Walter C. Bummy Booth be brought back instead. | Full story
1960: Oklahoma suspects that Nebraska coach Bill Jennings squealed on the Sooners to the NCAA, landing OU on probation. But Jennings says he is being made a scapegoat by his former employer, and the NCAA's executive director backs him up.
1980: Dana X. Bible, the Hall of Fame coach who led the Cornhuskers from 1929 to 1936, dies in Texas at age 88.
2005: Record-setting junior safety Josh Bullocks decides to enter the NFL draft.
2010: Ndamukong Suh accepts the Outland Trophy on an emotional night in Omaha.
2015: There's conjecture that quarterback prospect Joe Burrow might flip to Nebraska after Ohio State's Cardale Jones announces he's returning for his junior season.