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FIRSTS:

• The first field that Nebraska played and practiced on, Nebraska Field, was designed by civil engineering students.
  
  
• The first Black athlete at Nebraska was George Flippin, a medical student who eventually started a hospital in Stromsburg, NE.
  
  
• The first Nebraska game was played against the YMCA of Omaha, they won 10-0.
  
  
• The first Bowl game played by Nebraska was in 1941, unfortunately they lost 21-13 to Stanford and their new "T" formation.
  
  
• In the first Associated Press Poll, in 1936, Nebraska finished ninth.
  

RECORDS SET :

• The largest crowd to ever watch a Nebraska Football Game live was in 1941 at the Rose Bowl. 92,000 fans watched Stanford and Nebraska compete in Pasadena, California.
  
  
• Bummy Booth's 1902 Cornhusker football team was not only undefeated, but unscored upon the entire season.
  
  
• Ewald "Jumbo" Stiehm, has the highest winning percentage of all Nebraska Coaches who coached for a season or more, .913.
  

PLAYERS:

• The only Nebraska player to be in both the College Football Hall of Fame, and the NFL Hall of Fame is Guy Chamberlain.
  
  
• Ray Richards, one of the All-Americans from 1934 was a medical oddity with his heart on his right side and his appendix on his left.
  
  
• After suffering a serious shoulder injury, Lloyd Cardwell, The Wild Hoss of the Plains, couldn't throw, so he excelled in running. He ran so well that he almost made it to the 1936 Olympics as a track .
  
  
• Forrest Behm, was burned so badly as a child that it wasn't until his first year of college that he had full use of his leg, yet he went on to become an All-American and played on the 1940 Rose Bowl team.
  
  
• Harvey Rathbone scored 6 touchdowns in each of two games in 1910.
  
  
• In 1924 Knute Rockne, coach of the Notre Dame came to the Nebraska locker room to congratulate Ed Weir on a game well played.
  
  
• The first All-American for Nebraska was Vic Halligan.
  

LITTLE KNOWN:

• In 1897 there was a bill introduced into the legislature to ban the sport of football in Nebraska.

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