We’re happy to pass along the news that there are a handful of new college wire sites and we’ll start the welcoming parade for those with a team that used to be an annual rival of Notre Dame’s…Nebraska.
Cornhuskers Wire has recently launched and will be the place to stop for any Nebraska fans in your life as Evan Bredeson and his team will compile Nebraska news, information, and thoughts going forward. Be sure to check them out now and going forward.
Notre Dame and Nebraska’s rivalry in college football is far from deep but is certainly at least worth mentioning, however. Before USC emerged as Notre Dame’s biggest football rival, the Irish played Nebraska annually from 1915-1925 with each team going 5-5-1 in those 11 games.
Legend has it that USC sent their athletic director and his wife to the Notre Dame game at Nebraska on Thanksgiving in 1925 with the intent on talking Knute Rockne into scheduling an annual game with the Trojans. Although that’s widely been accepted as gospel, Rockne had already been in talks about adding an annual west coast game, which is the reason behind Notre Dame’s bizarre Rose Bowl appearance on New Year’s Day 1925.
The legend goes that USC athletic director Gwynn Wilson and his wife attended that game in Lincoln, Nebraska, tried to talk Rockne into an annual game with USC, but that Rockne declined until his wife talked him into it a few weeks later. The truth is most likely that those talks were much further along than what we’re led to believe in regards to the wives tale.
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