[NU Sports] Next year, when we play UNL

[Beamsley, Jeff]

"The most important thing is that Northwestern should not have to give
up being referred to in its rightful abbreviated form of NU simply
because the new kid on the block with a lesser claim has been calling
itself that too."

New kid on the block?  

Northwestern 
Founded 1851
Started playing football 1876

Nebraska 
founded 1869
started playing football 1890

Lesser claim?

Northwestern 
conference championships - 8
bowl record 1-7
National Championships - 0

Nebraska
Conference championships - 46 
Bowl Record 25 -22
National Championships - 5


"The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Queen Gertrude

Jeff



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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Joe Thiegs
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:46 PM
To: SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Next year, when we play UNL

Yes, but WHY do they have "CU" and "KU" in their logos?  I agree with
Mike
V.--it's weird.  The best guess I have is that the schools didn't want
"UN"
or "UC"/"UK"...yet there are other "UC"s and "UK"s out there.  The most
important thing is that Northwestern should not have to give up being
referred to in its rightful abbreviated form of NU simply because the
new
kid on the block with a lesser claim has been calling itself that too.
I
would hate to see expansion of the use of the bastardized form "NWU" . .
.
we see it too often already.

Like the sign at the Wrigley Field game said:  "The real NU welcomes
UN-L to
the Big Ten."

-Joe


On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:36 AM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
<sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Well, to be fair, both Colorado and Kansas have "CU" and "KU" on their
> logos (and in the Jayhawks' case, the rock-chalk chant).
>
> AFAIK, the Cornhusker mascot and that annoying bobble blow-up
pseudo-mascot
> only have big block Ns on their overalls (and stadium ... which, as
the
> story goes, stands for nowledge :) ).
>
> My guess is that we'll be "N'WESTERN" or "NWU" on ESPN while the
Huskers
> are "NEB" - as long as we beat them, they can call us anything they
want. :)
>
> GO CATS!!!
> -SjT
>
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> sjtruog at yahoo.com
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