The second half of this game, Nebraska piles up 335 rushing yards in the second half to roll #3 Tennesse and claim a share of the 1997 MNC. Ahman Green goes for 206 yards in his final game as a Husker. The final collegiate game for Tom Osborne,Ahman Green, Scott Frost, Peyton Manning, Grant Wistrom, Jason Peter.
Tom Osborne speaks about his grandfather who was mentored by a traveling minister who was spent four months with his grandfather. The minister encouraged his grandfather to pursue college
I got to hear from Tom Osborne on 9-9-13 at the LR Touchdown Club. I saw him tell a story earlier about his grandfather who grew up in a poor family in Nebraska with an alcoholic dad who had fought in the civil war. Then his life changed dramatically when he took Rev Currens advice and got out of there and went to college like Currens said he should even though no one in his family had ever been to college. Later Osborne’s grandfather graduated from college and seminary and he broke the cycle of alcoholism and Tom Osborne who was the greatest football coach in Nebraska history was the result of that.
Biography of Tom Osborne:
From the vast farmlands of Nebraska
to the halls of Congress to the
Green Zone in Iraq, Tom Osborne has become a legend by serving those
around him and by always being a person of faith. Perhaps no college
football program in history has seen as much success as Osborne’s did
under his watch (255 wins in 25 seasons). But there is much more to
Tom Osborne.
In his career, Tom Osborne played professional football for the
Washington Redskins and the San Francisco 49ers. He was the head
coach of the University of Nebraska
Cornhuskers football team for 25
years. Osborne boasts a 255-49-3 career and school record in 25 years
and 307 games; three national
championships (1994, 1995, 1997); 12 Big Eight Conference
crowns; one Big 12 Crown. Healso took the Huskers to a bowl game every year, continuing
Nebraska’s 29 straight bowls, one of many NCAA records held by Nebraska.
Osborne coached his players to 55 first-team All-America certificates (47 players) won two
Heismans (Johnny Rodgers and Mike Rozier),
had three Lombardi Award winners (Dave
Rimington, Dean Steinkuhler, and Grant Wist
rom), six Outland Trophy winners (Rimington,
Steinkuhler, Will Shields, Zach Wiegert, and Aaron Taylor), one Butkus winner (Trev Alberts),
and a Johnny Unitas Award winner in 1995 (Tommie Frazier).
Osborne announced his retirement as head coach late in the 1997 season and was inducted into
the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999, and
in 2000, he received th
e Jim Thorpe Lifetime
Achievement Award. He was named “coach of th
e decade” by ESPN in 1999 and in 2007 was
voted the “greatest college football coac
h of all time” in an online ESPN poll.
Osborne was
chosen as the 2008 recipient of the American Football Coaches Association’s (AFCA) highest
honor, the Tuss McLaughry Award for the hi
ghest distinction in service to others.
After coaching, Osborne was elected to Congress
in 2000 and served six years in the House as a
Republican from Nebraska’s 3rd congressional
district. In June 2009, the University of
Nebraska announced the 72-year-old Osborne will re
main the Athletic Direct
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