Nebraska will wear a helmet sticker paying tribute to ... He was Nebraska's first black athlete, in 1891, before black athletes were banned by the university from 1917 until the late 1940s. ...

But it was the University of Nebraska, alone among Big Ten teams, that made a nod to history, using a helmet sticker to pay tribute to the school’s first Black football player, George Flippin.

Nebraska players wore helmets with new red stickers last weekend that simply read “George Flippin” in honor of the school's first Black athlete. Scott Frost said the cause was more ...

Steve Octavien got his Blackshirt back. What’s more, he apparently is ready to play Saturday. After missing the last four games with a hamstring injury, the Nebraska backup weakside linebacker ...

That stout squad highlighted the 1965 campaign -- a team co-captained by Kennedy and Frank Solich, who guided the Huskers to a perfect regular season and an Orange Bowl showdown with Alabama.