Robert S. Devaney

(1915-1997) lived in Lincoln. College football coach, administrator, his teams at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln won two NCAA Division I national football championships. He also developed model athletic plant from 1967-1993. Consult Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Football (Greenwood Press, 1987) 135-136 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, September 3, 1989, pp. 8, 11 and Sunday World Herald, April 7, 1991, pp. F-1, F-2 and New York Times obituary, May 10, 1997, p. 20.

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