"6 Erstad
Darin Erstad had numbers and awards that few Nebraska baseball
players could ever live up to. Especially since one of his awards came
in die national championship with the Nebraska football team.
But first... baseball.
Erstad has already been to one Major League Baseball All-Star
game ana nas ine aii-arouna skiiis to go to
many more. The No. 1 pick in the 1995 major
league baseball draft to the Anaheim Angels
had a storied career as No. 17 at Nebraska.
In his career for the Comhuskers, Erstad,
the No. 6 male athlete on the Daily Nebraskan
Sports Century list, had a .356 average over
all. He had 41 home runs and 182 runs batted
in. He did that over 182 games, just 20 more
than a major league regular season.
Erstad’s best year was in 1995 when he hit
.410 overall with 19 homers and 76 RBIs. One
of those home runs made blooper history
when it smashed the window of a car driving
by just outside Buck Beltzer Stadium. He held
six school records after that season, which
included 84 runs scored.
Once in the major leagues, Erstad fought
for time in a crowded Angels outfield before
finding a niche at first base. There, Erstad hit
.299 in 1997 with 16 home runs and 77 RBI. In 1998, Erstad’s All-Star
season, he hit .296 with 19 homers and 82 RBI. He clocked in with 39
doubles, as well.
But Erstad has another distinction he can claim: He was part of
Nebraska’s 1994 national championship team that went 13-0. He was
a kicker on that team, designated to boot the long field-goal tries for
the Huskers. As a result, Erstad was only 3-for-8 that season, but did
boot a 46-yarder. Erstad also made 10 points after touchdowns.
Dave #9
Rimington
Think of offensive
linemen in Nebraska
football history. It does
n’t take long to get to
Dave Rimington.
He ruled the trench
es for NU in 1980-1982,
reaching the pinnacle of
his success in his final
season, when he won
both the Outland and
Lombardi trophies.
Rimington, the No.
9 male athlete on the
Daily Nebraskan Sports
| Shrine Bowl after his
| high school career. He
| played on it through col
I lege, garnering All
American honors two
times and adding a 1981
Outland Award to his
1982 sweep along the
way. He helped pave the
way for Nebraska to fin
ish 11-1 in 1982 and fin
ish No. 3 in the nation
behind Penn State and
Southern Methodist.
What did Rimington
century list, was a
throwback in many a sense. He perfect
ed the run block. He played on creaky
knees. He played without sleeves in
cold weather. He, almost as much as
any other Husker player, personified
Nebraska’s switch to an option offense
by then-coach Tom Osborne.
“Dave was an outstanding lineman,
there’s no question about that,”
Osborne said. “He’s one of the two or
three best offensive linemen I’ve
coached.”
Maybe of the most amazing thing is
that Rimington never really played 100
percent. He hurt his knee severely in the
possess max maae mm so
good? Size, for one. But even more so,
he had quickness that startled defend
ers time and time again.
“The first five yards, Dave was out
standing,” Osborne said. “He had
scramble ability that made him better
than most we’ve had. He was strong,
too. Very strong.”
Rimington’s knee injury prevented
him from having the kind of profes
sional career he could have had,
Osborne said. But it doesn’t take away
from his legacy of being one of the
most dominating linemen in Nebraska,
and college football history.
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In the world of gymnastics, one
might see Phil Cahoy as somewhat of a
giant -literally.
He stood 6-foot-1, highly irregular
for a performer in a sport that usually
favors men 5 to 6 inches shorter. But it
didn’t stop Cahoy, who won four indi
vidual national titles, along with three
national team titles for the Nebraska
gymnastics team in 1980-81.
,7/-, Phil
Cahoy
“My height always made me feel a
little different because the guys who
were my buddies were six inches short
er than me,” Cahoy said.
“As time went on, I appreciated my
height a lot more.”
Cahoy, the No. 7 athlete on the
Daily Nebraskan Sports Century list,
won plenty for his time and was part of
the 1980 Olympic team that boycotted
the Olympics in Moscow. And he
would have won more if it had not been
for his NU teammate Jim Hartung.
Hartung, the No. 3 athlete on the
list, won seven national titles from
1980-82. Best friends with Hartung
since the age of five, Cahoy said the
two pushed each other to perform.
