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	Tom Osborne (Nebraska) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas William "Tom" Osborne (born February 23, 1937 in Hastings, Nebraska) is a former football coach for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and a current Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd congressional district.
		Osborne is generally considered a political conservative, although he has been somewhat in the middle with regards to immigration issues.
		In 2006, Osborne ran for Governor of Nebraska, challenging appointed Governor Dave Heineman and Omaha businessman Dave Nabity in the Republican primary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Osborne_(football_coach) (893 words)

	Football coach Tom Osborne Talks About Fatherhood, from Dadmag.com
		Yes, after retiring from college football with the best winning percentage in the history of the pigskin, and status in the state of Nebraska that might only be rivaled in the Vatican, Osborne is hoping to represent the Third District of Nebraska in the United States Congress.
		But when you look at how Tom's three kids have turned out, you know it's no accident he's as respected and admired by his former players as he is loved by his kids Mike, a marketing professional, daughter Ann who is a housewife and mother and youngest daughter Suzi who is a church youth director.
		Tom Zenner is a television sportscaster for Fox and a free-lance writer in Boston.
	www.dadmag.com /tom_osborne.php (672 words)

	HuskersHQ: Football
		Osborne, who announced last December that he would step down after 25 seasons as the Cornhuskers' head coach, shed some light on his plans for the future at a press conference Friday afternoon.
		Osborne announced plans to teach an undergraduate class called "Coaching of Football" as well as a graduate class titled "Sports in the American University" at the University of Nebraska's teachers college.
		Osborne, who said he initiated the return to teaching, thinks his current situation and the classroom setting will be "a good fit." Osborne also said the opportunity to continue working with young people is appealing.
	www.theindependent.com /HuskersHQ/Stories/springfb98/osborne0321.html (731 words)

	Amazon.ca: Faith in the Game: Lessons on Football, Work, and Life: Books: Tom Osborne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Osborne was the head football coach at the University of Nebraska for 25 years, winning three national championships during that time.
		It is noteworthy that Tom Osborne's success is particularly remarkable because he never had the advantages of recruiting from a deep talent pool in Nebraska, and many of his players came from high school programs where 8 man football was common.
		Coach Osborne's unwavering faith in Jesus, his commitment to his team and his uncommon moral courage are on display throughout the book and should serve as a barometer of our own beliefs.
	www.amazon.ca /Faith-Game-Lessons-Football-Work/dp/1578563925 (1318 words)

	Augusta Georgia: football@ugusta: Nebraska coach Tom Osborne retires 12/10/97
		Osborne, who compiled a record of 254-49-3, will coach the No. 2 Cornhuskers against No. 3 Tennessee in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 2 and said he may stay on until February if he can be of help to the team.
		Osborne said health problems were forcing him to give up the game and that he wanted to spend more time with his family and at church.
		Osborne reached his 250th career victory on Nov. 1 with a 69-7 defeat of Oklahoma, and the Cornhuskers are 59-3 over the past five years with five straight 11-win seasons, an NCAA record.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/121097/mike.shtml (1176 words)

	The Daily Nebraskan News Story
		Osborne told the media her support was important to him during his career.
		Tom Osborne, the football coach with the second-best winning percentage in college football history, retired Wednesday, ending an extraordinary career as the Husker head man.
		When Mike Osborne was a quarterback on the Lincoln East High School football team, his father was rarely in the stands because of another football team across town.
	www.unl.edu /dn/dnextra/supplement/stories/121197/fam.html (457 words)

	Tom Osborne - Nebraska Head Coach 1973-97, Third District Congressman, Governor candidate
		I remember the very first time I met Coach Osborne was when I was the trainer for the North squad in the annual Shrine Bowl game in August of 1973.
		He was graded on his performance every football Saturday and during the course of his coaching career he had the opportunity to impact the lives of thousands of young impressionable student-athletes.
		Tom Osborne is willing to do that and his only client will be the state of Nebraska.
	www.huskerpedia.com /interviews/Tom_Osborne/commentary.html (1105 words)

	Congressman Tom Osborne - Third District of Nebraska - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Osborne's Rural Education Initiative Act Amendment also amended the ESEA reauthorization to allow rural schools to combine selected funds from federal grant money and to establish a baseline of $20,000.
		Additionally, Rep. Osborne was a lead cosponsor of legislation signed into law that works to offer a comprehensive strategy toward addressing suicide, suicide prevention, and mental and behavioral health in high schools and on college campuses.
		Osborne has also introduced and championed legislation that would establish a Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), a provision that increases the use of renewable fuels to 5 billion gallons by 2012.
	www.house.gov /osborne/biography.htm (546 words)

