Heisman Trophy / 1972
#20
Big Red TruthNebraska honors.
Give the success its due
Nebraska honors.
Greatness, on record.
Scrutiny does not mean forgetting what was earned. The trophies. The names. The numbers that became history.
Generated championship illustration · Not an archival photograph
Three Heismans. Three legends.
Official Heisman historyHeisman Trophy / 1983
#30
Mike Rozier
Heisman Trophy / 2001
#7
Eric Crouch
The names that stay.
Nebraska identifies three permanently retired football numbers: Novak’s 60, Rodgers’ 20 and Brown’s 64. Other football jersey honorees’ numbers remain available. A retired jersey is not automatically a retired number.
37 verified honoree entries · 25 football entries; selected other-sport honors
60
Football / Honored 1949
Tom Novak
Permanently retired football number
Four-Time All-Conference
20
Football / Honored 1972
Johnny Rodgers
Permanently retired football number
1972 Heisman/Walter Camp
79
Football / Honored 1972
Rich Glover
Retired jersey
1972 Outland/Lombardi
50
Football / Honored 1982
Dave Rimington
Retired jersey
1981, 1982 Lombardi/1982 Outland
30
Football / Honored 1983
Mike Rozier
Retired jersey
1983 Heisman/Maxwell/Walter Camp
71
Football / Honored 1983
Dean Steinkuhler
Retired jersey
1983 Outland/Lombardi
75
Football / Honored 1994
Larry Jacobson
Retired jersey
1971 Outland
75
Football / Honored 1994
Will Shields
Retired jersey
1992 Outland
34
Football / Honored 1994
Trev Alberts
Retired jersey
1993 Butkus
74
Football / Honored 1995
Zach Wiegert
Retired jersey
1994 Outland
15
Football / Honored 1996
Tommie Frazier
Retired jersey
1995 Johnny Unitas
67
Football / Honored 1998
Aaron Taylor
Retired jersey
1997 Outland
98
Football / Honored 1998
Grant Wistrom
Retired jersey
1997 Lombardi
54
Football / Honored 2002
Dominic Raiola
Retired jersey
2000 Rimington
7
Football / Honored 2002
Eric Crouch
Retired jersey
2001 Heisman/Walter Camp
64
Football / Honored 2004
Bob Brown
Permanently retired football number
College and Pro Football Hall of Fame
93
Football / Honored 2010
Ndamukong Suh
Retired jersey
Outland/Lombardi,Nagurski/Bednarik
33
Football / Honored 2017
Forrest Behm
Retired jersey
College Football Hall of Fame
—
Football / Honored 2017
Guy Chamberlin
Retired jersey
College Football Hall of Fame
38
Football / Honored 2017
Sam Francis
Retired jersey
College Football Hall of Fame
66
Football / Honored 2017
Wayne Meylan
Retired jersey
College Football Hall of Fame
12
Football / Honored 2017
Bobby Reynolds
Retired jersey
College Football Hall of Fame
25
Football / Honored 2017
George Sauer
Retired jersey
College Football Hall of Fame
1
Football / Honored 2017
Clarence Swanson
Retired jersey
College Football Hall of Fame
35
Football / Honored 2017
Ed Weir
Retired jersey
College Football Hall of Fame
42
Men’s basketball / Honored 1986
Dave Hoppen
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
22
Men’s basketball / Honored 1989
Stu Lantz
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
52
Men’s basketball / Honored 2006
Eric Piatkowski
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
10
Men’s basketball / Honored 2017
Tyronn Lue
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
51
Women’s basketball / Honor year not verified
Karen Jennings
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
30
Women’s basketball / Honored 2011
Maurtice Ivy
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
—
Baseball / Honored 2023
Darin Erstad
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
—
Baseball / Honored 2023
Alex Gordon
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
—
Baseball / Honored 2023
Shane Komine
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
—
Volleyball / Honored 1988
Cathy Noth
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
—
Volleyball / Honored 1989
Karen Dahlgren
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
—
Volleyball / Honored 1992
Lori Endicott
Retired jersey
Retired jersey honor; number availability not established by this source
Football reproduces all 25 entries in the official retired-jersey register. Other-sport entries are a selected sourced set, not a complete all-sports list. Blank numbers and honor years are unavailable, not zero. The current availability of non-football numbers is not established here.
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