Nebraska Football Jersey History
1982 added a red face.
Nebraska football jersey history. This painting honors the 1965 university of nebraska football team and 66 worn by wayne meylan. History of husker football national championship tradition 1970 1971 1994 1995 1997 heisman tradition retired jerseys nfl tradition huskers. 1 in a new jersey husker top 10 would require a flip of the coin to pick between mike rozier and rich glover both of whom are in the college football hall of fame. Coached by cornhusker icon bob devaney and co captained by mike kennedy and frank solich the 1965 team went undefeated in the regular season before losing to alabama 39 28 in the orange bowl.
46 times preseason 48 times final 730 weeks total stadium. The field hosted its first football game on october 20 1923 and this will be the huskers 96th season at the stadium. Nebraska has had 34 head coaches in the program s history. Names start showing up on jerseys in the early 80s i think on road uniforms first.
Nebraska claims 46 conference championships and five national championships 1970 1971 1994 1995 and 1997 and has won nine other national championships that the school does not claim. Around 1980 the was gone from the sleeve shoulder pad altogether and replaced by an n. This isn t the first time the huskers have worn throwback jerseys. 121 1900 to 2020 record w l t.
You can see from the photo on the left that 10 s jersey is different that 33 s so its hard to tell exactly when some things changed. Big ten big 12 big 8 big 7 big 6 mviaa ind conf. Four of nebraska s five national championship teams included at least one starter from new jersey and three included at least two. 53 bowls 26 27 491 w l major bowls ranked in ap poll.
Nebraska is among the most storied programs in college football history. 207 six past nebraska head coaches have been inducted into the college football hall of fame. 867 371 38 adjusted record w l t. Bible biff jones bob devaney and tom osborne osborne is the program s all time leader in most major categories.
Scott frost has held the position since december 2 2017. 1996 season 1996 orange bowl. Nebraska added to front of jersey in 1999. The second year of the solich era was the first year in which nebraska started to wear this new style round patch.
His 836 career winning. Nebraska had one set of jerseys that had a black addidas emblem where the red triangle shaped logo is attached.