More Than Winning: The Story of Tom Osborne
At age twenty-eight, when Tom Osborne agreed to join Bob Devaney’s full-time coaching staff at the University of Nebraska, he resolved to be a head coach by the time he reached age thirty-five. Little did he know that this goal would chart his course toward becoming one of the nation’s premier football coaches. Six years later in 1972, Devaney named Osborne as head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. In high school and college, Osborne had been an outstanding athlete in his own right. He...
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At age twenty-eight, when Tom Osborne agreed to join Bob Devaney’s full-time coaching staff at the University of Nebraska, he resolved to be a head coach by the time he reached age thirty-five. Little did he know that this goal would chart his course toward becoming one of the nation’s premier football coaches. Six years later in 1972, Devaney named Osborne as head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. In high school and college, Osborne had been an outstanding athlete in his own right. He went on to play professional football and to earn his master’s and doctorate degrees in educational psychology. Throughout all these years in sports and academics, he was developing his unusual and inspiring philosophy of coaching, which above all emphasizes the process of athletics. In More Than Winning, Osborne gives an in-depth personal account of his life—the forces that shaped his values, his own accomplishments in sports, and his experiences as a coach at Nebraska. He describes his philosophy of coaching, shares personal perspectives on football greats, and gives his view of key Nebraska games up through the 1984 Orange Bowl.
Introduction vForeword xvPreface xviiPrologue: Coming Up Short Again 91 The Effect of Fine Persons 132 Growing Up 233 Discovered in the Mineral Water Bowl 314 Survival 375 Getting off the Fence 456 Following a Legend 537 Silencing the Critics (a Little) 578 Getting the Monkey off our Back... and on It Again 639 Staying Put 6910 The Quarterbacks 7311 The Ideal Athlete 8112 The Linemen 8513 The Heisman Trophy Winners 8914 The Booker Brown Affair 9915 Slowing Down 10916 More Than One Person 11717 A Crash Course in Flying 12518 National Championships and Other Vagaries 12919 The Nebraska Cycle 13520 More Than Winning 14321 A Difficult Road to Walk 153Epilogue: Honoring Him 159
