1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football
Fiesta Bowl, L 17–41 vs. Florida State
Conference	Big Eight Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 12
AP	No. 11
Record	10–2 (6–1 Big 8)
Head coach	Tom Osborne (17th season);
Offensive scheme	I formation
Defensive coordinator	Charlie McBride (9th season)
Base defense	3–4
Home stadium	Memorial Stadium
	Seasons ← 1988 1990 →

1989 Big Eight Conference football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 4 Colorado $	7	–	0	–	0	11	–	1	–	0
No. 11 Nebraska	6	–	1	–	0	10	–	2	–	0
Oklahoma	5	–	2	–	0	7	–	4	–	0
Iowa State	4	–	3	–	0	6	–	5	–	0
Oklahoma State	3	–	4	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Kansas	2	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Missouri	1	–	6	–	0	2	–	9	–	0
Kansas State	0	–	7	–	0	1	–	10	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll

The 1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 9	1:30 pm	Northern Illinois*	No. 4	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE		W 48–17	76,194
September 16	1:30 pm	Utah*	No. 4	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE		W 42–30	76,333
September 23	7:00 pm	at Minnesota*	No. 3	Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis, MN (rivalry)		W 48–0	58,368
September 30	1:30 pm	Oregon State*	No. 3	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE		W 35–7	76,290
October 7	1:30 pm	Kansas State	No. 4	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE (rivalry)		W 58–7	76,265
October 14	1:30 pm	at Missouri	No. 4	Faurot Field Columbia, MO (rivalry)	PPV	W 50–7	55,620
October 21	1:30 pm	at Oklahoma State	No. 4	Lewis Field Stillwater OK		W 48–23	40,000
October 28	1:30 pm	Iowa State	No. 4	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE		W 49–17	76,371
November 4	1:30 pm	at No. 2 Colorado	No. 3	Folsom Field Boulder, CO (rivalry)	CBS	L 21–27	52,877
November 11	1:30 pm	Kansas	No. 6	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE (rivalry)		W 51–14	76,232
November 18	1:30 pm	Oklahoma	No. 6	Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE (rivalry)		W 42–25	76,404
January 1, 1990	3:30 pm	vs. No. 5 Florida State*	No. 6	Sun Devil Stadium Tempe, Arizona (Fiesta Bowl)	NBC	L 17–41	73,953
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Central time

Roster and coaching staff

1989 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team roster

Players

Coaches

Offense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
IB	`4`	George Achola	So
SE	`82`	Chip Bahe	Sr
IB		Andrew Scott Baldwin	So
SE		Paul Baumert	So
WB	`21`	Richard Bell	Sr
G	`69`	Bill Bobbora	Sr
WB	`81`	Lance Bobolz	Jr
OT	`76`	Brian Boerboom	So
SE	`31`	Jon Bostick	So
FB	`29`	Bryan Carpenter	Sr
G	`65`	Jeff Chaney	So
C		Terris Chorney	So
IB	`32`	Ken Clark	Sr
TE	`98`	Joe D'Alesio	Sr
OT		Jason Daniel	So
WB	`6`	Brad Devall	Jr
OT		Monte Dickson	So
WB	`11`	Mark Dowse	So
QB	`12`	Jerry Dunlap	Jr
QB		Pete Maletto	Jr
C	`58`	David Edeal	Jr
OT	`73`	Steve Engstrom	Jr
OT		Terry Eyman	Jr
C	`52`	Roger Fitzke	Sr
IB	`23`	Leodis Flowers	So
TE	`80`	Chris Garrett	So
QB	`14`	Gerry Gdowski	Sr
FB		Robert Glantz	So
OT	`70`	Doug Glaser	Sr
QB	`1`	Mike Grant	So
SE	`19`	Morgan Gregory	Sr
QB	`15`	Tom Haase	So
WB	`33`	Tyrone Hughes	Fr
FB	`41`	Tim Johnk	So
OT		Mike Johnston	So
QB	`2`	Mickey Joseph	So
G	`62`	Erik Kiehn	Jr
FB		Jerry Kleidosty	So
TE	`85`	Monte Kratzenstein	Sr
G		Pat Kudrna	So
TE		Doug Langemeier	So
TE		Daryl Leise	So
G	`67`	Rob Leuck	Sr
FB	`18`	Lance Lewis	So
TE		Bill Liska
QB	`10`	Keithen McCant	So
SE	`83`	Tim McCoy	Sr
IB		Andre McDuffy	So
G	`54`	Chris O'Gara	Sr
TE		John Parrella	So
G		Scott Peterson	So
SE		Dan Pleasant	So
WB		Kelly Prater	So
OT	`78`	Tom Punt	Jr
OT		Ray Reifenrath	So
IB	`20`	Terry Rodgers	Sr
G	`64`	John Roschal	Sr
G	`64`	Brad Rother	Sr
FB	`25`	Sam Schmidt	Sr
G	`75`	Will Shields	Fr
FB	`34`	Omar Soto	Jr
WB	`22`	Nate Turner	So
G	`66`	Jim Wanek	Jr
TE	`89`	William Washington	Fr
WB		Lamont White	So
G	`61`	Erik Wiegert	So
C	`68`	Jake Young	Sr
C	`53`	Bill Ziegelbein	So

