ICAlumni
Well-Known Member
I'm sorry but I call complete BS on the majority of you and on LeCharles... there is a rivalry there and it IS natural. LeCharles is a typical arrogant Buckeye that think they know how the world goes round. Here's the reality.
- These schools have played something like 30-40 times in history.
- These states share a border and the campuses are only hours apart.
- The two fanbases don't seem to like each other very much and continually make jokes and comments about the other.
- The Hawkeyes used to be known as the Cornhuskers. I'd known about this and Googled it... finding this on none other than Huskers.com:
After its first losing season in a decade, it must have seemed only fitting that Nebraska move in a new direction, and Lincoln sportswriter Charles S. (Cy) Sherman, who was to gain national renown as the sports editor of the Lincoln Star and help originate The Associated Press Poll, provided the nickname that has gained fame for a century. Sherman tired of referring to the Nebraska teams with such an unglamorous term as Bugeaters. Iowa had, from time to time, been called the Cornhuskers, and the name appealed to Sherman.
Iowa partisans seemed to prefer Hawkeyes, so Sherman started referring to the Nebraska team as Cornhuskers, and the 1900 team was first to bear that label.
- I won't say they stole our name (I'm glad we took Hawkeyes) but they effectively co-opted it at the turn of the century.
Folks there are 100+ years of history simmering between these schools, and it has played itself out frequently through the years. It's a rivalry... maybe a simmering one at the moment but it's already there.
And it's about to get better thanks to NE joining a real conference and last nights alignment announcement.
That's all.
- These schools have played something like 30-40 times in history.
- These states share a border and the campuses are only hours apart.
- The two fanbases don't seem to like each other very much and continually make jokes and comments about the other.
- The Hawkeyes used to be known as the Cornhuskers. I'd known about this and Googled it... finding this on none other than Huskers.com:
After its first losing season in a decade, it must have seemed only fitting that Nebraska move in a new direction, and Lincoln sportswriter Charles S. (Cy) Sherman, who was to gain national renown as the sports editor of the Lincoln Star and help originate The Associated Press Poll, provided the nickname that has gained fame for a century. Sherman tired of referring to the Nebraska teams with such an unglamorous term as Bugeaters. Iowa had, from time to time, been called the Cornhuskers, and the name appealed to Sherman.
Iowa partisans seemed to prefer Hawkeyes, so Sherman started referring to the Nebraska team as Cornhuskers, and the 1900 team was first to bear that label.
- I won't say they stole our name (I'm glad we took Hawkeyes) but they effectively co-opted it at the turn of the century.
Folks there are 100+ years of history simmering between these schools, and it has played itself out frequently through the years. It's a rivalry... maybe a simmering one at the moment but it's already there.
And it's about to get better thanks to NE joining a real conference and last nights alignment announcement.
That's all.
