Half Time entertainment from GoHuskers album. Please post your pictures!

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“I expect our offense to play very well this week. We need to play better. We have to be prepared this week to put points on the board and to do it early and often, because we’re playing a pretty explosive offense with some guys who can hurt you at any time. It was the right formula for that day [Oklahoma Game], but this week we have to be ready to open it up and get ready to come after them and score some points.” --Bo Pelini.

Nebraska Football Head Coach discussing the upcoming Kansas game at the press conference on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. The offense was able to score 31 points against Kansas in Lawrence.

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"There is no end to the plan and the clue, the hunt and the thirst. The motors are drumming, the leather leggings and the leathers coats wait...out to the stars we go." - Carl Sandburg.


No passage describes the hunt and the thirst for a Big 12 Title and living up to Bo Pelini's "standards" better than this poem, Leather Leggings in the Pulitzer prize winning collection, Cornhuskers.

The collection of 100 poems about the everyday life, dreams and hopes of the people of Nebraska was published in 1918 by Henry Holt and Company.


Sandburg was a historian, poet, and folk singer about life on the prairie. Cornhusker shows how well he knew the people of Nebraska, their intense optimism, and undying loyality. We have held this fierce tradition in Nebraska for nearly a century.

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“The long sand is gone and the talk is stars. They circle in a dome over Nebraska.” -- Carl Sandburg


From the book, Cornhusker, this is a phrase from the poem "Sunset" published in 1915. Nearly 100 years later, this describes the feeling of being in Memorial Stadium at night looking at the stars with the State Capitol in the distance.

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“It’s about time we find out how far we’ve come, and move on from there.” – Bo Pelini

The picture above was found in the "postcard collection" at Burlington Antiques, a Huskerlocker sponsor. The photo is from the 1913 Cornhusker football team that went from being a menacing regional threat to a national powerhouse. As Bo Pelini moves into his second year at the University of Nebraska, the fans hope that he will fall into line with other great Nebraska coaches.


The coach of the team pictured above was Ewald O. "Jumbo" Stiehm, hired as coach in 1911. Stiehm's teams (the "Stiehm Rollers) won a remarkable 35-2-3 in five seasons. He remains the best football coach by percentage (.913) in Nebraska school history. The "Stiehm Rollers" won five Missouri Valley Conference championships and had a school-record 34-game unbeaten streak.


During Stiehm's reign, Nebraska produced their first two All-American players in Vic Halligan and Guy "The Champ" Chamberlain.

The 1914 and 1915 teams were considered by most to be the mythical “national champions,” but we cannot count those years on the national championship list because that title did not exist.

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“There’s not a lot of guys like him physically, I promise you that, he’s got a strength that I’ve never seen on the football field. With him, it’s fun to coach.” -- Carl Pelini


Cornhusker Defensive Coach remarks on senior, Ndamukong Suh.

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“They came to work today. There were certain things we wanted to look at; it wasn’t a continuity kind of scrimmage as far as calling the exact same stuff you’d normally call. But they brought their lunch buckets to work today.” -- Barney Cotton


The offensive coach of the Cornhuskers assessment of the three-hour workout where the coaching staff and players are building a solid foundation for the team before the 2009 season kicks off.

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"Becoming a Division I football player, becoming a starting quarterback, winning a national championship as a coach, three national titles, and being undefeated for two and a half years. Coach Osborne started and reached his goal—seeing a great coach doing things the right way and treating people the right way and showing people you can be a nice guy and still win” -- Turner Gill



In “Then Osborne Said to Rozier” by Steven Richardson, published by Triumph Books in 2008, former Cornhusker Quarterback and coach, Turner Gill lists above the rewards of being in Nebraska. Current Buffalo Head Coach Gill had his best year in 1983 when he passed for 1,516 yards and fourteen touchdowns.

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"The red ones...the long ones in stripes, and each of the little black and white checked ones. Keep them: I tell my heart: keep them another year, another ten years; they will be wanted again. They came once, they came easy, they came like a first white flurry of snow in late October. Have a red one...have these yet a year, yet ten years." -- Carl Sandburg.


This is from the poem, "Films" in the Pulitzer prize winning collection, Cornhuskers. The collection of 100 poems about the everyday life, dreams and hope of the people on the plains was published in 1918 by Henry Holt and Company.