Defense

Pos.	#	Name	Class
CB	`28`	Eric Anderson	Jr
DT	`90`	Le Andre Anderson	Jr
ILB		Alvin Banks	So
DT	`94`	Brian Brown	So
DT	`95`	Paul Brungardt	Jr
FS	`8`	Tyrone Byrd	Fr
ILB	`49`	Chris Caliendo	Sr
OLB		Kylin Camp	So
FS	`31`	Steve Carmer	So
SS	`17`	Reggie Cooper	Jr
SS	`24`	Curtis Cotton	So
CB	`45`	Jon Crippen	Jr
OLB	`88`	Mike Croel	Jr
SS	`7`	Jim Dobesh
SS		Darin Duin	So
MG	`63`	Brian Edgren	Jr
MG	`97`	Pat Engelbert	So
ILB	`43`	Shane Geiken	So
CB		Sam Goff	So
ILB	`39`	Mark Hagge	Sr
OLB	`92`	Corey Hedrick	Jr
CB	`9`	Robert Hicks	Jr
OLB	`93`	Travis Hill	Fr
ILB	`55`	Randall Jobman	Sr
MG		Greg Koellner	So
OLB		Justin Krantz	So
ILB	`35`	Scott Kurtz	Jr
CB	`3`	Tyrone Legette	So
CB	`5`	Tahaun Lewis	Jr
DT	`99`	Kevin Miller	Sr
OLB	`42`	Jeff Mills	Sr
CB		Steve Mitchell	So
ILB	`46`	Brian Mohnsen	So
MG	`13`	Junior Monarrez	Sr
MG	`74`	Mike Murray	Sr
FS		Scott Olson	Jr
ILB	`37`	Mike Petko	So
CB	`38`	Bruce Pickens	Jr
OLB	`83`	Brad Reilly	Jr
FS	`6`	John Reece	Fr
FS	`26`	Marvin Sanders	Sr
DT	`56`	Joe Sims	Jr
OLB	`86`	Joe Spitzenberger	Jr
OLB	`87`	Dan Svehla	Jr
OLB	`87`	Matt Svehla	Jr
FS	`1`	Will Thomas	So
ILB	`40`	Pat Tyrance	Jr
DT	`75`	Ray Valladao	Sr
DT	`57`	Kenny Walker	Jr
DT	`91`	Kent Wells	Sr
OLB	`84`	Rick Wendland	Jr
OLB	`96`	David White	Fr
SS	`27`	Freeman White	So
ILB		Paul Wightman	So
SS		Gordon Wilson	So
ILB	`51`	Andrew Zacharias	So

