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...pickup truck, touching off a high-speed chase through Georgia and South Carolina that ended only after the cops shot out his tires. The city of Augusta, which had honored him three years ago with a James Brown Appreciation Day, turned on him. "Enough was enough," says Mayor Charles DeVaney...
...grandfather, Osborne proceeded to Hastings College as a matter of course. Although he might have played longer than his three seasons in the pros, it felt natural for him to return to his home state in 1962 to join the Nebraska staff being assembled by new Coach Bob Devaney...
However, it is fair to say that Saturdays had been bleak for some time (three winning seasons in 21 years) before Devaney arrived in 1962. Unlike Osborne, he did not have to learn how to smile. On a wall of Devaney's office, now the chamber of the athletic director, two tattered hobos are in conference, and one is saying, ". . . then we lost our sixth to Keen State...
...Scenery is not exactly a coach's priority. Duffy Daugherty [who coached Michigan State for 19 years] told me the people loved football and supported the team irregardless of the record. 'Of course,' Duffy said, 'they're more friendly when you win.' " Devaney won immediately and spectacularly. After a 3-6-1 season in 1961, the Cornhuskers took nine of eleven games in Devaney's first year and triumphed 36-34 in the Gotham Bowl, over Miami, incidentally. Nebraska won the national championship in 1970 and repeated in 1971. The latter edition...
Succeeding Devaney in 1973 was not an instant pleasure for Osborne, who has a Ph.D. in educational psychology, the minimum degree of learning required for understanding college football fans. Maintaining a successful football program is less romantic work than constructing one, though no less hazardous. It took ten years, but now Devaney and Osborne each own 100 victories and are coming to be regarded as equal treasures. "I'm just glad to have survived," Osborne says. "We had some 9-3 seasons that were looked at around here as pretty average." It took him a considerable while to beat...