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.
The University of Nebraska in Lincoln is nicknamed the cornhuskers.
Nebraska Cornhuskers football was created in 1890.
Nebraska Cornhuskers baseball was created in 1869.
The team was first called Cornhuskers in 1899.
No, she was neither in the 1958 movie Auntie Mame, or the 1974 musical. Mame.
what hapend at the battle of mame?
Yes, and at one time Nebraska Cornhuskers were called the Hawkeyes. NO JOKE!
The Cornhuskers state is Nebraska. South Dakota is the state to the north of Nebraska.
Mame McCutchin is 5' 11".
Mame Faye was born in 1866.
Mame Faye died in 1943.
MAME was created on 1997-02-05.