Special teams

Pos.	#	Name	Class
PK	`44`	Gregg Barrios	Jr
P	`48`	Scott Beckler	Sr
PK	`36`	Todd Bennett	Jr
PK	`16`	Chris Drennan	Sr
P		Chuck Humphrey	So
P/PK	`7`	Tom Janky	Jr
P		Shawn Liliedahl	So
P	`47`	Mike Stigge	Fr

Head coach

Tom Osborne
   17th season
   26th year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Nebraska

Coordinators/assistant coaches

Charlie McBride
   9th season as DC/DL coach
   13th year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Colorado
Kevin Steele
   1st season as LB coach
   1st year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Tennessee
Ron Brown
   3rd season as WR/TE coach
   3rd year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Brown
Dan Young
   7th season as OL/K coach
   7th year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Reed
Milt Tenopir
   16th season as OL coach
   16th year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Sterling
Tony Samuel
   4th season as OLB coach
   4th year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Nebraska
George Darlington
   DB coach
   17th year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Rutgers
Frank Solich
   7th season as RB coach
   11th year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Nebraska
Boyd Epley
   21st season as S&C coach
   21st year at Nebraska
   Alma mater: Nebraska
Jack Pierce
11th year at Nebraska

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible

Injured
Redshirt

Roster
Last update: 2011-01-17

Depth chart

Defense

FS
Tyrone Byrd
Marvin Sanders
Will Thomas

OUTSIDE	INSDIE	INSDIE	OUTSIDE
Jeff Mills	Mike Petko	Pat Tyrance	Mike Croel
Travis Hill	Randall Jobman	Chris Caliendo	David White
Joe Spitzenberger	Mark Hagge	Scott Kurtz	Dan Svehla

SS
Reggie Cooper
Curtis Cotton
Freeman White

CB
Bruce Pickens
Jon Crippen
Robert Hicks

DE	NT	DE
Ray Valladao	Mike Murray	Kent Wells
Joe Sims	Pat Engelbert	Kenny Walker
Paul Brungardt	Junior Monarrez	Le Andre Anderson

CB
Tahaun Lewis
Tyrone Legette
John Reece

Offense

WR
Jon Bostick Morgan Gregory
Chip Bahe
⋅

LT	LG	C	RG	RT
Tom Punt	Jim Wanek	Jake Young	Bill Bobbora	Doug Glaser
Terry Eyman	Jon Roschal	David Edeal	Erik Wiegert	Brian Boerboom
Brain Boerboom	Will Shields	Roger Fitzke	Chris O'Gara	Steve Engstrom

TE
Monte Kratzenstein
Chris Garrett
William Washington

WR
Richard Bell
Nate Turner
Tyrone Hughes

QB
Gerry Gdowski
Mike Grant Mickey Joseph
Jerry Dunlap

RB
Ken Clark
Leodis Flowers
Terry Rodgers Andre McDuffy

FB
Bryan Carpenter
Sam Schmidt
Tim Johnk

Special teams
PK Greg Barrios
P Mike Stigge

Game summaries

Northern Illinois

Northern Illinois at Nebraska [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Northern Illinois	7	10	0	0	17
• Nebraska	7	10	21	10	48

Date: 1989-09-09
Location: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska
Game attendance: 76,194

Utah

Utah at Nebraska [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Utah	13	3	0	14	30
• Nebraska	7	14	7	14	42

Date: 1989-09-16
Location: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska
Game attendance: 76,333

Minnesota

Nebraska at Minnesota [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Nebraska	7	17	10	14	48
Minnesota	0	0	0	0	0

Date: 1989-09-23
Location: Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis
Game attendance: 58,368

Oregon State

Oregon State at Nebraska [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Oregon State	0	0	7	0	7
• Nebraska	7	7	7	14	35

Date: 1989-09-30
Location: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska
Game attendance: 76,290

Kansas State

Kansas State at Nebraska [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Kansas State	0	0	7	0	7
• Nebraska	14	21	23	0	58

