1906: How John met Jeannette: Here’s the unusual story of how former Husker star John Westover met his future wife, a Denver nurse. It was all made possible by a Nebraska player’s plunge into severe delirium after the Cornhuskers’ 1904 game at Colorado. | Full story

1916: The West Coast game scheduled against Oregon State is seen as a plum that will attract more strong candidates to spring drills.

1921: Fred Dawson, former head coach at Columbia and freshman coach at Princeton, is hired as Henry Schulte’s successor as Nebraska’s head coach.

1926: Spring practices begin under second-year coach Ernest E. Bearg.

1946: A revival of the Nebraska-Notre Dame football rivalry, in hiatus since the teams last played in 1925, is in the works for 1947 and ’48.

1956: Spring drills open under new coach Pete Elliott.

1966: Coach Bob Devaney unveils a 118-man roster ahead of the April 1st start of spring drills.

1976: Nebraska football’s departing seniors edge the coaches (plus a few “ringers”) in a basketball game at Lincoln High.

1986: Lawrence Pete’s 500-pound bench press is one of four records set in the Huskers’ post-winter conditioning tests.

2001: Senior quarterback Eric Crouch is on the shelf as Frank Solich’s Huskers open spring practices.

2006: Former Husker quarterback Scott Frost joins the Kansas State staff as a graduate assistant.

2016: CBSSports.com sees Nebraska as a potential playoff Cinderella in 2016.

2021: Tom Osborne is pleased to see the Oklahoma game remain on the fall schedule.