Teams Nebraska has never played:

Boston College
Kentucky
Louisville
Maryland
Vanderbilt
Virginia

Teams Nebraska hasn’t played since 1960:

Duke (lost 7-34 on 1/1/1955 in the Orange Bowl)
Stanford (lost 13-21 on 1/1/1941 in the Rose Bowl)

Nebraska vs. Duke in the Orange Bowl (orangebowl.org)

The “Husker Prayer” has been around since at least the ’90s. The tradition may or may not have originated with Grant Wistrom. I’ve known for a while that it was a heavily telephoned version of a 1920s poem (“Prayer of a Sportsman”) by poet and possible Wisconsin fan Berton Braley, but I could never find exactly where it came from. Even the Berton Braley Cyber Museum didn’t have any information on its original publication.

Well, here’s the closest I could come. A monthly newsletter called The American Tyler-Keystone (“Devoted to Freemasonry and Its Concordant Orders”) published the poem on what appears to be the cover of the January 1921 edition.

SportsLogos.Net is probably the best site to find information on any major sports team’s logo history. But the Nebraska page is surprisingly bare. They list one primary logo with the timeline stating “0-Pres”. The zero indicates the start date is unknown. For most big schools, you will find logos dating back to the seventies or sixties. But for Nebraska, that’s it. Just one logo.

For some reason they don’t include the Huskers script N logo in the primary logos section, but it’s pretty clear the University used that as their main athletic logo prior to the current logo being introduced around 2004.

Looking through this fun book, I couldn’t find any indication that Nebraska used an official logo prior to the script logo popping up in the early nineties. Interestingly, team logos rarely appeared on ticket stubs or game programs prior to then. But since then, of course, the importance of creating a clear brand has come to be considered very important. You’ll find very detailed guides explaining exactly what the official logos are and how to use them (like this one).

Personally, I like the look of the script logo better than the current one. Maybe the black script is too nineties, but even without it, the thicker red outline and the more narrow N look better to me.

Anyway, if you have any info regarding pre-’92 logos, please comment.