[Husker] Losing It

[Dick Karre]

Nebraska is in the midst of its 118th season of intercollegiate 
football. In all that time, NU has lost as many as five games in a row 
only seven times, and all seven of them occurred during the "Dark Ages" 
between the (first) Rose Bowl team and the arrival of the Bobfather:
	1941: lost 5 in a row
	1942-43: lost 7 in a row (last 4 in '42 and the first 3 in '43)
	1943-44: lost 5 in a row (last 2 in '43 and the first 3 in '44)
	1944-45: lost 6 in a row (last 1 in '44 and the first 5 in '45)
	1948: lost 5 in a row
	1957: lost 7 in a row
	1958: lost 5 in a row

Consider it: NU played 51 seasons (1890-1940) without ever losing five 
in a row, and has now played 48 seasons (1959-2006) without losing five 
in row. Will the Huskers make it 49?

Now consider this: In those first 51 seasons, NU had a losing record 
only three times, in 1899, 1918 and 1938, and in the most-recent 45 
seasons (1962-2006), only once, in 2004. That's four losing seasons in 
96 during those two eras, and no head coach presided over two losing 
seasons.

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Dick Karre
dkarre at comcast.net