July 22

1796 - The city of Cleveland, Ohio was founded by Gen. Moses Cleveland.

1862 - President Abraham Lincoln presented to his Cabinet a preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.

1933 - Wiley Post became the first person to fly solo around the world.

1934 - Bank robber John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie "Manhattan Melodrama."

1937 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" scheme was rejected by the U.S. Senate, an attempt to add more justices to the Supreme Court.

1942 - The Nazis began transporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka concentration camp.

1942 - Gasoline rationing involving the use of coupons began along the Atlantic seaboard.

1943 - American forces led by Gen. George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily, during World War II.

1975 - Congress restored Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's U.S. citizenship.

1991 - Police in Milwaukee arrested Jeffrey Dahmer, who later confessed to murdering 17 men and boys (Dahmer ended up being beaten to death by a fellow prison inmate).

1992 - Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. (He was slain by security forces in December 1993.)

2003 - Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Ousay, were killed in a firefight.

2011 - Anders Breivik, a self-described "militant nationalist," massacred 69 people at a Norwegian island youth retreat after detonating a bomb in nearby Oslo that killed eight others in the nation's worst violence since World War II.

2013 - Prince George of Cambridge is born, now second in line of succession to the British throne and the first child of Prince William and his wife Catherine.

2015 - A federal grand jury indictment charged Dylann Roof, the young man accused of killing nine Black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, with 33 counts including hate crimes that made him eligible for the death penalty. (Roof would become the first person sentenced to death for a federal hate crime; he is on death row at a federal prison in Indiana.)

2022 - Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Birthdays
25 - Madison Pettis (actress)
28 - Ezekiel Elliott (football player)
29 - Jaz Sinclair (actress)
33 - Camila Banus (actress)
36 - Keegan Allen (actor)
45 - A.J. Cook (actress)
46 - Parisa Fitz-Henley (actress)
49 - Franka Potente (actress)
51 - Colin Ferguson (actor)
54 - Diana Maria Riva (actress)
56 - Irene Bedard (actor)
58 - Shawn Michaels (professional wrestler)
59 - David Spade (actor/comedian)
60 - Rob Estes (actor)
60 - Joanna Going (actress)
62 - Keith Sweat (singer)
63 - John Leguizamo (actor)
68 - Willem Dafoe (actor)
76 - Don Henley (singer)
76 - Albert Brooks (actor)
77 - Mireille Mathieu (singer)
77 - Danny Glover (actor)
80 - Bobby Sherman (actor/singer)
82 - George Clinton (singer)
85 - Terrence Stamp (actor)

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Today in Sports History - July 22

1909 - Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) stole three bases in one inning.

1962 - Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

1990 - Greg LeMond win his third Tour de France.

1997 - Pitcher Greg Maddux throws a complete game on just 76 pitches.

2005 - The NHL's board of governors voted 30-0 to pass the cap-based collective bargaining agreement that the players' association had approved the previous day. The deal ended the 310-day lockout that wiped out the 2004-05 season.

2018 - For the first time in nine years, Tiger Woods took the lead in the final round of a major golf tournament before finishing in a tie for sixth at the British Open; the event was won by Francesco Molinari in the first-ever major golf championship for an Italian.

2018 - Seattle basketball guard Sue Bird plays in her record 500th WNBA game (she would finish her career with 508 games).

2019 - Forbes names the Dallas Cowboys the world's most valuable professional sports franchise, valued at $5 billion; the New York Yankees were second at $4.6 billion and Real Madrid third at $4.2 billion.

2022 - World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon announced his retirement amid an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the flamboyant businessman and showman who transformed a small wrestling company into a global entertainment business. (McMahon would return to the WWE board six months later.)

It's the off-season so why not?

I'm going with Verduzco although Austin can make a case. Who ya got?

@HBK4life wrote - It helps but roommates suck. You can't walk around straight shirt cocking it. Winnie the Pooh style.😂


When I read this I immediately thought of the Beastie Boys lyrics from "That's It That's All"


Cause I'm a freaky streaker like Winnie the Pooh
A T-shirt and no pants and I dance the boogaloo

One of the all time greats.

I'm able to confirm with a source that Trent Burns, a 7-foot-2, 220-pound center in the Class of 2024 out of Houston (Texas) PSAT Academy, will officially visit Nebraska over the Sept. 29 weekend. He officially visited Purdue in June.


