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Barbecue open Friday night.
There are several former University of Nebraska football players who have perpetual spots on the list of celebrities in the annual Adrian Fiala Husker Heritage Golf Tournament at Wild Horse Golf Club.
Larry Jacobson, Bill Janssen, Bill Kosch, Dave Morock and Steve Runty are just a few who come back year after year for the charity event.
They’ll join many other former NU players in Gothenburg again on Saturday for the ninth annual fund raiser for the TeamMates mentoring program.
Organizer Adrian Fiala, former color commentator and Cornhusker football historian, said once they come to Wild Horse, Husker players are hooked.
But there’s always someone new who joins the ranks of Huskers to team with four other players in the scramble.
Fiala has added Outland Trophy winner and Nebraska Football Hall of Famer Eric Weigert to the list this year and has a couple of other big names hoping to make the trip.
At least 20 former players, coaches or staff members will golf on Saturday and many will be on hand Friday night as well for a free-will donation pork barbecue beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the club house.
Fiala said Friday’s social event is an opportunity for people to meet the former Huskers, hear them retell their stories and get autographs.
“It’s very informal,” Fiala said. “It’s a great time for people to come hobnob with us.”
The Nebraska Pork Producers, Frito-Lay and Peterson’s Supermarket sponsor the barbecue with all proceeds going to the local chapter of TeamMates.
Golf begins Saturday with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. and concludes with a banquet at the club house catered by Whiskey Creek.
Proceeds from the tournament also benefit the TeamMates organization.
TeamMates is a school-based one-to-one mentoring program that identifies youth who could use a caring adult in their lives.
Former coach and current athletic director Tom Osborne founded the program with his wife Nancy in 1991.
For more information, contact Wild Horse Golf Club at 537-7700.
<a href="http://www.gothenburgtimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1532:wild-horse-to-host-ninth-annual-husker-benefit&catid=2:sports&Itemid=3tag:news.google.com,2005:cluster=http://www.gothenburgtimes.com/index.php?option=com_content">Wild Horse to host ninth annual Husker benefit
By STEVEN M. SIPPLE / Lincoln Journal Star
Barry Alvarez will be among those inducted into the 2010 College Football Hall of Fame Football Bowl Subdivision Class, the National Football Foundation announced Thursday.Alvarez, who lettered as a linebacker at Nebraska from 1965 to 1967, will be inducted as a coach, along with Gene Stallings.Alvarez had a record of 118-73-4 (.615) at Wisconsin from 1990 to 2005, becoming the winningest coach in school history. He also had the highest bowl winning percentage of all-time at Wisconin (8-3, .727), while coaching three Big Ten and Rose Bowl champions.
In addition to Alvarez and Stallings, 12 players will be inducted.“Barry’s had a very good career, and I want to congratulate him,” said Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne, a graduate assistant coach during Alvarez’s NU playing career.Alvarez, who grew up in Langeloth, Pa., played at Nebraska for legendary head coach Bob Devaney. Alvarez was the leading tackler for the 1967 Huskers, who led the nation in total defense and created a school-record 40 turnovers.Barry Alvarez resurrected a Wisconsin program that looked hopeless on the field and off, and he went on to become the only Big Ten coach to win consecutive Rose Bowls.
LINCOLN — Ndamukong Suh finished his Nebraska football career asthe most decorated defensive player in school history.
He’s now the most charitable, as well.
The former NU defensive tackle pledged a donation of $2.6million to NU athletics at Saturday’s spring game, an announcementthat drew perhaps the biggest applause of the day. It’s the largestsingle gift the university has received from a former player,Athletic Director Tom Osborne said.
Suh, expected to be a top-five pick in Thursday’s NFL draft,said $2 million will go to the strength and conditioning programand $600,000 is to endow a scholarship to the UNL College ofEngineering. Suh earned a bachelor of science in constructionmanagement in December.
“It’s a great feeling,” Suh said.
“I didn’t feel like I had to, but I definitely wanted to giveback to a university that gave me so much. It didn’t feel like Ineed to, but I definitely felt like I wanted to.”
NU will receive Suh’s donation after he signs an NFL contract.The $2 million portion is expected to go toward renovations andupdates in the north stadium strength and conditioning center.
“I had a fantastic football career at Nebraska, and, thanks tomy coaches and support staff, I have learned the value of hardwork, teamwork and life skills,” Suh said in a release. “Theseskills will help me tremendously as I prepare for my career in theNFL.”
Husker coach Bo Pelini raised a fist in the air when Suh wascheered during the ceremony.
“Suh’s a special human being,” Pelini said, “and obviously he’smeant a lot to this program and accomplished a lot. And I thinkhe’s smart enough and mature enough to realize that there are a lotof other people that played a hand in helping him achieve that andput him in the position he’s in now. It just shows the type ofmaturity he has. He’s a tremendous young man whose life is about tochange here in five days.”
Nick Rubek reports for the Omaha World-Herald.