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A week in Husker history

1946: A 12-day road trip is planned for season’s end when the Huskers face Oklahoma and UCLA.

1951: Hall of Famer Ed Weir looks back on his biggest thrills as a Husker and describes the “loose tackle” style of play that made him so effective.

1971: Bob Devaney says college football spending should be regulated at the conference level rather than by the NCAA.

1996: Scrutiny of Nebraska football remains intense as the 1996 season approaches.

2001: Dan Alexander is named Big 12 Sportsman of the Year.

2006: The scholarship of incoming freshman Major Culbert is reinstated.

2011: The Nebraska-Iowa game is named the Heroes Game and given trophy game status. Meanwhile, former Husker quarterback Cody Green announces his transfer destination will be Tulsa, where he sees himself as a better fit in the offense.

2016: Nearly 2,000 people gather in Grand Island for the funeral of Sam Foltz.

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The Nebraska football team will hold its annual Fan Day on Saturday, Aug. 8, with the free event scheduled to run from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Hawks Championship Center.

Fan Day is an opportunity for Husker fans to interact with the players early in training camp and before the upcoming season. More information for Fan Day will be available soon, including information on how children can sign up to be a part of Coach Matt Rhule’s autograph line.

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On Tuesday, Pete Nakos of On3 reported that the Millard South (NE) signal-caller partnered with Derby Watch Supply, becoming the first high school athlete to do so to date. The senior has yet to take a snap for the Big Red, but he's already (arguably) becoming the face of a university he has yet to enroll at. Now, it appears he's becoming one of the most marketable as well.

Here's what the partnership means for Taylor ahead of his final year of high school ball, along with a look at the other NIL deals the prep QB has already secured.

Tuesday's announcement was groundbreaking in more ways than one. Not only did Taylor become Derby Watch Supply's first-ever high school ambassador, but he also became the only high school athlete to land a luxury watch partnership via NIL to date. 

Specifically, Taylor partnered with the company to promote the new Rolex Datejust. On Derby Watch Supply's website, watches in the collection are listed anywhere from $6,000 to more than $36,000.

The financial details of the partnership have not been released. Even so, the agreement adds another nationally recognized brand to Taylor's growing list of sponsors, which On3 currently values at an estimated $1 million.


Taylor's Growing List of Brands
This wasn't the 6-foot-3, 200-pound senior's first sponsorship agreement, either. To date, Taylor has partnered with Adidas, Overtime, Subway, Hershey, Gary Young Chevrolet, "and a few other small ones," he told me.

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I've been to Stillwater the last two years for this, Ragweed and Turnpike played at both.  Had a frickin' blast.

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A week in Husker history

1911: Jumbo Stiehm has 11 lettermen to work with as he prepares for his first season in Lincoln.

1921: Preseason camp in Beatrice is called off for fear it would violate Missouri Valley Conference rules.

1936: The Huskers’ Paul Amen and Dow Wilson play in a demonstration baseball game in front of Adolf Hitler and about 100,000 other spectators at the Berlin Olympics.

1941: Three academic casualties compound the Huskers’ roster problems.

«1946: Former Husker star Lloyd Cardwell is named head coach for football and track at the University of Omaha.

1951: Preseason magazines are bullish on Nebraska, but coach Bill Glassford says it will be a rebuilding year.

1961: Ed Weir joins Bill Jennings’ staff as a line coach.

1971: Big Eight coaches see Nebraska and Oklahoma vying for the title and everyone else back in the pack.

1986: Mike Rozier expects to be relied upon more heavily in his second season with the Houston Oilers.

1996: Nebraska is voted No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press poll. Also, Tom Osborne’s “On Solid Ground” hits the bookstores.

2001: Johnny Rodgers is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.

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A week in Husker history
The week of Aug. 14-20, looking back in five-year intervals

1901: Plans are made to start two weeks of training camp on Sept. 1 near South Bend, Neb.

1906: Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews vows a “closer watch” on football players, saying some members of last year’s team had “ceased studying” and spent their evenings “playing poker and drinking.”

1921: Former Nebraska halfback Owen Frank is hired as first assistant to coach Fred Dawson.

1941: Bob Russell gets set for his final season as Nebraska football’s radio play-by-play man. Lyell Bremser, his assistant in the booth, would take over in 1942.


«1946: Fielding Yost, who coached Nebraska in 1898, dies at age 75 in Michigan, where he spent most of his Hall of Fame career.

1951: Thanks to a football profit of over $190,000, the Athletic Department registers a net gain of more than $74,000 for the recently concluded fiscal year. Meanwhile, 54 players are invited to participate in fall camp at Curtis, Neb. (It would be the third and final time that locale was utilized.)

1961: Gale Sayers, believed to be just weeks away from enrolling at Nebraska, dazzles in the North-South Shrine Bowl. | Recruiting saga

1971: Ninety players report as fall camp opens for Bob Devaney’s defending national champions.

1981: Tom Osborne says the 1981 defense might be even better than the previous year’s No. 3-ranked unit.

1996: Tom Osborne confirms the departure of three scholarship players and reluctantly addresses the program’s image issues.

2001: September court dates are set for Dahrran Diedrick and Tony Tata after they land in the slammer on charges of disturbing the peace. A disciplinary decision by Frank Solich is expected soon.

2006: The team captains are elected: Zac Taylor, Adam Carriker and Brandon Rigoni.

2011: The Bubba Starling saga ends as the two-way sports star signs with the Kansas City Royals. Also, Nebraska starts at No. 10 in the Associated Press poll.

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The Huskers will wear the black alternates during a Halloween Blackout against Washington.