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I've been told an Itinerary hasn't been set yet, but Nebraska football hosts Michigan on Sept. 30, so maybe Burns will check that out and see what a full — and loud — stadium looks like. Burns moves very well for 7-foot-2 and shows promise as a 3-point shooter, too.


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Here's a quick rundown of what Evan Cooper said about several players in his defensive backs room during a recent interview from Huskers Radio Network.

July 21

1861 - Confederate forces won victory at Bull Run in the first major battle of the Civil War at Manassas, Virginia.

1873 - The first rain robbery west of the Mississippi River was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang.

1925 - In the "Monkey Trial," John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee state law by teaching the theory of evolution.

1944 - American forces landed on Guam during World War II, capturing it from the Japanese some three weeks later.

1949 - The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.

1954 - The Geneva Conference concluded with accords dividing Vietnam into northern and southern entities.

1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the ascent stage of the lunar module for docking with the command module.

1970 - The Aswan High Dam opened in Egypt.

1972 - The Irish Republican Army carried out 22 bombings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing nine people and injuring 130 in what became known as “Bloody Friday.”

1998 - Astronaut Alan Shepard died in Monterey, California at age 74.

1999 - U.S. Navy divers found and recovered the bodies of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette, in the wreckage of Kennedy's plane in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

2002 - WorldCom filed for bankruptcy, then the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

2008 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s top war crimes fugitives, was arrested in a Belgrade suburb by Serbian security forces. (He was sentenced by a U.N. court in 2019 to life imprisonment after being convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.)

2009 - Prosecutors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, dropped a disorderly conduct charge against prominent Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who was arrested by a white officer at his home near Harvard University after a report of a break-in.

2011 - The 30-year-old space shuttle program ended as Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, after the 135th and final shuttle flight.

2013 - Belgium's King Albert abdicated after a 20-year reign; his son Philippe took over as the fractured nation's seventh king.

2016 - Donald Trump accepted the GOP presidential nomination with a speech in which he pledged to cheering Republicans and still-skeptical voters that as president, he would restore the safety they feared they were losing, strictly curb immigration and save the nation from what he said was Hillary Clinton’s record of “death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.”

2017 - White House press secretary Sean Spicer abruptly quit over President Donald Trump’s decision to name financier Anthony Scaramucci as the new White House communications director. Scaramucci announced from the White House briefing room that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who had been Spicer’s deputy, would take over for Spicer. (Scaramucci would be fired on July 31 after 11 days on the job; he had used vulgar language to insult White House aides during a phone call to a reporter.)

2022 - The House Jan. 6 committee made the case in its final hearing that Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election fueled the grisly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The panel delved into 187 minutes in which it said Trump did nothing to stop the violence but instead "gleefully" watched on television.

Birthdays
25 - Maggie Lindemann (singer)
31 - Rachael Flatt (figure skater)
32 - Sara Sampaio (model)
34 - Rory Culkin (actor)
35 - DeAndre Jordan (basketball player)
37 - Betty Gilpin (actress)
37 - Diane Guerrero (actress)
38 - Vanessa Lengies (actress)
42 - Romeo Santos (singer)
42 - Blake Lewis (singer)
42 - Chrishell Stause (actress)
43 - CC Sabathia (baseball player)
45 - Brad Mates (singer)
45 - Josh Hartnett (actor)
45 - Justin Bartha (actor)
49 - Steve Byrne (actor/comedian)
50 - Ali Landry (actress)
51 - Paul Brandt (singer)
53 - Alysia Reiner (actress)
53 - Michael Fitzpatrick (singer)
54 - Emerson Hart (singer)
55 - Brandi Chastain (soccer player)
60 - Greg Behrendt (comedian)
63 - Matt Mulhern (actor)
63 - Lance Guest (actor)
66 - Jon Lovitz (comedian/actor)
75 - Garry Trudeau (cartoonist)
80 - Leigh Lawson (actress)

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Today in Sports History - July 21

1957 - Althea Gibson became the first black woman to win a major U.S. tennis title when she won the Women’s National clay-court singles competition.

1968 - Arnold Palmer became the first golfer to make a million dollars in career earnings after he tied for second place at the PGA Championship.

