1983 UCLA @ #1 Nebraska No Huddle

1983 UCLA Bruins @ #1 Nebraska Cornhuskers

[@gregdavis19]

After watching several of these 1983 game you put out I never realized how much Turner Gill fumbled. Thank you for putting these together.

[@jeffreyk5734]

Oh man, Schellen with an explosive run on the trap and fumbles! 3 consecutive turnovers by Nebraska, We always had a great full-back and Mark was one of the best. People forget that He would probably not have been the starter as a senior had Doug Wilkening had come back for his senior year. Wilkening was a very powerful runner. One of the things you see in these games is the full-back actually carried the ball allot. They weren't just blocking for the I-Backs. I watched the 1983 game at Still-Water against a very good Oklahoma State team. We only won that game 14-10 partly due to 5 tournovers. 4 of them in the first half. Anyway, Schellen, must have had well over 15 carries in that game.

[@richardblaine1130]

Incredible run by Rozier in the 3rd quarter

[@jeffreyk5734]

I'd forgotten that Rozier had that long touchdown run called back for clipping on the second possession. I think Mike would have scored, if there had been a clip or not. It was a cool play because Mike came around on a reverse. He wasn't lined up at the back of the I-formation. Offset with two Backs. Jeff Smith was an excellent back for us too. And he was actually in the game already on the first series. Smith and Rozier's running styles couldn't have been much more different, but both were very effective.

[@jeffreyk5734]

Nice run on the interception for the score by Dave Burke who was a converted I-Back. Burke ran for around 600 yards on the Freshman team in 1980. Really good player when healthy.

[@jeffreyk5734]

Sophomore I-Back, Paul "Time Traveler" Miles running all over the field on that last drive. You can see the incredible acceleration. They nicknamed Miles "Tme Traveler" because he ran an unheard of 4.28 in the 40! At the time, he was the fastest running back in Nebraska football history. Second fastest player on the team behind Irving Frayer's blistering 4.23. They should have given him the score when down to the one, but Osborne refused to rub it in. Paul seemed destined for greatness. Ultimately, due to injuries, Miles only started a couple of games at Nebraska in his Senior year. I think he did have back to back 150 plus yard games in the early part of the 1985 season when Doug DuBose was out with an injury.

[@gregdavis19]

My goodness how do you remember all these things?! 1985 was almost 40 years ago and I was 23. You are simply amazing my friend.

[@jeffreyk5734]

Thanks for the compliment. I remember the teams for the 80's and 90's really well. I was a senior in High School when Rozier won the Heisman in 1983. Down to the last, I was afraid someone else would be named the winner. Maybe Steve Young the quarterback from BYU? I can tell you the jersey numbers of almost every player in the top 2 or 3 units on the 1981- 88 squads. Maybe not '89 or 90. 93- 200. probably 2003, I recall pretty well. The more recent teams I am not nearly as versed on.@@gregdavis19

[@jeffreyk5734]

I was 19 in 1985. Speaking of Full-Backs I think that Tom Rathman ran for over 900 yards that year his senior season. Most likely still a season record for Husker Fullbacks. Meantime, DuBose at I-back, in spite of missing 3 out of the first 4 games ran for around 1,200 yards. The speed on that team was unreal. Overall, faster then the '83 team. Much faster on defense. But somehow we still got trounced by Oklahoma. The 1988 team also overall was allot faster than the '83 team. Many fans probably don't realize that. @@gregdavis19

[@Sheisthedevilyouknowwho-ft9we]

I was young back then, but I remember him getting some action in 84, 85. Read about all-time 40 times years ago. Miles was a burner. I was too young back then, seeing stuff now, Fryar was underutilized. He could fly too. Then the long NFL career after he got out of N.E. We had no cable TV in 86, it was such depressing news when dubose got injured, he was special. Not many games on tv back then if you had no cable. I see games now, & now I understand better why dubose was amazing before the injury

[@jeffreyk5734]

@@Sheisthedevilyouknowwho-ft9we DuBose ran 4.32 himself. I have always believed that he would have been in the thick of the Heisman Trophy race all through the 1986, if he had been able to play. Keith Jones was very Green when thrust into the starting job even though a non-Redshirt Jr. It's to bad Keith didn't Redshirt in '85 as he didn't get on the field enough to justify not doing so. Only played as a reserve and on Kickoff returns. And the Huskers should have used Jon Kelley more, who had broke Irving Fryar's school record in the Athletic Index. Plus he was 30 pounds heavier then Jones and very nearly as fast. Never understood why Jon struggled for playing time for 3 seasons. So much wasted potential there.

