On gamedays in Lincoln, you can still find Anna "Hink" Sahs among the 90,000 fans in Memorial Stadium, cheering and chanting for the Huskers, wearing her favorite red cowboy hat.
In the early 1940s, Sahs and her sister, Betty Kjelson, were among the first Husker cheerleaders, when the stadium capacity was 31,000.
A cocktail party for the Fairbury natives was held at The Landing on Friday, with NU alumni sharing stories of watching the sisters cheer, and current cheerleaders and Herbie Husker on hand.
She began cheerleading in 1943, a time when fans could enter some sections of the stadium for a quarter.