1973 - Hank Aaron hits his 700th career home run.

1991 - Ferguson Jenkins, Rod Carew, Gaylord Perry, Tony Lazzeri and Bill Veeck are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1996 - Wayne Gretzky signs a two-year contract to play for the New York Rangers.

1998 - Chinese gymnast Sang Lan, 17, was paralyzed after a fall while practicing for the women's vault competition at the Goodwill Games in New York. Spinal surgery 4 days later failed to restore sensation below her upper chest.

2002 - Ernie Els won the British Open in the first sudden-death finish in the event's 142-year history.

2006 - Alex Rodriguez (New York Yankees) collected his 2,000th career hit and became the youngest player to reach the 450 home run mark.

2013 - Phil Mickelson won the British Open, shooting a 5-under 66 to match the best round of the tournament and win his first claret jug.

2013 - Britain's Chris Froome won the 100th running of the Tour de France.

2016 - The NBA moved the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte because of its objections to a North Carolina law that limited anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people.

Today's Husker Hurry Up:

>>> Nebraska VB nets $5 million NIL contribution
>>> Huskers 4-star WR target Gatlin Bair sets commit date
>>> Fred Hoiberg staff moves
>>> First chance to see Jordy Bahl in action

From Nebraska Athletics Communication staff:

Husker softball announced its fall schedule today.

All fall games are open to the public – including the intrasquad scrimmages – with free admission. Fans do not need a ticket to attend the games, which will feature general admission seating. Nebraska returns 16 players from last year’s squad, which played in an NCAA Regional Final and notched a top-20 national finish. The Huskers bring back seven players who started at least 53 games last season.

The fall season also gives Husker fans their first glimpse at Nebraska’s eight newcomers. The group of newcomers includes transfers Bella Bacon (infielder) and Peyton Cody (catcher) along with five freshmen: pitchers Emmerson Cope, Elisa Gulfin and Caitlin Olensky, infielder Samantha Bland and infielder/outfielder Malia Thoms.

The list of newcomers, of course, is headlined by pitcher Jordy Bahl.

Bahl was a two-time first-team All-American and two-time Big 12 Pitcher of the Year at Oklahoma, helping the Sooners to back-to-back national titles in 2022 and 2023 by posting a 44-2 record with a 0.99 ERA. Cody was an all-conference performer at St. John’s who boasts a .316 career average with 29 doubles, 20 home runs and 100 RBIs in 149 games. Bacon started six games as a freshman at Purdue in 2023, batting .250 with five RBIs.

Shortstop Billie Andrews highlights the seven returning starters, as she was a third-team All-American last season after batting .354 with 13 doubles and 16 homers. Returning outfielders Brooke Andrews and Abbie Squier have both earned all-region and all-conference accolades in their careers. Andrews was a first-team All-Big Ten and second-team all-region selection in 2023 after batting .311 with nine doubles, 11 home runs and 45 RBIs. Squier, who has hit .321 with 17 doubles and 13 home runs the past two seasons, was a first-team All-Big Ten and second-team all-region honoree in 2022.

Sydney Gray, a 2022 all-region selection, has started 110 games at third base the past two seasons, producing 98 hits, 15 doubles, 15 home runs and 66 RBIs during that span. At second base, Katelyn Caneda is back for her sophomore season after she led Nebraska with a .366 batting average as a freshman in 2023 en route to first-team All-Big Ten accolades as well as a spot on the Big Ten All-Defensive team.

Rounding out the returning starters are catcher Ava Bredwell and outfielder Caitlynn Neal. The 2022 Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Bredwell boasts a .291 career average and has started 88 games behind the plate the past two seasons. Neal started all 58 games in the outfield in 2023, when she hit .302 and tied for the team lead with 13 doubles while slugging five home runs and driving in 25 runs.

Talia Tokheim (12 starts), Alina Felix (10 starts), Abbey Newlun (7 starts), Dakota Carter (4 starts), Mckinley Malecha (3 starts), Ashley Smetter (1 start) and Haidyn Warner (1 start) also gained starting experience as underclassmen last season. Tokheim hit .359 with 10 extra-base hits in only 39 at bats before her freshman season was cut short due to an injury. Also returning from injury is pitcher Kaylin Kinney, who was limited to eight games last season, during which time she was 1-1 with a 0.84 ERA in 25.0 innings. Joining Kinney as a returning pitcher is Sarah Harness, a two-time all-conference selection at Southern Illinois who 10 games in her first season at Nebraska in 2023 and had the lowest opponent batting average (.230) of any Husker pitcher.

