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ATHLETICS
No brief survey of the history of athletics at Nebraska can possibly seem adequate. Unrecorded history after all is much more interesting than the statistics of victories and defeats. If a composite picture could be drawn which would mirror the individual heroisms, then only could we appreciate the records which the University of Nebraska has made on the courts, diamond, track, field, and gridiron since embarking in intercollegiate contests in the late '80's and early '90's.
The students of the University confined themselves in the early days to intra-mural athletics. It has been said that if Professor G. E. Howard, who was among the first students, had matriculated at a later time he would have been one of the most famous of our all-round athletes. Though one would scarcely picture Professor Caldwell as a plunging fullback, it is well known that he was a baseball player of a great deal of ability.
FOOTBALL
Football has been the major sport since its very beginning. From a desire to beat Doane and thus win the state championship, the goal of our first football teams, we have passed to the ambition revealed in the schedule for 1919, which includes Iowa, Minnesota, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Kansas, Ames, Missouri, and Syracuse. In 1890 with the aid of the football fans from among the faculty, the first football team was organized. The great rival for 1890 and 1801 was Doane; but in 1892 gridiron warriors tackled Kansas and were defeated by the score of 12 to 10. Their only other game that season was with Iowa, which resulted in a tie. The next year a professional coach was employed in the person of an old Michigan star by the name of Crawford, who piloted Nebraska through the season without a defeat. The 1894 team was the first team which was recognized as the champion of the Missouri Valley colleges.
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