*** Official Husker Yards to Glory Thread ***

wildman said:
Blackshirt316 said:
wildman said:
Ok someone help me here cause I can't find out who or the yardage. I think it was one of the Peter brothers more than likely Jason ran a fumble recovery back in a bowl game and high stepped it into the endzone. Depending on the yardage I think that play should be nominated to as it was a big body running it back untouched and finished with the highstep lol. I have found videos on youtube but I can't make out the player or the yardage.
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It was Christian Christian Christian. Gotta Love Him. and it went 90 yards. The play didn't stand though. Even though it was clearly a fumble the ref blew the whistle and ruled Kresser down by contact.
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Thanks I knew it was one of the Peter bothers. That explains why huskers.com doesn't show him with a td as a stat.
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It was also on a PAT attempt, so it wouldn't have been a TD, it would've been however they score the two points when the defense scores on a PAT attempt. It was an absolute classic moment though, in that Fiesta Bowl blowout of Florida.

 
We've missed one that just made ESPN's list, as someone reported on the other thread.

24 - Jeff Smith's TD run off the option on 4th & 8 late in the 4th quarter of the 84 Orange Bowl, leading to Osborne's decision for the ages to go for 2 instead of a tie.

 
56 yard TD pass, Zac Lee to Niles Paul against Missouri. Finally sparked the stagnant offense en route to one of the finest quarters ever in husker history. Also seemed to be a turning point in the young Pelini era

 
knapplc said:
Possibility for 25. Starting @ :23 in.

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That's a good point, Knap. I can see how we might want to go with plays from bigger games or clutch situations. That brings up another question, though: What about plays that put us over the top in important games but that don't have any video evidence? If we want to especially include plays that might have had a larger impact on the program, maybe we should bring some of these into the fold. I'm not trying to over-think it (Isn't that what Husker fans do though?). This is a fun thread either way!

 
sbhusker, video evidence is not a priority. All we need is the guy, the game, the year and the distance. We can verify it on Huskers.com. :thumbs

 
I tried to go back and find "the very first N touchdown", first TD out of the state, first TD against old Big 8 teams etc. couldn't find anything.

Yeah, I couldn't find scoring summaries from that era, either. I found the Chamberlin TD runs of 20 and 10 yds against ND in 1922 here: http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=919576

NU won 20-19, sealing a perfect 8-0 season and handing ND its only loss that year.

The article says he also threw the go-ahead TD, which presumably would be more 'glorious' than the other two TDs, but the play's yardage is not given.

 
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60- DeJaun Groce's punt return against KSU in 01.

Would have added his 89 yarder against Mizzou in 02 but it looks like Redwine has that spot at the moment.

 
Wow, looking back I noticed Groce also had a 71 yd return against Miami in "The Rose Bowl That Wasn't"....

I was so angry by that point in the game that I must have blocked that play completely out of the old memory banks. eyeswear2allthatsholy

 
DefensiveLineU said:
56 yard TD pass, Zac Lee to Niles Paul against Missouri. Finally sparked the stagnant offense en route to one of the finest quarters ever in husker history. Also seemed to be a turning point in the young Pelini era
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Wow I completely forgot that play. That's a great one. Talk about altering perceptions of the direction of a program in a single quarter.

 
Joe Orduna 67 run @ USC in 1970. Game ended in a 21-21 tie, the only "blemish" on the record of Nebraska's first NC team.


 
I think I have the front page updated with all of the submissions prior to this post. Let's try to fill this in before the season starts. That's 65 more TDs to list. Can we do it?

+1 to huzkerbob for not only finding the Orduna TD, but finding it with Lyell Bremser's call. :thumbs

 
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