[Husker] Freshman Team?

[Alan Siporin]

Geeze, Gary, I didn't realize you were so juvenile - I mean young (smile).
The sad truth is that if you're old enough to have first hand knowledge
you're old enough to be losing faith in your memory.

Alan


On 11/21/05 7:51 PM, "gzimmerman at everestkc.net" <gzimmerman at everestkc.net>
wrote:

> 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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