1901: Plans are made to start two weeks of training camp on Sept. 1 near South Bend, Neb.

1906: Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews vows a “closer watch” on football players, saying some members of last year’s team had “ceased studying” and spent their evenings “playing poker and drinking.”

1921: Former Nebraska halfback Owen Frank is hired as first assistant to coach Fred Dawson.

1941: Bob Russell gets set for his final season as Nebraska football’s radio play-by-play man. Lyell Bremser, his assistant in the booth, would take over in 1942.

«1946: Fielding Yost, who coached Nebraska in 1898, dies at age 75 in Michigan, where he spent most of his Hall of Fame career.

1951: Thanks to a football profit of over $190,000, the Athletic Department registers a net gain of more than $74,000 for the recently concluded fiscal year. Meanwhile, 54 players are invited to participate in fall camp at Curtis, Neb. (It would be the third and final time that locale was utilized.)

1961: Gale Sayers, believed to be just weeks away from enrolling at Nebraska, dazzles in the North-South Shrine Bowl. | Recruiting saga

1971: Ninety players report as fall camp opens for Bob Devaney’s defending national champions.

1981: Tom Osborne says the 1981 defense might be even better than the previous year’s No. 3-ranked unit.

1996: Tom Osborne confirms the departure of three scholarship players and reluctantly addresses the program’s image issues.

2001: September court dates are set for Dahrran Diedrick and Tony Tata after they land in the slammer on charges of disturbing the peace. A disciplinary decision by Frank Solich is expected soon.

2006: The team captains are elected: Zac Taylor, Adam Carriker and Brandon Rigoni.

2011: The Bubba Starling saga ends as the two-way sports star signs with the Kansas City Royals. Also, Nebraska starts at No. 10 in the Associated Press poll.

2016: The university announces a four-game suspension for receivers coach Keith Williams after his DUI arrest.

2021: Quarterback Adrian Martinez heads into his fourth season at quarterback planning to play like he has nothing to lose.