Date: 1989-10-07
Location: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska
Game attendance: 76,265

Missouri

Nebraska at Missouri [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Nebraska	26	10	7	7	50
Missouri	0	0	7	0	7

Date: 1989-10-14
Location: Faurot Field, Columbia, Missouri
Game attendance: 55,620

Oklahoma State

Nebraska at Oklahoma State [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
• Nebraska	10	10	14	14	48
Oklahoma State	3	10	3	7	23

Date: 1989-10-21
Location: Lewis Field, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Game attendance: 40,000

Iowa State

Iowa State at Nebraska [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Iowa State	7	3	7	0	17
• Nebraska	14	14	14	7	49

Date: 1989-10-28
Location: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska
Game attendance: 52,877

Colorado

Nebraska at Colorado [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Nebraska	7	7	7	0	21
• Colorado	14	3	7	3	27

Date: 1989-11-04
Location: Folsom Field, Boulder, Colorado
Game attendance: 52,877

Kansas

Kansas at Nebraska [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Kansas	7	0	7	0	14
• Nebraska	16	7	21	7	51

Date: 1989-11-11
Location: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska
Game attendance: 76,232

Oklahoma

Oklahoma at Nebraska [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Oklahoma	7	11	0	7	25
• Nebraska	22	3	14	3	42

Date: 1989-11-18
Location: Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska
Game attendance: 76,404

Florida State

Nebraska vs Florida State [box score]

	1	2	3	4	Total
Nebraska	7	3	0	7	17
• Florida State	0	21	20	0	41

Date: 1990-01-01
Location: Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Arizona
Game attendance: 73,953

Rankings

Ranking movements
**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Final
AP	3	4	4	3	3	4	4	4	4	3	6	6	6	7	6	6	11
Coaches																	12

Awards

^[1]

Award	Name(s)
All-America 1st team	Doug Glaser, Jake Young
All-America 2nd team	Reggie Cooper
All-America 3rd team	Ken Clark
Big 8 Offensive Player of the Year	Gerry Gdowski
Big 8 Defensive Freshman of the Year	Tyrone Byrd
All-Big 8 1st team	Ken Clark, Reggie Cooper, Gerry Gdowski, Doug Glaser, Jeff Mills, Bruce Pickens, Pat Tyrance, Kent Wells, Jake Young
All-Big 8 2nd team	Mike Croel, Mike Murray, William Washington
All-Big 8 honorable mention	Gregg Barrios, Richard Bell, Tyrone Byrd, Bryan Carpenter, Morgan Gregory, Randall Jobman, Tahaun Lewis, Mike Petko, Marvin Sanders, Jim Wanek

NFL and pro players

The following Nebraska players who participated in the 1989 season later moved on to the next level and joined a professional or semi-pro team as draftees or free agents.^[2]

Name	Team
Richard Bell	Pittsburgh Steelers
Terris Chorney	Edmonton Eskimos
Ken Clark	Indianapolis Colts
Reggie Cooper	Dallas Cowboys
Mike Croel	Denver Broncos
LeRoy Etienne	San Francisco 49ers
Travis Hill	Cleveland Browns
Tyrone Hughes	New Orleans Saints
Keithen McCant	Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Jeff Mills	San Diego Chargers
John Parrella	Buffalo Bills
Bruce Pickens	Atlanta Falcons
John Reece	Kansas City Chiefs
Will Shields	Kansas City Chiefs
Joe Sims	Atlanta Falcons
Nate Turner	Buffalo Bills
Kenny Walker	Denver Broncos
Kent Wells	New York Giants
David White	New England Patriots

References

^ 1989 Husker Honors
^ "All Time NFL Huskers". Archived from the original on August 15, 2009. Retrieved May 15, 2009.

[1] 1989 Husker Honors

[2] "All Time NFL Huskers". Archived from the original on August 15, 2009. Retrieved May 15, 2009.

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