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Official Site of the Huskers · Jun 9, 2015

Social Media Honored 100-Year-Old Ron Douglas

During the 2014 Nebraska-Minnesota game, 99-year-old Ron Douglas Sr.'s introduction was greeted with great respect.Randy York’s N-Sider

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The only centurion ever to receive two standing ovations in front of a sold-out Memorial Stadium football crowd and a packed Pinnacle Bank Arena basketball throng died quietly Sunday afternoon, June 7, 2015. Family members were with Ron Douglas, 100, in Crete, Neb., where the oldest living Husker student-athlete/football letterman spent all but three years of his life, including two years in California during WWII, after graduating from the University of Nebraska.

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