Nebraska senior linebacker Lavonte David has joined elite company in Cornhusker history, being named a first-team All-American by the American Football Coaches Association on Monday. The 6-1, 225-pound David has led Nebraska in tackles the past two seasons and become one of the top five tacklers in school history despite playing just two seasons as [...]
Nebraska’s Rex Burkhead hurt so good after running over and around Iowa. Burkhead started the week with his right foot in a walking boot and finished it by running for 160 yards and a touchdown on a school-record 38 carries in Nebraska’s 20-7 victory Friday. “A little sore — definitely a little sore,” Burkhead said [...]
Nebraska senior linebacker Lavonte David was one of eight players named a semifinalist for the Lott IMPACT Trophy on Wednesday. The Lott Trophy is presented annually to college football’s Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year. David was one of five linebackers on the list and one of two players from the Big Ten Conference, along [...]
Starting quarterback Dan Persa was on the sideline in the second half because of a bum shoulder, and Northwestern’s maligned defense was doing all it could to hold off Nebraska. Surely, most fans wearing scarlet and cream at Memorial Stadium were thinking it was just a matter of time before the Cornhuskers (No. 10 BCS, [...]
Rex Burkhead was flat on his back, writhing in pain and holding his left leg after the 31st of his 35 runs against Michigan State. Nebraska coach Bo Pelini rushed across the field to check on his star running back. “I saw he was cramping up,” Pelini said, “and I was pretty relieved.” After going [...]
Nebraska piled up the yards like Tom Osborne’s teams from back in the day, and all coach Bo Pelini could think about was how much better Rex Burkhead and Co. could have been. The demanding coach sees the potential in these Huskers, and Pelini wasn’t about to be satisfied with a dominant victory against an [...]
No. 9 Nebraska finally can set its sights on its first Big Ten Conference game with a trip to Wisconsin next weekend. “We knew going into the year it was going to be a challenge, and it’s staring us right in the face right now,” Huskers coach Bo Pelini said after Nebraska beat Wyoming 38-14 [...]
Another time, Nebraska coach Bo Pelini would have been enraged by his defense’s performance. Not this time. No. 11 Nebraska defeated Washington 51-38 in a wild game Saturday in which the teams combined for 884 yards of offense — and the usually defensive-minded Pelini was all smiles. He wouldn’t say it during the week, but [...]
In a game filled with big plays, Ameer Abdullah made the biggest. The Nebraska freshman returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown after Fresno State made it a two-point game in the fourth quarter, and the 10th-ranked Cornhuskers went on to win 42-29 Saturday night. “We had a couple previous kick returns that were [...]
Nebraska place-kicker/punter Brett Maher was recognized for his performance in the Huskers’ season opener, while also making Nebraska football history on Monday. The junior from Kearney, Neb., was named the Big Ten Special Teams Co-Player of the Week this morning and earned the College Football Performance Award as National Place Kicker of the Week this [...]