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said, “and what a decent guy, one of
the most honest coaches in America,
if not the most honest coach in
America, is prepared to do to increase
his chances of winning.”
Osborne continued to defend his
decision to allow Phillips back on the
team, saying the athlete “needed foot
ball in his life.”
“You don’t want to take away the
one thing that has given the person
some sense of self-worth and some
sense of self-esteem.”
Meanwhile, the Cornhuskers
rolled. And they rolled. And they
rolled. For the season, the Nebraska
defense allowed no more than 28
points in a game — seven fewer than
the offense’s lowest output of the year.
The Huskers trailed for eight min
utes in their first 11 games, allowed
three points to their final two regular
season opponents, beat four top 10
teams 196-73 and scored 49 points or
more eight times. Freshman I-back
Ahman Green filled the huge void left
by Phillips. Green carried the ball 141
times for a freshman-record 1,086
yards and 13 touchdowns.
In the shadow of Phillips for much
of the season, quarterback Tommie
Frazier emerged as one of college
football’s most exciting players.
Frazier, a first-team All-American,
won the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm
Award, finished his career with 33
wins as a starter, won three bowl game
most valuable player awards and was
the runner-up in the Heisman voting.
Unchallenged for 11 games, Ne
braska apparently had met its match
in the Fiesta Bowl against Florida.
Nearly every major sports publication
and all the “experts” picked the Gators
to down the defending champs.
Florida players acted confident at
the bowl game’s media day, but under
the cool act, the Gators realized they
had never played in a national cham
pionship game. Nebraska was playing
in its third straight.
On Jan. 2 at Sun Devil Stadium, the
experience showed. Nebraska
outscored Florida 29-0 in the second
quarter, held the Gators to minus-28
yards rushing and did not punt in the
first half. Frazier ran for 199 yards,
Phillips burned Florida for 165 yards,
securing a spot in the first round of
April’s National Football League draft
and the Husker defense dominated.
Nebraska won 62-24, its 25th
straight win and 36th win over a three
year period, a college football record.
The back-to-back consensus national
titles were the first since Oklahoma
accomplished the feat in 1955-56.
And finally, the chapter was closed
on what Osborne called his best team
ever and his most difficult season in
23 years as a head coach.
While the football team was busy
mowing down opponents, the Husker
volleyball team was doing the same.
Directed by Christy Johnson (the
leader), Allison Weston (the power)
and Billie Winsett (the glue), Nebraska
claimed another national title with a
win over Texas on Dec. 16 in Amherst,
Mass.
In Amherst, Michigan State
awaited. The Spartans pushed Ne
braska to five games, finally falling
when the three Husker seniors refused
to give in, earning Coach Terry Pettit
his third trip to the championship
match in 19 years at Nebraska.
Pettit lost in 1986 and 1989, but
1995 was different.Texas, after climi
‘7 don’t care if they remember me. I just hope they
remember that the 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers
fought hard and brought home the
championship. ”
ALLISON WESTON
senior All-American volleyball player
nating heavy favorite Stanford in the
semifinals, fell in four games to Ne
braska, which relied on
Winsett, Johnson and junior Kate
Cmich to carry the load in the title
match.
“I know how much he wanted this,”
said Husker assistant Cathy Noth, who
has coached under Pettit since 1989.
“He wouldn’t voice that himself, but
I’ll say it for him.
» “Not a day goes by that I don’t
leam something from him. But most
of all, he let the players know that he
cared about them. TTiis is what it’s all
about right here.”
Immediately after winning the title,
Pettit spoke to his 32-1 team behind
the closed locker room doors at the
Mullins Center on the snowy, white
campus of the University of Massa
chusetts.
“This season will never end for
you,” he said. “What changes in your r
life is that you see that you can take
risks and goals and follow through.”
For Weston, Nebraska’s all-time
kill leader, the national title was a
sweet end to a record-setting career.
“This is the most important dream
for all of us, for as long as I can re
member,” she said. “I don’t care if they
remember me. I just hope they remem
ber that the 1995 Nebraska
Cornhuskers fought hard and brought
home the championship.”
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