Shields’ Halloween Trick Capped Buff-Bashing Treat

Double Hall-of-Famer Will Shields rumbled 16 yards on a third-and-four Fumblerooskie trick play against Colorado in 1992.YouTube: Relive '92 Halloween Fumblerooskie

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Since Saturday is a ghoulish holiday, Nebraska needs a feel-good story that harkens back to the most historic, hallowed, Husker Homecoming Halloween ever…October 31st, 1992, a day that will live in infamy for Colorado football fans, and one that will warm the heart of every Big Red fan who saw Nebraska use a Will Shields’ trick to cap a Buff-bashing treat inside Memorial Stadium.

Through the years, Nebraska has won 17 of its 18 Halloween games, including a 25-21 homecoming upset of…