Fall Schedule

Intrasquad Scrimmages (Bowlin Stadium)

Sept. 14 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 21 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 28 5:30 p.m.


Sunday, Oct. 1 (Bowlin Stadium)

York vs. Bellevue 10 a.m.

Nebraska vs. Omaha 12:30 p.m.

Midland vs. UNK 3 p.m.


Saturday, Oct. 7 (Kansas City, Mo.)

2 Opponents TBA at Kansas City Urban Youth Academy


Sunday, Oct. 8 (Bowlin Stadium)

Nebraska vs. Creighton 2 p.m.


Saturday, Oct. 14 (Bowlin Stadium)

Nebraska vs. Colorado State 10 a.m.

Nebraska vs. South Dakota 12:30 p.m.

Colorado State vs. South Dakota 3 p.m.


Sunday, Oct. 15 (Bowlin Stadium)

Nebraska vs. Colorado State 10 a.m.

Nebraska vs. Colorado State 12:30 p.m.

From Nebraska Athletics Communications staff:

Fred Hoiberg has announced several new additions to the Husker basketball support staff for the 2023-24 season.

It is a mixture of old and new faces with promotions of Padyn Borders as Recruiting Coordinator and Michael Bania to Video Coordinator and the additions of Andrew McCabe (Men’s Basketball Head Athletic Trainer), Justin Moore (Graduate Manager), Nihilo Ibarra (Graduate Manager) and Joey St. Pierre (Graduate Manager).

“Padyn and Michael are great additions to our full-time staff,” Hoiberg said. “They have worked their way up in our program as both student managers and graduate managers and have earned the respect of everyone in our program with their work ethic and dedication to making our program better.”

Borders has been promoted to Recruiting Coordinator after spending last season as a graduate manager in the program. In his new role, Borders will help the coaching staff with managing the recruiting landscape for the Huskers with a focus on the NCAA transfer portal, including implementing and managing NU’s recruiting database and assisting with recruiting research. Borders played collegiately at both Central Community College and Peru State before transferring to Nebraska for his final two years of college. He served as a manager during the 2021-22 season and graduated from Nebraska with a degree in business administration in May of 2022.

Bania has been promoted to Video Coordinator after spending last year as a graduate assistant in the Husker program. Bania has been at Nebraska for the last five years as he was a student manager throughout his undergraduate career. Bania, who was NU’s head student manager for two years, has been involved with the video staff in game and practice video breakdowns, opponent scouting and coordinating NU’s student managers. He graduated with a degree in mathematics from Nebraska in May of 2022.

McCabe joins the staff as the Men’s Basketball Head Athletic Trainer. McCabe comes to Nebraska after spending the last five years at Santa Clara University. He worked with the Broncos’ basketball program and assisted the school’s sports medicine department with both internal and external operations. McCabe, who also worked with San Jose State, brings a wealth of sports medicine experience across a diverse range of clinical settings. His work has included serving in roles as an exercise specialist with Olympic Physical Therapy in Bellevue, Wash. and as an athletic trainer/teacher at the high school level in the state of Texas. He has worked directly as the clinical coordinator with the team physician for the Texas Tech Red Raiders and Stanford Children’s Orthopedic and Sports Medicine.

“Andrew comes highly regarded from his time at Santa Clara and has done an outstanding job since joining our staff at the start of summer workouts,” Hoiberg said. “He has worked with R.J. Pietig, who is transitioning to a newly created role in the NAPL, in getting our guys back to full speed.”

Moore joined the Husker basketball staff as a graduate manager for the 2023-24 season. A native of Englewood, Colo., Moore was a student manager for the Huskers over the last two seasons and received his degree in business administration from Nebraska in May of 2023. He will assist in day-to-day operations within the program, including practices, film breakdown and other duties.

