red-grange Stories - Hail to the Orange
Big Ten Countdown 24 - Red Grange Becomes A Legend, Iowa's #24 Nile Kinnick
If you visit Nebraska-oriented web sites looking for information about the Huskers playing against the University of Illinois' Red Grange, you'll find articles about how the Nebraska defense shut him down in 1925, limiting him to 41 yards in a 14-0 Husker win. Fact is, Nebraska faced Grange...
Big Ten Countdown 50: Michigan State Joins, The Old Brass Spittoon, Dick Butkus And Nebraska Has A Winning Season
Today we celebrate 50 days until Nebraska joins the Big Ten. What's interesting about the number 50? Well, Michigan State College officially joined the Big Ten in 1949. Or 1950. Or 1953, depending on which web site you're reading. So, which is it? From a New York Times article dated May 20st,...
RBR Reading Room: Game of My Life
Being at a great Alabama football game gives you a sense of being part of something so much larger. At first you experience being a part of an event along with everyone else there with you and, later, a part of history. Yet as unifying as that shared experience may be for the thousands in the...
Bowl Season: Rooting for the Big Ten Or Sticking with The Big 12 One Last Time?
Things seem rather weird right now. Nebraska is done with the Big 12 football, yet has several months to go before we're officially members of the Big Ten. We still have to get through winter and sprint sports before that happens. Reality is, it's a long ways away yet. The world could explode...
Hail to the Orange Classic.
Its summer time and its the weekend, nothing is usually going on here in the blogosphere. I figure a lazy summer Saturday is as good as any to drag out some of the greatest hits from my blogging past. Hard as it may be to believe, I didn't always have this shiny nice blog here, I used to be a...
Gifts for A Husker Christmas
Christmas is coming! If you’re like me, then you’ll wait up until the last possible moment when everything is gone and then end up with a crappy present for your loved one(s), disappointing them yet again. After the jump I have a bunch of recommendations you can use for your college...
Corn Nation College Pick 'Em Week 11 Winners and Leaders
Here's your weekly update on the Corn Nation Pick 'Em Game. zoomerjoe won this week with a 13-2 record, getting 106 points, and winning the tie breaker score over jfisch18, with the same record, and the same points. Grayhound remains in first place on the year, with RunTheBall in second. Here...
Review: The Galloping Ghost - Red Grange: An American Football Legend
In the 1920s, four athletes stood like giants in a golden age of sport - Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey and Red Grange. With “The Galloping Ghost”, author Gary Andrew Poole delivers an authoritative autobiography of Grange, who was most responsible for the popularization of...
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