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Program collection notes Husker football since 1 927 4 By Andy Riggs Many small boys save Nebraska football programs. They identify themselves as future Rich Glovers, Johnny Rodyerses or Frosty Andersons, playing for the; Cornhuskers. Why would a 48 -year-old man collect football programs? George Ostei miller Joes juu that. His collection of Nebraska football programs dates back to 1927. He was two years old when the first program in his collection was printed. "I started saving the programs when 1 was 12, when my relatives gave me about ten programs dating back to 1927," ho said. "I thought it would be nice to have some record of who played during certain years and to keep track of players in their later lives." Ostermiller grew u in Lincoln and said he attended many of th Comhusker yames with his relatives. Ho attended Lincoln High School and enrolled at UNL in 1941 "I played football at IJncoin High arid really enjoyed it. It's kist that I wasn't good enough to play at Nebraska, so I turned spectator. But I novo:- lo-,f my love ior the game." Ostermiller was called into the military service in 1944 and spent two years uwjy from Nebraska, returning to finish bis education in 1946, He g.aduated in 1950 "After I graduated. I went away from Nebraska for a few years and I missed the games and the programs, fheie an a few programs that i don't have in the- fifties." he said. He said he sees nothing strange about a man collecting football programs. He has had many requests to show his collection at class reunions and gatherings. Many persons are interested in the old football teams, he said. "It helps in settling arguments too," he said. Although Ostermiller doesn't have all the programs from every year, he has one program from each year. He said he doesn't need all of them because only the covers are different. He didn't collect all the programs by himself. He said many persons who had copies from years he didn't were more than glad to help him try to complete his set. "I got a few from the football coach at my son's high school, who played in the early sixties, and I picked up some others from friends who knew I was collecting them," he said. "If I get some help finding issues that I don't have, soon I'll have fifty years of Nebraska football on record." Ostermiller also collected Football Illustrated, a magazine which carried stories and pictures on all the college teams from 1929 to 194", when it folded. He said he kepi the issues to see how the teams were doing in those years. "My wife can't understand why I keep this collection around. She calls me a pack rat, but I think some of the issues could be valuable some day," fie said. Ostermiller has a program from the 1940 Rose Bowl team, which he considers almost is i are as the late 1920s issues. ' Pack rat or not, i still intend to keep collecting the piograms," he said. i ... f - 1 ? . f,K' V .' it W,, JH hi 7 V J " r Football Fan George Ostermiller displays his collection of Cornhusker programs and other dated memorabilia. Ostermiller owns at least one program from each football season since 19Z7. Correction... A statement mjdc by Regent Robert Koefoot was reported incorrectly in the Friday Daily Nebraskan. Koefoot was quoted ;.,s c;.vir.g "the purchase oi additional land for parking (at the NU Med;cal Center) h.:v; Ireen studied and is thought to be a bad investment.'' Kocfoot was talking about student off-campus housmr;, not parking space. The Daily Nebraskau regrets this enoi RESEARCH ASDS FREE CATALOG -1 hous.-.r.du o' ii'S. uich ai.-li ;is'!d - f a...r. .jv.i!ljl'!f v-nh (c-.oloot.r-fit:. J !)i:.jlioi"jr jijI' - Lowost I'' ": (LiAHVS I I LD ; or o V R(. ( copy '''' bo ciws ltd covfir pust.igM .nu hauriiinii) to IMat'l. Research Bank 40 N. Pnlm Or. Uw. hi-tlii Cii. 002 10 you MUST include your ?ip t.o-H. TELEPHONF: 1213) SI soli1! Hitch Hiker Match Up (loinj: soiiu'wlierc for riianksiving? No oil riiloridors? Ailvorliso in tlio Daily Nohraskan Want Ails llili.li Hikot Match Up. Nov. 16. I", 2. Special 3 loi 2. Pay l'r 2 days, get t lie third 1 1 to. Ails ini'st ho tKIU' ."-Ivancc. Deadline I'luirs. Nov. I 5, noon. Nov. 1b, 19, 21 .- Y' if ' ' - I'm Ferris I ladJ.id, of course. And my phone (475-2746, in cmsc you re interested) must ring at least twenty times a day. You see, every time someone has a party, I'm the guy they call for a keg of Olympia draft. Because I'm the guy who can tell them where to get that keg. If I'm lucky, maybe one of these days they'll call me with an invitation. Olympia IJrcwinn Company, TumwaU-r, Washington Oly monday, novomhor 12, 1973 daily nebraskan page 3