Toby Wright was coming back to his college town, with his son for the first time. So he had to call Coach. "Because that's my Abraham Lincoln, without a doubt." Tom Osborne did not answer on the ...

Jack Osborne, a Hastings native, was 2½ years younger than his big brother, Tom. The pair played football together growing up, but Jack’s specialty was track and field, particularly the jumping ...

“Coach Osborne and his wife, Nancy, took the time to come up to our hospital room and welcome our new son into the world, and I thought, that’s a special man,” said Steve Glenn, a ’74-78 ...

Osborne gets a job with the new beloved coach and works himself up through the ranks. NFL Tom, as I'm sure they called him at this point, now gets to meet all those players he looked up to as a child.