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When I was in school, freshmen played on the freshman team.  They had to wait a year to play Varsity.  And it was unusual for a soph to start.  If a junior started he was a near great player relatively.

1972 changed everything for freshmen. Some school held onto it, most most did not.

Records for Nebraska’s freshman-junior varsity team were first kept in 1956, and through its final regularly scheduled season in 1990 the combined record was 120-17-1.

The Husker freshman-jayvees endured just one losing season, dropping their final three games to Air Force, Coffeyville (Kan.) Junior College and Waldorf (Iowa) Junior College in 1987 to finish 2-3.

One Last Time

In February of 1991, Nebraska announced it would discontinue its freshman-junior varsity program, in anticipation of an NCAA reduction in the number of allowable football assistants, a cost-cutting measure that went into effect for the 1992 season. Soon after, the Big Eight Conference passed a rule prohibiting freshman-junior varsity teams, also to cut costs.

Nebraska would play one more junior varsity game in 1993, against the Air Force Academy. Tom Osborne scheduled the game as a favor to Air Force coach Fisher DeBerry.

It was played on a Friday afternoon in early October at Memorial Stadium, in front of an audience estimated at just over 500. Many Husker fans were on the road home from Stillwater, Okla., where, on Thursday night, Nebraska had defeated Oklahoma State 27-13, Osborne’s 200th victory.

Husker grad assistants Gerry Gdowski and Bill Busch coached the team, Gdowski the offense, Busch the defense. The players practiced only once together in preparation.

Redshirted freshman quarterback Matt Turman, a 5-foot-10, 165-pound walk-on from Wahoo, Neb., who had yet to earn the nickname “the Turmanator,” directed the 49-20 victory, completing 9-of-11 passes for 182 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for 73 yards.

loved that guy, wish he would have had another year or two.  Waited in the wings behind Steve Taylor.

lost a tough game in Boulder - not his fault

Gerry Gdowski's pass intended for Jon Bostick in the end zone on the last play of the game was deflected by Colorado's Dave McCloughan, preserving the second-ranked Buffaloes' 27-21 win over third-ranked Nebraska and leaving CU all alone at the top of the Big Eight standings.

Gdowski, who threw three touchdown passes and racked up 280 total-offense yards, had driven the Huskers from the NU 12 to the CU 42 in the last 1:40 before the last-ditch pass fell incomplete.

Then ran into Peter Tom Willis in the Orange bowl -  Peter Tom Willis threw for 422 yards, the most passing yards ever against a Nebraska team, as he completed 25 of 40 passes, with no interceptions and five touchdowns.

My maternal grandmother's given name was Oza Jevera.  Her sister was named Ova Ethyl.

My grandparents...


James (like my dad and me)
Anabelle

Salvatore (fought Jake LaMotta - tough as nails, came from Palermo)
Irene

My maternal grandmother's given name was Oza Jevera.  Her sister was named Ova Ethyl.

Is that derived from some foreign language?

Is that derived from some foreign language?

Don't know.  "Ova" is Latin for eggs.