"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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"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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“The cornhuskers wear leather on their hands. There is no let-up to the wind.” -- 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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“It is here the nostrils rush the air to the lungs. It is here oxygen clamors to be let in, and here in the grass I will go alone.” - Carl Sandburg


This is from the poem "Have Me" 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 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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“We have taken the ball from the earth and made it a thing.”



Carl Sandburg from the poem "Leather Leggings" in Cornhusker, 1918

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