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Memorable players, plays, and games in Nebraska football history
- Thread starter Bean
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Single most important play in DONU football history:
1969 DONU 4th down against KU in Lincoln losing to KU 14-17 late in 4th Quarter.
DONU has already lost to Missouri to open Big Eight play, second loss would end hopes for conference championship and after two 6-4 seasons, cause Devaney to lose his job.
Tagge throws a pass way over TE's head but KU is called for pass interference!
KU LB and then HC called for 15 yard unsportsmanlike like conduct penalties and bingo; DONU scores a TD to win.
Leads to winning the rest of the conference games including trouncing OU in Norman 45-14.
Instead of Devaney being fired in 1969, the Husker Dynasty is born.
Clearly the single most important play in school history.
I was there with my father upper deck,East side 10 yard line
1969 DONU 4th down against KU in Lincoln losing to KU 14-17 late in 4th Quarter.
DONU has already lost to Missouri to open Big Eight play, second loss would end hopes for conference championship and after two 6-4 seasons, cause Devaney to lose his job.
Tagge throws a pass way over TE's head but KU is called for pass interference!
KU LB and then HC called for 15 yard unsportsmanlike like conduct penalties and bingo; DONU scores a TD to win.
Leads to winning the rest of the conference games including trouncing OU in Norman 45-14.
Instead of Devaney being fired in 1969, the Husker Dynasty is born.
Clearly the single most important play in school history.
I was there with my father upper deck,East side 10 yard line
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I was there
I'll go as far as to say this game started the run for the National Championship the following year. We were 2-2 going into this game, following 2 less than spectacular seasons in 1967 and 1968. My young self could see us losing to Kansas for the third straight year and another bad year.
Instead, this game started the no-loss streak through the 1971 season. What a wonderful stretch in Nebraska football history.
Those 2 were used to having great OL in front of them. They never had to second guess where they were going. Just GO.
Hmmm, that's interesting about Verne Lundquist. I swear he called a Nebraska bowl game on CBS maybe during the Callahan era.
What a game that was. Here's some not-so-trivial trivia about that photo.
A misidentified moment from the Game of the Century
This iconic photo has long been labeled as Jeff Kinney's winning TD against Oklahoma in 1971. Upon video review, it shows a different play.
www.huskermax.com
My son and I were at both of these games.
We were sitting amongst a bunch of very nice ND fans in South Bend and in OT when our WB came in motion back towards the line of scrimmage, I turned to one of them and said: "game over".
Crouch scored easily on option of left end, what a great game and the best away crowd I have ever been around.
