MAKE THE MOST OF A CHANCE
Nebraska was not the first choice for the Chicago School Mount Caramel High star. "I was hired by George Kelly, an instructor at Marquette University was," the judge said McGinn. McGinn does not have much time in Marquette and was followed by a call to seminary but soon found the priesthood was not for him.
"I have some letters to different universities," said McGinn. His approach is a direct mail response from an old friend. George Kelly was nowDevaney is a coach in Nebraska. "Kelly told me he had a scholarship to come to me and to themselves."
McGinn has packed his bags and headed for Lincoln. It was 1962 and there was great excitement in Lincoln. On his first day in Nebraska was a bit 'but stressful. "I flunked the physical," said McGinn. "I hurt my shoulder in high school, and had to be resolved."
McGinn is not much time to get down on the problem, though. "Coach Devaney came to me and told me not toThe fear that they would fix things. "
"Pre-season practice was not so hard to Nebraska, as he was in high school," McGinn says. "We had some breaks were allowed, if it was hot and there was salt water and lemon and orange slices for us.
The practices of the regular season were lighter. We have a lot of gymnastics. If you played on Saturday, we did not have the offensive line next week. "Football is fun, this is time again to protect attack and defense. Yes,He played on both sides of the ball.
McGinn concentrate on his studies and his development as a dentist. But that quickly changed, too. "I have a D in chemistry, so I enrolled in two Arts and Sciences and College Teachers," McGinn said. He wanted to be a coach.
McGinn does not get to go to the first bowl game Devaney era, was inadmissible because the transfer. The Huskers went to the Gotham Bowl in New York and beat Miami in a frostSqueaker, 36-34.
The following year he was part of a style of Oklahoma 5 / 4 defense. "There were five linemen and two linebackers on the guards," he said. Nebraska has also been a change in the process of sub pictures in which McGinn would come for All-American Bob Brown.
"There are some players who were happy to see the opposition come to me after they had to do with Brown for a while '." Brown was 6 '5 "and 270, and McGinn was right at 6 'and 205, almost exactly what it is today. Notall members of the team was a giant. There was also a very hard man from Cleveland in the backfield by the name of Frank Solice.
McGinn continued his strength and size to work. The famous Husker Power strength program was still a few years away. "In those days there were a series of weights in the construction of Sears and a large bar in the basement of the Colosseum," he said.
The excitement was building at a record pace, and with him began to push people out of the sea of redland on the south side of the stadium. "At that time I was a senior, South Stadium was finished," he recalled. Along with the new space for the few faithful were warmer and sunnier bowl appearances. Auburn beat Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, 1963, 13-7.
"We played Arkansas in the 1964 Cotton Bowl, leaving them covered most of the game, but they continued to beat on some models' out and we could not easily adapt," he recalled. "I have recovered one of typos, but it was not enough,beat us 10-7. "
Football-coach-to-be had with a major in English and philosophy, now a graduate of Nebraska. The real world is called. "I went to a Firestone recapping facility in Aberdeen, South Dakota to work," he said with a grin. "Then I became interested in law school."
McGinn enrolled in law school and clerked for Douglas County Nebraska Attorney Paul. When he graduated he was offered a position with the prosecutor's office and remained there for 11 years until hisAppeal from the District Court of Governor Charles Thone.
"I hope to do something good, protecting an effort, the company with my assessment," he said. "I like the variety of experiences." But there is a kind of experience that clearly disturbs him. It is, as a young man standing before him.
If it were up to him, he would prefer that young people in front of people like Devaney, Osborne and Solice than standing in front of him. "Children need care and attention andsometimes they are simply not getting, "he said." Sometimes they simply do not have the chance. "
McGinn, a retired judge is not at all Husker home games, but you can still see a little 'with some of his old friends. "Fred Duda and I went to the Notre Dame game and some of us meet every summer.
"Chances are, you probably know that they speak the chance to play football, Nebraska. Bernard McGinn made the most of his opportunities.