“It got very competitive between
us but it was a good competition,”
Cahoy said. “We always wanted to set
the bar and then try and outperform
each other.
“Jim Hartung needs to be on the
list more so than I do.”
Cahoy trained under his father, Phil
Cahoy Sr., at the acclaimed Cahoy
School of Gymnastics as a child -
through high school. He looked at
other colleges, but never seriously con
sidered anywhere other than Nebraska.
“It helps to have your fans behind
you and crowds we used to get back
then were phenomenal,” Cahoy said.
“It was great to be in your home state
and get that kind of support.”
^Turner
Gill
Sit back and think about it and
Turner Gill is a name that just sounds
like it could run the option.
And run it he could. Gill, the No. 8
athlete on the Daily Nebraskan Sports
Century list, could throw with the best
of them, as well.
If nothing else, Gill will always
take pride in the fact that he beat
Oklahoma three straight seasons at a
time when the Cornhuskers didn’t
always march into Norman, Okla., as
favorites.
In eight seasons prior to 1981,
then-Nebraska coach Tom Osborne
had defeated OU just once. Gill, too,
had extra incentive after choosing to
play at Nebraska over Oklahoma.
“Looking back, that was probably
the thing' that sticks out in my mind,”
said Gill, who earned letters at quar
terback from 1980-83. “Beating
Oklahoma was big.”
• Though he never won a national
title, Gill helped the Huskers to three
Big Eight
Championships. He did,
however, come within a
two-point conversion of a
national championship in
1983.
Nebraska, ranked first in The
Associated Press poll all season, fell to
No. 5 Miami 31-30 in the Orange
Bowl Jan. 2,1984. It was loss for NU,
but one of the greatest games ever
played out on a college football stage.
“Going into that ball game, we felt
like we were the best team in the coun
try,” said Gill, who ranks 32nd on the
Huskers all-time rushing chart with
1,593 yards. “We felt that way after the
game, too. We got behind and we
came up short on that two-point play.
But I had a great opportunity. It was a
growing experience.”
Gill, who also ranks fourth on
NU’s all-time passing chart with 3,521
yards, said he also learned a lot from
Osborne through his career. Osborne
hired Gill after the 1991
season to coach the
quarterbacks, a position
he still holds today.
“It’s been excellent
to be able to play and
coach with Tom* ;
Osborne,” Gill said.
“I’ve learned an awful
lot from him about life. I
knew every day when I
woke up in the morning
that I would be excited
to go to work. It’s been a
great experience all around.”
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox
out of high school and again by the
New York Mets following his junior
year at Nebraska, Gill tried his hand at
professional baseball from 1986-89.
Though he only played one season
of baseball for the Huskers, Gill said
the national pastime had been where
his heart originally lay.
“If you’re not talking about specif
ic numbers,” Gill said. “I think overall,
I didn’t even dream of the success I
would have in football. I felt basebalf
was my sport. Everything that I
accomplished in football was more
than I could dream of. From that
standpoint, I had a very, very success
ful career.
*10 Rich
Glover
Of the numbers that Rich Glover
compiled in his three seasons at middle
guard for Nebraska, there is one that
sounds out loud and clear above the
rest - 22 tackles ... in one game ...
against Oklahoma.
In what was advertised as the
Game of the Century on Nov. 25,1971,
Glover amassed the 22 takedowns
which still stand as an NU school
record. The No. 1 Huskers went on to
win over
the 2nd
ranked
Sooners,
35-31 and
eventually took their second consecu
tive national championship.
Glover saw the lion’s share of his
individual achievements the next year,
however, when he won both the
Lombardi Award and the Outland
Trophy as the nation’s best defensive
lineman. ,
He became the first Comhusker to
win the double honor. Dave Rimington
did it in 1982 and Dean Steinkuhler did
it in 1983.
Well on his way to the awards,
Glover racked up 100 tackles in 1972
to finish his college career with 211
total tackles. Glover is 15* on Ihe all
time tackles list at Nebraska.
Glover was named an All
American in 1971 and 1972, joining
fellow Huskers Jeff Kinney, Larry
Jacobson, Jerry Tagge, Willie Harper,
Daryl White arid Johnny Rodgers, who
were also named on either the 1971 or
1972 teams..Rodgers, Harper and
Glover were the only Huskers on both
the 1971 and 1972 All-American
squads.
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