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Understood, but he was injured for part of the 84 season (after backing up Rozier/Craig his So/Jr years) and Doug DuBose exploded onto the scene. Amazing - they were both 1st Team All Big 8; Smith 2nd Team All American and DuBose HM All American (even though he actually out-rushed Smith and was the only 1000 yd rusher). Those were some good times indeed!Benning and Childs for sure. Smith was a 2nd team All American so I wouldn't classify him as a career backup.
Its kind of amazing to think about, actually. Go back to 1977 and we had an amazing string of great backs. The backups either became the next guy on that list or really weren't much to remember. Short of a dry spell between 2005 and 2008, and our current one that started after Ameer graduated, that is an amazing run of memorable running backs.
I know he may not qualify but Ozigbo kept being relegated to backup status and that guy just always got yards. He ran hard and took advantage of his opportunities. The true sign of a guy who didn’t throw in the towel and was finally rewarded.
I've watched a lot of Youtube videos of old Husker games lately. Man we had a lot of great backs that didn't get to see much time. A few that stood out to me were:
Jay Sims - Dude had speed & vision, just had way too much firepower in that room.
George Achola - I realize it was in mop up time, but man he looked the part and broke off quite a few good runs on some of the videos I watched. Didn't really remember him until I watched a few games
Roger Craig and Doug DuBose would be my top 2..
No, no, no ! Not true !Jeff Kinney backed up Joe Orduna in 1970.
No, no, no ! Not true !