[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H71]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    THANKS TO COACH TOM OSBORNE OF THE NEBRASKA CORNHUSKERS ON HIS 
                               RETIREMENT

  (Mr. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, one of the great legends of college 
football retired this season. Dr. Tom Osborne has led the Nebraska 
Cornhuskers for the past 25 years, and everyone who has watched was 
saddened by his departure.
  Tom Osborne is Cornhusker football.
  As a young man, I watched him on the sidelines. A man of honor and 
integrity, a true winner regardless of the outcome of the games.
  I watched him coach through years of close games against Oklahoma, 
near misses for the National Championship, until finally in the past 5 
years he has brought home three National Championship seasons, 
including this year.
  More so than football, what Tom Osborne has provided our State of 
Nebraska and our Nation is a leader who has placed the character 
development of his young men ahead of their football skills. Tom 
Osborne never forgot the lessons he learned growing up in Hastings and 
St. Paul, Nebraska; lessons of faith, values, commitment, doing what 
you said you would do.
  Mr. Speaker, we say to Coach Osborne: Coach, thanks for the memories. 
We are excited to see what is going to happen in the future. We know 
that even though you are retiring, you will continue to instill those 
lessons of faith, character, and development and doing what you said 
you would do into the young lives of Nebraskans and all America.

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