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Lincoln sportswriter Charles S. (Cy) Sherman provided the nickname. 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.
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The University of Nebraska in Lincoln is nicknamed the cornhuskers.
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Nebraska Cornhuskers football was created in 1890.
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The team was first called Cornhuskers in 1899.
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