Longtime Husker team doctor remembered as 'excellent, compassionate' servant

Dr. Pat Clare patrolled the sidelines of Memorial Stadium as the Huskers’ team physician for more than four decades, the kind of position that made him Nebraska’s version of a doctor to the stars.

As a Husker football player himself, intimately familiar with both the ferocity of the game as well as the demands placed on the student athlete, Clare found patients with names like Turner Gill, Tommie Frazier and Brook Berringer under his charge.

A founding member of Nebraska Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, where he worked until his retirement in 2015, Clare was also responsible for countless repairs to knees and ankles, hips and shoulders, and more.

Tim Clare, a member of the University of…