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[pibel]

Another Custer County Connection as Tommy Thompson and I are
Ansley grads. My
birthplace was Loup City and we lived on a ranch north of
Burwell for six years
before moving to a farm northeast of Ansley when I was 11.
Education came in
two different rural schools with one teacher and K-8 grades.
I rode a horse to
school regardless of the weather and when a blizzard hit I
got there teacher or
not. The bus ride to Ansley starting in ninth grade was
considerably warmer in
the winter but not nearly as much fun.
First Husker game in person was the 1961 loss to Oklahoma
that ended the Jennings
era. Our high school team went down and paid 50 cents each
to sit in the knothole
bleachers. Made the trip the next year to watch the Huskers
defeat Oklahoma State
for the first time and saw Bob Brown pick up a Cowboy
running back at the line of
scrimmage, turn him upside down and drop him on his head
into the lineman he had
tried to run through.
While attending UNL I missed one home game. It was with OU
on a particularly cold
Thanksgiving-1969-I think. Attended a couple of games at
Colorado in that time
with the most memorable being a Bob Churchich engineered
comeback from 19-0 to
win 21-19. The Buffalo fans were a hostile throng after that
one and went after
anything red. The next time was an easier win but it came
after snow had fallen
in Boulder with snow still in the stands. One brat Buffalo
student formed a
snowball arond a rock and chunked it at the Nebraska fans.
The woman he hit went
to the hospital.
The last game I watched in person was during the OU John
Blake tenure and was
the year the Huskers obliterated the Sooners in Norman. We
saw D'Amond Parker
score three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to the cheers
of the Nebraska fans
who stayed to the end while the Sooners schoonered out just
after halftime. Now
I catch an occasional watch party with the Oklahoma
Cornhusker Club in OKC.
The list continues to be my favorite site for topics Husker.

Kerry Hookstra
Erick, Oklahoma(where we are on the western fringe of the
ice storm hitting the
state and cancelling nearly every basketball game for the
next two days-just hope
the electricity stays with us)

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From: "Pitkin, Gregg" <Gregg.Pitkin at fmr.com>
To: <husker at tssi.com>
Subject: RE: [Husker] more data
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:01:47 -0600

"I've only got 2 kids and 12hours to get to Callaway.  I
can't imagine how my parents
drove 36 hours from Mass to NE and back each year with 4
kids wining in the back seat. After a few years in Mass, dad
bough a small farm in Callaway and we would spend the summer
working 20 acres of corn, raising 50 chickens, and maybe a
hog.  By the time we left we had a lay down freezer full of
fresh beef, pork, chicken and corn that we dragged back
East.  Those summers on the farm were the most memorable of
my life, and cemented my love for anything Nebraska or
Husker related."

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