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It doesn't matter that the Tunnel Walk has been around for less than two decades. That's long enough for it to become established as our signature entrance. Touching the Horseshoe by itself isn't much of much. Like everyone's saying - lots of teams touch something on the way out to the field.

What doesn't matter is that every that every lemming in the US who hasn't been to Husker game would have seen "dates back 16 years" and scoffed at it as a tradition.

 

Where are they announcing how long these traditions have been in existence? As far as those lemmings know, we've been doing the Tunnel Walk since we were the Bugeaters.

 

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Script Ohio is probably the most famous of the the Buckeyes' traditions and was begun by the marching band in the 1936 season.

 

Nebraska has a lucky horseshoe that hangs above the door as the team leaves the North Stadium. It used to hang in the South Stadium tunnel. The Cornhuskers say the tradition of players tapping the horseshoe has gone on "for as long as anyone can remember."

 

Michigan vs. Colorado

 

The tradition began in 1934 after Colorado selected Buffaloes as its team nickname, although there was no official mascot until 1957. The first Ralphie began appearing at Colorado games in 1966.

 

When Michigan takes the field at the Big House, all players and coaches make sure to jump and touch the "Go Blue" banner displayed at midfield. The tradition started in 1962 and remains one of the best spectacles in college sports.

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The tunnel walk has been around since the players have been coming out from under the stadium. Maybe not with the big screen and music, but the hype of the players coming out before the game has always been a 'tunnel walk'...

My dad told me stories about coming out of the tunnel (including the horeshoe) when he played back in the 70s

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The tunnel walk has been around since the players have been coming out from under the stadium. Maybe not with the big screen and music, but the hype of the players coming out before the game has always been a 'tunnel walk'...

My dad told me stories about coming out of the tunnel (including the horeshoe) when he played back in the 70s

 

This, I remember lining up to get a look at the players as a kid back in the 80's as they walked out of the locker room. The music and video may be newer, but the other was there in the late 80's at least, and obviously earlier from your post.

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The history of the horseshoe is pretty cool.

 

The horseshoe was found on or near "Nebraska Field" after Nebraska defeated Notre Dame (14-6) and their famed "Four Horsemen" in 1922, the last game of the 1922 season and the last game ever played at Nebraska Field. It was Notre Dame's only loss of 1922.

 

Nebraska's lucky HORSESHOE was brought to the third game to be played at the new "Memorial Stadium" when Nebraska would again be facing the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. Nebraska defeated Notre Dame again (14-7) and the horseshoe has remained a part of every home game ever since.

 

For as long as anyone can remember, the Huskers have touched a lucky horseshoe on their way from the locker room to the field. The horseshoe hangs above the double doors that open into the tunnel, and it has hung there since the South Stadium locker room opened before the 1973 season. Prior to 1973, during coach Bob Devaney’s tenure, the horseshoe hung above a door near the north locker room. When the team moved to its new airconditioned quarters, players persuaded Coach Tom Osborne to allow them to relocate the horseshoe. Captains John Dutton and Daryl White hoisted teammate Bob Thornton, who put the horseshoe in its current place. Osborne, who had just succeeded Devaney as coach, agreed that the horseshoe should be moved. He wasn’t superstitious, he said, but he figured the players didn’t want UCLA, the opening-game opponent in 1973, to have the horseshoe’s luck. The Cornhuskers won, 40-13.
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