NEBRASKA CORNHUSKER & SPORTS MEDIA HISTORY
NEBRASKA CORNHUSKER & SPORTS MEDIA HISTORY
PAUL "JAKE" JACOBSEN
CORNHUSKER MEDIA HISTORIAN
He knows the contents and history of the broadcasts like
some people know scripture.
-Lincoln Journal Star August 24, 2002
TV FEATURES
TV FEATURES
Lance's 'Husker FB Media Man' Journal, May 21, 2018
Lance's 'Husker FB Media Man' Journal, May 21, 2018
A Wahoo man has spent the past 35 years collecting more than a thousand broadcasts of Husker football games.
A Cornhusker fan’s curiosity about a classic husker football game turns into an all-consuming hobby to restore and build his own husker football broadcasts from old film reels and radio calls.
Paul “Jake” Jacobson is what you might call a self-starter. What began as a curiosity from your average Cornhusker fan about a classic husker football game turned into an all-consuming hobby to restore and build his own husker football broadcasts from old film reels and radio calls. In the process, this husker archaeologist has become an unofficial expert on husker archives and built friendships with some former football greats… all while creating something new out of some games he thinks no one should forget.
The Lincoln JournalStar said it best about our guest this week on the Four’em: “He knows the history and the contents of the broadcasts like some people know scripture”. On this edition of the Husker Fan Four’em, Honke talks with Paul "Jake" Jacobsen, a Nebraskan who has dedicated his fandom to archiving and syncing up past Husker football games with the old-time radio calls of the day. Whether it is the 1941 Rose Bowl game vs Stanford or Johnny “The Jet” Rodgers punt return in the Game of the Century (with Lyell Bremser on the call), enjoy this trip down memory lane…GBR!
Nebraska Stories: Do it Yourself Husker Broadcasts
Husker Fan Four'em: Paul Jake Jacobsen. 7.25.2022
RADIO APPEARANCES
RADIO APPEARANCES
NEWSPAPER
NEWSPAPER
Listening to, watching Husker history a hobby for Jacobsen
Listening to, watching Husker history a hobby for Jacobsen
I have never seen a quarterback throw the ball better than Dave Humm today! How do you throw it any better?!
TOUCHDOWN TO WESTBROOK! Dave "The Dealer" rolled to his left! And who did he find?! Donnie Westbrook! "The Cheyenne Kid!"
70 at 50: Husker historian Jacobsen explains the 'emotion' behind listening to 1970 NU football games
70 at 50: Husker historian Jacobsen explains the 'emotion' behind listening to 1970 NU football games
"You get more caught up in the emotion," says Husker historian Paul Jacobsen of listening to a game on the radio. "You have to pay attention. Also, it's really all we had was the radio back then.