	HuskersHQ: Football
		Osborne retired from the football coaching ranks after 25 seasons as NU's head coach and 36 years with the program.
		Osborne received the Amos Alonzo Stag coach of the year award as well as the Chevrolet national coach of the year award.
		Osborne also thanked his players and coaching staff as well as his wife, Nancy, and his family for the support they provided during his coaching career.
	www.theindependent.com /HuskersHQ/Stories/springfb98/osborne0425.html (833 words)

	College Football Hall of Fame
		He was all-state in football and basketball, won the state discus throw in track, and was named the state's High School Athlete of the Year in 1955.
		He was in the class of 1959, quarterbacked the football team and was named the state's College Athlete of the Year.
		Tom and his wife Nancy formed the Osborne Foundation to assist youth education.
	www.collegefootball.org /famersearch.php?id=80020 (364 words)

	ESPN.com: GEN - Osborne finds politics and sports do mix
		Tom Osborne has moved from the football field to the political arena, but remains focused on issues that could have ill effects on impressionable youth.
		But on sports issues, the former Nebraska football coach turned Nebraska congressman may as well be a liberal -- eager as he is to stick government's nose into the affairs of private businesses and citizens.
		After all, Osborne loved his linemen big and beefy when he was coach at Nebraska, and they didn't all get that way in the weight room.
	espn.go.com /columns/farrey_tom/1443631.html (1198 words)

	Former Montreal QB Gill looking to build winning Bulls football program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The football department offices are in a separate building a short walk from the stadium, and Gill spoke to The Canadian Press in a spacious coaches lounge filled with framed football pictures and two leather couches.
		Gill is the 23rd coach in Bulls history - and the second to have CFL ties.
		"Tom Osborne taught me how to tell each and every person what their value is to our football team," said Gill, who spent 2005 as an assistant coach-player development director with the NFL's Green Bay Packers.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/football/061016/f101691.html (1423 words)

	Tom Osborne
		Awards Tom Osborne was among the winners during the College Football Awards at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex Dec, 10,1999 where he received the Home Depot Coach of the Decade Award.
		Osborne was honored for his 79-11-1 record and three national championships during the 1990s.
		Osborne said he could not have done it without the excellent support of his wife, Nancy, and the great coaching staff at Nebraska.
	members.tripod.com /sharkfeet/CornhuskersTomOsborne.htm (389 words)

	Hard to hold - retirement of University of Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne - includes related article on possible ...
		Osborne is a man of contradictions, another reminder of how exceedingly decent men can rationalize compromising their standards from the rest of their lives to build or maintain a winning program.
		Osborne suspended Phillips, his star running back, for six midseason games in 1995 for assaulting his former girlfriend, but reinstated him later in the season--and used him extensively in the Fiesta Bowl.
		Osborne could rationalize that, deciding that to banish a young man from a disadvantaged background would be counterproductive to Phillips and to society in the long run.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n51_v221/ai_20108586 (897 words)

	The silent plainsman - Nebraska coach Tom Osborne - College Bowl Preview Sporting News, The - Find Articles
		Tom Osborne is a man hard to know, as near and as far as a prairie horizon.
		Osborne muttered a "dadgummit" under his breath while he polite assisted the officer and McBride in a search for the license.
		Osborne was 4 when his father, Charles, went off to fight, and 9 when he returned.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n25_v218/ai_16015249 (948 words)

	’Husker firings disappoint Osborne - College football - MSNBC.com
		Osborne, who guided the Cornhuskers to three national titles in the 1990s, retired after the Huskers' 1997 season because of a heart condition and to spend more time with his family.
		Osborne said Friday he would still allow their names to be used, but would prefer that they be removed if a booster or corporate sponsor step forward and want the honor.
		Osborne took over the Nebraska football program in 1973 at the age of 34 after serving as an assistant to Devaney for 11 years.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4202741 (681 words)

	Coaches -- Osborne -- Huskerpedia
		Osborne received his master's degree in 1963 and his doctorate in educational psychology in 1965.
		Osborne (pronounced OZ-burn, not OZ-born) was born Feb. 23, 1937.
		Osborne was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd Congressional District in November of 2000.
	www.huskerpedia.com /osborne.html (405 words)