“Justin has been in our gym all summer and has a passion to get into coaching and this is a good opportunity to him to take the next step,” Hoiberg said. “After promoting Padyn and Michael, we were fortunate to add Nihilo and Joey. Nihilo has been a student manager at San Diego State under Brian Dutcher for the last three years, while Joey played collegiately for five seasons. Our graduate managers are great assets to our players and staff, and it allows them to gain valuable experience while working on a master’s degree.”

Ibarra comes to Nebraska after spending the past three years as a student manager at San Diego State, including the 2022-23 season as the head student manager. He oversaw the Aztecs’ student managers and assisted in the programs day-to-day operations including pre-and post-practice workouts, helping with film operations and in practice drills. He helped the Aztecs to three straight NCAA Tournament appearances, including a berth in the national title game this past season. Ibarra also worked camps at Stanford, UCLA, TCU, Cal, Florida State and Colorado during his undergraduate years. He graduated with a bachelor’s in kinesiology in May of 2023.

St. Pierre comes to Nebraska after playing collegiately for five seasons at Portland, Milwaukee and Parkside. Last season, he appeared in 20 contests for the Pilots, including nine starts, and averaged 3.2 points and 2.0 rebounds per game. The Spring Grove, Ill., native spent two seasons at Milwaukee, where he started 30 games in 2021-22 and averaged 6.3 points on 59 percent shooting, 5.7 rebounds and 1.4 blocked shots per game, ranking second in the Horizon League in that category. He began his collegiate career at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, where he started for two seasons. St. Pierre graduated from Milwaukee with a bachelor’s in business marketing in 2022.

Just got back from my Wednesday mens golf day. By the end of the back nine the temperature was pushing 115 degrees so let’s just say it was hot.

I was just wondering if anyone has heard anything on Benning? Like when he is going to commit someplace?

congrats to all

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Read it on Twitter so no link.

Nebraska Crossing, 10 years thru 1890.

Salma Hayek!

John Cook and the Huskers have landed a commitment from North Carolina's Ryan Hunter – the No. 35 overall prospect by PrepDig and No. 3 right-side hitter in the 2025 class.

My bosses at Rivals recently shared network-wide numbers from the past year (July 2022 - July 2023) with all of the publishers in the network. Rivals has nearly 100 team sites (97, by my count), and Inside Nebraska finished No. 3 across all sites in terms of traffic/pageviews just on articles alone.

Our numbers and the info/numbers on the other sites featured in the top 10 are all embargoed, so I can't share much else other than the No. 3 ranking and that Inside Nebraska was No. 1 among all team sites covering Big Ten schools. Reason I'm sharing this is simply to say thank you to all of you – our subscribers and those in our message board community – who have flooded to our site over the past year. To finish No. 3 across the entire network in Year 1 as publisher is a damn good feeling. So to recap: the site was No. 3 in the Rivals traffic rankings for 2022-23 and finished No. 12 in the top 20 of best college football message boards in 2022.

Let's go 'head and shoot for that No. 1 ranking in both next year...

I miss those games. I always wanted Oklahoma to have all their top players playing in that game. Same for the Huskers.

To be the best, you have to beat the best. I wanted them at full strength. No excuses.

I still want that versus our opponent every week.

So glad I locked in at 3 percent in 2021. Look at those comparisons from 2 short years ago. Good luck with those rates today.
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Just got mine off their website, $125 is the cheapest. Let's go!!!

Nebraska Football Hall of Fame Announces 2023 Class
Huskers.com

Six Nebraska standouts, a state college representative, and two pioneers from the early 20th century comprise the 2023 class of the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame announced Tuesday.


The 2023 inductees were chosen by the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame, which is sponsored by the Nebraska Chapter of the National Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame. The 2023 Hall of Fame class will be officially inducted at a Sept. 22 banquet in Lincoln and recognized the following day at the Huskers’ home game against Louisiana Tech.

The six former Huskers were selected to the 2023 class by balloting of the Hall of Fame membership, including defensive tackle David Clark (1980s category), linebacker Troy Dumas (1990s category), punter Sam Koch (2000-06 category), defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch (2000-06 category), quarterback Taylor Martinez (2007-13 category) and offensive guard Spencer Long (2007-13 category).

The Nebraska Football Hall of Fame Board also selected a pair of Huskers from the Legends category including head coach W.C. "King" Cole and quarterback Leon G. Warner.