Sandburg was a historian, poet, and folk singer about life on the prairie. Cornhusker shows how well he knew the working-class people, their intense optimism, and undying loyality.

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"There is no end to the plan and the clue, the hunt and the thirst. The motors are drumming, the leather leggings and the leathers coats wait...out to the stars we go." - Carl Sandburg.


This is from the poem, Leather Leggings in the Pulitzer prize winning collection, Cornhuskers. The collection of 100 poems about the everyday life, dreams and hope of the people on the plains was published in 1918 by Henry Holt and Company.


Sandburg was a historian, poet, and folk singer about life on the prairie. Cornhusker shows how well he knew the working-class people, their intense optimism, and undying loyality.

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“I am a brother of the cornhuskers who say at sundown: To-morrow is a day.” --Carl Sandburg.

This is from the poem "Prairie" published in the collection titled Cornhuskers in 1918 by Henry Holt and Company. The collection is over 100 poems and won Sandburg a tremendous following across the United States as a man with the "prairie voice."


Husker Locker is a sharing place, a community. We call it "Big Red Soul." We share the entire spirit of what it means to be a Fan. Carl Sandburg's poetry captures this hope and excitement. The poety endures nearly a hundred years later as it paints a true feeling of what it means to be a "Cornhusker!"

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“In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.” -President Theodore Roosevelt


An avid sportsman, President Roosevelt welcomed "the strenuous life"--engaging in daunting physical tests and venturing into hostile locations. Most of the original National Parks and the National Park system were created by Roosevelt.


Hunting in Mississippi during his presidency, a few of the men in Roosevelt's party treed a small black bear and summoned Roosevelt so that he could take the shot. Roosevelt decided that killing the young, trapped bear was not sporting, and spared it. A New York toymaker heard the story, and asked Roosevelt's permission before styling a child's stuffed toy bear as the "Teddy Bear". Roosevelt gave his permission, noting that he did not expect many sales.


After he left office in 1909, Roosevelt went on an African safari that netted many of the specimens that now stock the Smithsonian Institute.

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"We know what we are,but we know not what we may be." -William Shakespeare


This quote is from one of the most famous plays, Hamlet, IV.v.43. This is a powerful message as we look to the coming season and the new young "stars" that might be unfolding in the Husker Nation.

Hamlet was young, full of innocence,thought and sentiment. You get weary sometimes as he tries to "think to hard' about his game plan. However, he does make the tough decisions when the circumstances call for action.

Hamlet means many things to many people. The names can be found in Icelandic legend and means "fool," in celtic it means "furious, and full of action." Shakespeare most likely knew the meanings of the name that he attached to his longest play. Probably most pressing on his mind was the death of his eleven year old son four years earlier. His son was named Hamlet.

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“In the name of the iron-jawed men, I will stand up and say “YES” til the finish is come and gone.” -Carl Sandburg



This is from the poem "Fire Dreams" published in the collection titled Cornhuskers in 1918 by Henry Holt and Company. The collection is over 100 poems and won Sandburg a tremendous following across the United States as a man with the "prairie voice."


Husker Locker is a sharing place, a community. We call it "Big Red Soul." We share the entire spirit of what it means to be a Fan. Carl Sandburg's poetry captures this hope and excitement. The poety endures nearly a hundred years later as it paints a true feeling of what it means to be a "Cornhusker!"

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“I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan.” -- Carl Sandburg


This is from the poem "Prairie" published in the collection titled Cornhuskers in 1918 by Henry Holt and Company. The collection is over 100 poems and won Sandburg a tremendous following across the United States as a man with the "prairie voice."


The poety endures nearly a hundred years later as it paints a true feeling of what it means to be a "Cornhusker!"

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“Cowpunchers, Cornhuskers, shopmen, ready in scarlet and khaki; ballplayers, lumberjacks, ironworkers, ready in scarlet and khaki; a million singing, “I am ready!” -Carl Sandburg


This is from the poem "A Tall Man" published in the collection titled Cornhuskers in 1918 by Henry Holt and Company. The collection is over 100 poems and won Sandburg a tremendous following across the United States as a man with the "prairie voice."


The poety endures nearly a hundred years later as it paints a true feeling of what it means to be a "Cornhusker!"

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