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 Biography: Coach Tom Osborne, formerly of the University of Nebraska, retired as the winningest active football coach in Division I-A, a position he has enjoyed for most of the past decade. Osborne boasts a 255-49-3 career and school record in 25 years and 307 games; three national championships (1994, 1995, 1997); 12 Big Eight Conference crowns; one Big 12 Crown; and took the Huskers to a bowl game every year, continuing Nebraska's 29 straight bowls, on of many NCAA records held by Nebraska. Osborne was a 1997 Paul "Bear" Bryant and an AFCA Coach-of-the-Year Finalist. He was named the national coach-of-the-year by the AFCA in 1994 and by Chevrolet in 1995 after leading his teams to back-to-back national titles, a feat accomplished only nine times and not since 1978-79. Osborne also earned the Distinguished American Award and the Giant Steps Award in 1994-95. Osborne coached 36 years overall at NU which included an 11-year stint as an assistant under Bob Devaney, the man who hired him first as a graduate assistant in 1962. Osbornes's 36 years at NU is the longest tenure ever for a Nebraska coach, and the longest all time in Big Eight/12 history. He is third all time in bowl appearance having taken the Huskers to a bowl game in each of his 25 years. Osborne coached his players to 55 first-team All-America certificates (47 players) won two Heismans (Johnny Rodgers and Mike Rozier), had three Lombardi Award winners (Dave Rimington, Dean Steinkuhler, and Grant Wistrom), six Outland Trophy winners (Rimington, Steinkuhler, Will Shields, Zach Wiegert, and Aaron Taylor), on Butkus winner (Trev Alberts), and a Johnny Unitas Award winner in 1995 (Tommie Frazier). Dr. Tom Osborne was born on February 23, 1937 in Hastings, Nebraska. He attended Hastings High School; earned his B.A. in history from Hastings, where he was the state's athlete-of-the-year in 1959; his M.A. in educational psychology from UNL in 1963; and his Ph.D. in educational psychology from UNL in 1965. He played professionally for the Washington Redskins and the San Francisco 49ers. |
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