[Husker] Freshman Team?

[gzimmerman at everestkc.net]

Geeze Alan, your like sooooooo old, man. 

I'm glad I don't have any first hand knowledge of Brownson, Tagge, and Frosh Football. : - )


Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
Overland Park, Kansas

----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Siporin <alans at efn.org>
Date: Monday, November 21, 2005 6:17 pm
Subject: Re: [Husker] Freshman Team?

> On 11/21/05 10:39 AM, "Mike Nolan" <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:
> 
> >> NU no longer has a freshman team; the 85 scholarship limit 
> pretty well did
> >> away with that everywhere. Air Force had a freshman team a few 
> years ago; I
> >> don't know if they still do or not.
> > 
> > There were probably 2 factors that led to the demise of the 
> freshman team:
> > 
> > 1.  A lack of teams that they could schedule games against.
> > 2.  The loss of a year of eligibility.
> > 
> > The 85 scholarship limit was an indirect factor, mostly at other 
> schools.> --
> > Mike Nolan
> 
> I did a story for NPR on the Husker freshmen team. I think it was 
> in 1984,
> and since I can't easily locate my notes or tape, I'll have to 
> rely on my
> fading memory. But my best recollection is that they were already 
> schedulinghalf their games against junior college teams because so 
> few school still
> had freshmen teams. So I think scheduling was a problem they could 
> haveovercome. The eligibility was a bit more troubling, but most 
> of all were the
> various limits, like coaches (more than anything), and 
> scholarships, too.
> 
> Keep in mind that freshmen weren't eligible to play varsity in the 
> heyday of
> the freshmen teams. I recall going to see Van Brownson play on the 
> freshmenteam. Varsity wasn't an option (pun intended) and he was 
> highly touted. He
> looked great, but every so often when it was third down and ten, 
> they would
> bring in this big, slow looking kid with his leg all taped up. 
> Maybe it was
> even in a cast. And then he would throw a bullet for a first down 
> and they
> would bring Van Brownson back in. The big kid with the rifle arm 
> was Jerry
> Tagge.
> 
> Alan Siporin
> 
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