Many people have heard the story of the start of Husker Power, the weightlifting program for the Nebraska football team.
In the 1960s, Tom Osborne, then an assistant coach for the Huskers, introduced head coach Bob Devaney to Boyd Epley and recommended that football players should start lifting weights with Epley.
Devaney allowed it, but said, “If anyone gets slower, you’re fired.”
“That scared me to death, and that’s why I started testing the athletes so often, so I could show him the progress that was being made,” Epley said this week.