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Can you guess the name of these former Husker football players based on their nicknames? The answers are listed with the player names in this Husker brain teaser.

  • Marvelous? Jarvis RedwineDodger? Roger Craig
  • The Jet? Johnny Rodgers
  • Tough Tony? Tony Davis
  • We-backs? Derek Brown and Calvin Jones
  • The Flyer? Irving Fryar
  • Endzone? Keith Endzone Jones
  • Trainwreck? Tom Trainwreck Novak
  • Light Horse? Harry Wilson
  • Choo Choo? Charlie Winters
  • Zippety? Fred Duda
  • Mad Dog? Jack Hazen
  • Link? William Lyman
  • Slick? Anthony Steels
  • No Pain? Wayne Meylan
  • Mosquito? Chuck Malito
  • Champ? Guy Chamberlain
  • Big Moose? Dave Noble
  • Thunder? Bill Thornton
  • Twinkle Toes? Jim Baffico
  • The Leg? Craig Johnson
  • Tecumseh Tornado? Tony Davis
  • The Fig? or Big Fig? Bob Newton
  • Big Ed? Ed Weir
  • Sandman? Broderick Thomas
  • Earth, Wind and Fryar? Turner Gill, Mike Rozier, and Irving Fryar
  • Smiling Assassin? George Andrews
  • The Iceman? Jamie Williams
  • The Dealer? Dave Humm
  • The Fly? Guy Ingles
  • Blue? Edward E. Howell

    And last but not least"
  • The Triplets?  Turner Gill, Mike Rozier and Irving Fryar coined by former Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer