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The Tunnel Walk begins

Nebraska dates the Tunnel Walk tradition to 1994. Video coverage let stadium spectators share the team's emergence from the locker room.

Checked 2026-10-15 · Sources: Nebraska Athletics — tunnel

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The sound of the Tunnel Walk

The Alan Parsons Project's instrumental Sirius accompanies Nebraska's Tunnel Walk, linking the team's entrance to a familiar stadium soundtrack.

Checked 2026-10-15 · Sources: Nebraska Athletics — tunnel

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The horseshoe above the door

Players traditionally touch a horseshoe on their way toward the field. Nebraska's account traces it through earlier locker-room locations.

Checked 2026-10-15 · Sources: Nebraska Athletics — tunnel

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A band tradition since the nineteenth century

Nebraska's band formed in 1879. It began marching and performing at football halftime in November 1892.

Checked 2026-10-15 · Sources: Nebraska Athletics — history

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A campus landscape with an academic connection

UNL describes its campuses as botanical gardens and arboreta, connecting their landscapes with the university's history in ecology.

Checked 2026-10-15 · Sources: Nebraska — history

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An early psychology laboratory

UNL identifies the university as the home of the world's first undergraduate psychology laboratory, part of its early research history.

Checked 2026-10-15 · Sources: Nebraska — history

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An arts and literature legacy

UNL connects its early interest in literature and the arts with Prairie Schooner, the University of Nebraska Press and the Sheldon Museum of Art.

Checked 2026-10-15 · Sources: Nebraska — history

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