	SWOSU Athletics \| Football \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Second-year coach Ryan Held is hard at work at the most ambitious construction project in his young coaching career.
		The Bulldogs football leader diligently worked his role as the head football coach - developing strategy, competing fiercely, building relationships with SWOSU alumni and fans - it's all part of what makes him so passionate about the job and why many believe SWOSU will be a winner in the very near future.
		Held's career head coaching record is 20-34 (.370) which includes a 14-19 record in three seasons at OPSU and a 5-5 year as a 25-year old head coach at Peru State in 2001.
	www.swosu.edu /athletics/football/coaches/held-ryan.asp (501 words)

	Tom Osborne - Congresspedia
		Thomas William Osborne is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd Congressional district (map).
		Osborne was born February 23, 1937 in Hastings, Nebraska.
		He is the former football coach for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Tom_Osborne (563 words)

	News from Union College - Nov. 9, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		During his 25-year career as the Huskers head coach, Osborne led the team to three national championships.
		After retiring from football in 1997, Osborne was elected to United States Congress in 2000, and on Nov. 2, he was elected to his third term in office.
		Osborne spoke about blending spiritual convictions into a secular world by using scripture and athletic metaphors.
	www.ucollege.edu /PUBLICRELATIONS/NEWS/2004-2005/TOMOSBORNE.HTM (220 words)

	2/11/2002 - Coach Tom Osborne Urges Young People To Make Spiritual Commitment - Church - Chattanoogan.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Coach Osborne, who is now in Congress, said morning devotions and regular team prayers were part of his routine for his highly successful football team.
		Afterwards, he said he became an assistant coach to Bob Devaney and vowed to become a head coach in Division I by the time he was 35.
		Tom Osborne went on to win three national championships in 25 years as the Nebraska coach.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_17839.asp (478 words)

	Billy Joe Hobert
		During the 25 years that Tom Osborne was the head football coach at the University of Nebraska, he showed his players that being disciplined was the first step toward being a winner—in life and on the football field.
		Osborne uses the same formula for himself so he will experience the fullness of God in his life.
		While coaching at Nebraska, Osborne daily led his coaches in prayer and approached each season thankful for the opportunity to share God’s goodness with his players.
	www.christiansportsminute.com /tom_osborne.htm (472 words)

	University at Buffalo - Football - Go Bulls!
		Gill, who was part of three national championships as a coach at the University of Nebraska and a Heisman Trophy finalist as a player, agreed to a five-year contract to become the 23rd head football coach at the University at Buffalo on December 16, 2005.
		As a coach, to be on the sidelines for three national championships and to have coached an individual who won the Heisman Trophy.
		During the height of Nebraska football in the 1990s, with Gill serving as quarterbacks coach, the Cornhuskers had unprecedented success at both the quarterback position and as a team.
	www.ubathletics.buffalo.edu /football/coaches/gill.shtml (1338 words)

	Pittsburgh Sports Report - Up Close With PSR Tom Osborne
		Former University of Nebraska head football coach Tom Osborne was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000.
		Tom Osborne: I think there's a time in almost every person's life when they have to decide what they're going to do about a spiritual stance, and I guess for me that was between my sophomore and junior years in college.
		I began to realize that was part of it, but there is also aggressiveness to Christianity; that it is an active faith, not a passive faith, and you could be an athlete or someone who is aggressive and still adhere to Christian principle.
	www.pghsports.com /2004-Issues/psr0405/04050103.html (790 words)

	Football - Pacific Lutheran University - Tacoma, Washington
		Now retired Pacific Lutheran University football head coach Frosty Westering is a member of a select fraternity: college football coaches who have won at least 300 games.
		Westering, a football letter-winner at both Northwestern and Nebraska-Omaha and a Marine drill instructor, has written a book, Make The Big Time Where You Are, which deals with his double-win philosophy.
		Pacific Lutheran football players also portrayed excellence in the classroom and in the community, where they are role models for hundreds of youth in the Parkland area through their personal involvement at several Tacoma area schools.
	www.plu.edu /~athletic/football/Frosty_files/Frosty.htm (683 words)

	Meet Coach Paterno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tom Osborne of Nebraska received the award in 1995, then the second active coach to be cited.
		I don't imagine there is another football coach in the country who can say that he's read the 'Aeneid' in Latin and loved it.
		Paterno was the first coach to receive the award, which honors football players and coaches who actively serve mankind and strive for academic and athletic excellence.
	www.psu.edu /sports/football/Paterno/paternobio.html (4431 words)

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