Osborne to Receive Daugherty Award

Former Nebraska Head Coach Tom Osborne has been selected as the recipient of the 2005 Duffy Daugherty Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to college football. Osborne will receive the honor at an April 22 banquet in Bath, Mich., north of the Michigan State University campus. The award recognizes Osborne's contributions as one of the most successful coaches in the nation's history.

 

Osborne's 255-49-3 record gives him the fifth-best winning percentage (.836) in the sport's history. He was head coach at Nebraska for 25 years, retiring after the 1997 season. Osborne closed his career by winning three national championships in his final four seasons and compiling a 60-3 record in his final five seasons on the Nebraska sideline.

 

Osborne was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame immediately following his retirement in 1998.  

 

The award is named after Michigan State's head coach from 1954 to 1972. Osborne’s predecessor Bob Devaney, a fellow Hall of Fame coach, was an assistant under Daugherty at Michigan State, before leaving to take the head coaching job at Wyoming. Devaney then moved on to Nebraska at the start of the 1962 season.