[@FodorPupil]

That Rozier run.

[@jeffreyk5734]

People harp on Rozier's injured plagued Pro career, even though he made two Pro Bowls. What has been forgotten, is Mike virtually replicated the famous 2 yard TD run where he probably covered over 40 yards in the UCLA game not once but twice with the Houston Oilers. The first was in the playoff game against the Sea Hawks after the 1987 strike shortened season. The second was in a game vs the Bengals in 1988. One to the left side of the field and the other to the right both in the 4 to 5 yard range. I wish there was footage of the UCLA run and those two back to back Oilers touchdowns on KZbin or someplace.

[@FodorPupil]

Wow, I would LOVE to see those!!!!!!!!! GBR@@jeffreyk5734

[@davidheckman4188]

'83 nebraska are easily alltime greats offensively, they needed there '84 defense(1 in the country), a week schedule did not help them in ITLR

[@Rcknroler913]

Nebraska tried to give this one away.

[@timothyball7502]

Bizarre to see a white N on the field. 10-27-2021

[@timothyball7502]

1983, none of those have an idea about Covid from 2019 to 2021, bummed. 10-27-2021

[@truthyahweh9877]

Ya and 1 end zone is white and the other red Nebraska and Huskers

[@maximusaurelius610]

i wonder how many of these people are suffering from CTE today

[@recessionfilmsAZ]

Was Cephus the best player on the field? FB for UCLA

[@tylerholcomb1468]

No. Not even close. Nebraska's Irving Fryar was the first overall pick in the 1984 draft. Also Nebraska's Mike Rozier won the heisman in 1983.

[@rooh5825]

@@tylerholcomb1468 - Dean Steinkuhler was the best player on the field.

[@Trusted_Advisor]

Excellent no doubt - so many great players on they field though.

[@jeffreyk5734]

How many yards did Jeff Smith have in this game? He must have been close to or over a hundred. Paul Miles was the number 3 I-Back and he was pegged as being the next great one. Miles had blazing speed. Had a pretty good year in 83 backing up Rozier and Smith. Alas, he got injured early in the '84 season missing about 6 games or so, and Doug DuBose took over. Smith if he hadn't struggled with injures and missed a few games could have had a huge senior year. He came back late in the season and finished with around 950 yards, but DuBose emerged and rushed for over a1000 yards with 1,040 despite only starting maybe 5 games. @@Trusted_Advisor

[@charleskeefer9030]

Total raisinettes.

[@DMS-pq8]

83 Nebraska is the most overrated team in history, Yes they were good but they benefited from a weak schedule as the only team they played that finished with fewer then 4 loses was the Miami team that beat them

[@dicktracy762]

No. They were very good. They led the nation in rushing attempts, yards, yards per game, yards per carry, touchdowns, and first downs. They rushed for 66 tds in 12 games, averaged 401.7 rush tards per game, and scored 54.5 points per game which I think is second all time to Army in Davis/Blanchard years. These totals are pretty good against the Little Sisters of the Poor. Heck, they are pretty good against air. Nebraska might not have had the raw athletic talent of some of the other top teams but they were very physical and good fundamentally and played well together as a team. They almost beat Miami and the Caines probably had better athletes all around.

[@DMS-pq8]

@@dicktracy762 Not saying they didn't have good teams Just saying playing in a weak conference where OU was their only real competition made they program look stronger than it was, All you have to do is look at what happened to the Nebraska program when they started playing in better conferences like the BIG 12 and BIG 10

[@KEP3365]

Ridiculous comment

[@DMS-pq8]

@@KEP3365 Facts are Facts

[@jdvandy8528]

Blah blah their were plenty of solid teams in given years in the big 8 .. was no different than any other conference or team .. everyone played some bad teams and good teams .. if not fir shady players on the take like fryer they would’ve beat Miami