The 2023 class of inductees also includes a state college representative in Dan Klepper, an All-America offensive guard for Nebraska-Omaha in the 1960s.

In addition, the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame will present the Clarence E. Swanson Meritorious Service Award to Lauritzen Family of Omaha, and the Lyell Bremser Special Merit Award to Jim and Sharri Baldanado of Elwood, Nebraska.

Prior to 2015, players must have been either an All-American or first-team all-conference selection to make the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame ballot. Beginning in 2015, Huskers who earned second-team all-conference honors dating back to the expansion of the Big Eight to the Big 12 (1996) and now the 14-team Big Ten, are eligible. Players are not eligible for the ballot until after a 10-year waiting period from the end of their collegiate careers. Major national award winners earn automatic induction, while active NFL players are not on the ballot.

2023 Nebraska Football Hall of Fame Inductees

David Clark, Defensive Tackle (1978-1980)
A three-time letterwinner, Clark had a standout senior season in 1980. The Odessa, Texas, native had 40 tackles including nine for loss as a senior, and also recovered two fumbles. Clark was a first-team All-Big Eight selection as a senior and earned honorable-mention All-America honors.

Troy Dumas, Linebacker (1991-1994)
Dumas was a four-year letterwinner for Coach Tom Osborne, highlighted by an outstanding senior season in 1994. Dumas played his first three seasons in the secondary, before moving to Sam linebacker as a senior when he had 69 tackles, four tackles for loss and seven quarterback hurries. Dumas helped Nebraska rank in the top 10 nationally in all four major defensive statistical categories and he earned first-team All-Big Eight honors for his play.

Sam Koch, Punter (2003-2005)
The school record holder for season punting average, Koch was part of a long line of kicking standouts for the Huskers. The Seward native averaged 46.51 yards per punt in 2005 to earn first-team All-Big 12 honors and was named a semifinalist for the Ray Guy Award. Koch averaged better than 44 yards per punt in his career to rank second in Nebraska history. He went on to a 16-year NFL career with the Baltimore Ravens.

Kyle Vanden Bosch, Defensive End (1997-2000)
Vanden Bosch played in 50 games in his Nebraska career and totaled more than 140 tackles, including 34 tackles for loss and 13 sacks. In his senior season, Vanden Bosch had 17 tackles for loss and 26 quarterback hurries. Vanden Bosch was a two-time second-team All-Big 12 selection and was a three-time Pro Bowl selection during a 12-year NFL career. Off the field, Vanden Bosch was the recipient of the National Football Foundation's Draddy Trophy, commonly referred to as the academic Heisman.

Taylor Martinez, Quarterback (2010-2013)
A record-setting quarterback, Martinez led Nebraska to more than 30 wins as a starting quarterback during his Husker career. Martinez was a first-team All-Big Ten pick as a junior in 2012, when he set a Nebraska season record with 3,890 yards of total offense and accounted for 33 touchdowns. A two-time team captain, Martinez was a freshman All-American and Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Year in 2010. Martinez finished his career with more than 10,000 yards of total offense.

Spencer Long, Offensive Guard (2011-2013)
A three-year starter on the Husker offensive line, Long earned second-team All-America honors as a junior in 2012. With Long manning an offensive guard position, the Huskers ranked among the nation’s top rushing offenses in each of his three seasons as a starter. A team captain as a senior, Long also distinguished himself in the classroom, earning first-team Academic All-America honors as a senior.

State College Inductees

Dan Klepper, Nebraska-Omaha, Offensive Guard (1965-1968)
A four-year letterwinner at Nebraska-Omaha, Klepper was a two-time All-Conference selection for the Mavericks. As a junior he earned NAIA honorable-mention All-America honors and in 1968 he was named to the Associated Press Little-American team. Klepper was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs.

Legends Category

Coach W.C. "King" Cole (1907-1910)
Cole led Nebraska to a 25-8-3 record in four seasons from 1907 to 1910. Cole guided the Huskers to their first two conference championships, winning the Missouri Valley Conference in 1907 and 1910.

Leon G. Warner, Quarterback (1910-1911)
Warner guided Nebraska to the 1910 Missouri Valley Conference title as a quarterback. He was recognized as the top quarterback in the Missouri Valley and is often referred to as the school’s first dual-threat quarterback.