| GREAT PLAY FROM A GREAT NAME | | | | top-notch, be accountable for what you do, and be |
| You can be sure plenty of folks will remember "the | | | | patient. That's just the way it is." Frosty got knocked |
| play." It came in the second quarter of the 1973 | | | | around on the scout team and was "Blackshirt bait" |
| Orange Bowl game against Notre Dame when Johnny | | | | before he earned his day in the Memorial Stadium sun. |
| Rodgers threw a touchdown pass to Frosty | | | | His first varsity touchdown came on a Van Brownson |
| Anderson. | | | | pass during a Utah State game. "It was off of a hook |
| "I wasn't supposed to be in for that play," Frosty | | | | pattern out and up," Frosty remembered as a smile |
| Anderson said. "We knew the play would be there | | | | came across his face. "He almost overthrew me and I |
| and it would be an easy six." It was and the rest of the | | | | had to lay out for it but I got it." |
| night was a disaster for the Fighting Irish. But, that's not | | | | Patience and practice paid off as the talented split end |
| the game that Frosty thinks of as his best game. | | | | inched up the depth chart. He made the ABC Sports |
| "The Wisconsin game was my best game," he said. | | | | highlight films with a clutch 3rd. down and 15 yard catch |
| "We kept getting behind and then I finally scored and | | | | against Colorado. "It was a precise seventeen yard |
| put Nebraska ahead. I thought that would do it but | | | | down and out pattern and I caught it." |
| Wisconsin came back and scored. That's when Tony | | | | Not everything went the Husker's way during Frosty's |
| Davis went to work with one of his three rushes for | | | | senior year. "We went to California to play UCLA and |
| about 30 yards each." Nebraska won. | | | | Mark Harmon and they beat us. I lost my starting job |
| "Someone came up and made a comment that I had | | | | at that game," Frosty said. Oklahoma also throttled |
| something like nine catches and 160 yards," Frosty said. | | | | Nebraska, 27-0. "It took almost seven years before I |
| "I didn't think much about it even though it turned out to | | | | stopped taking that Oklahoma defeat personally." |
| be an I-back type of performance." | | | | In spite of the losses, Frosty earned All-Conference |
| It's not surprising Frosty might turn in a memorable | | | | honors at his split end position and also academic |
| performance against a Big 10 team. He comes from | | | | honors. "I met Mark Harmon at the academic event |
| Big 10 roots. His father, Forrest, Sr. who was better | | | | and he told me they were really afraid of Nebraska. I |
| know as "Forddy" coached basketball at Michigan | | | | was surprised by that." |
| State. The family moved to Scottsbluff where his dad | | | | The pro scouts noticed Frosty, too. The New Orleans |
| accepted a basketball coaching position. Frosty | | | | Saints drafted him in the eighth round as a wide |
| became a standout for Scottsbluff and caught the | | | | receiver. His pro career lasted two years. During his |
| eye of Nebraska coach Jim Ross during a | | | | first season, he went in late in the first half against the |
| Scottsbluff-Fremont game. | | | | New York Jets, with Joe Namath at the helm, and |
| Coach Devaney knew Frosty's dad from his days as | | | | separated his shoulder. "They had to keep me |
| an assistant football coach at Michigan State. | | | | because of my contract, but I got cut the next year." |
| "I always assumed I would be headed for Michigan | | | | That ended football for Frosty Anderson. Frosty is still |
| State but when the Nebraska offer came, I thought | | | | in great shape and is an avid runner. "Not the marathon |
| what the heck and signed," he said. Not bad decision | | | | stuff," he quickly pointed out. "I don't have time for that." |
| when you consider that only two years later, the | | | | If he turns around in his office chair just a little, he can |
| young Scottsbluff star would be wearing a National | | | | look out his 11th floor office window and see Memorial |
| Championship ring. | | | | Stadium but the football memories don't consume him. |
| Like all freshmen players in those days, Frosty started | | | | "When you have kids, you soon find out that they |
| in the Nebraska freshman football program. That team | | | | aren't impressed that you played for the Huskers. |
| only had one loss. "We lost to the Kearney State first | | | | They just want their diapers changed. It didn't take long |
| team," Frosty said. | | | | for me to move on." |
| "Jim Walden was our freshman football coach," Frosty | | | | He has become a unique fan, too. "People need to |
| said. "He was my first experience with a 'south-mouth' | | | | remember that they are just kids. Kids don't hear you. |
| and he preached three things: be ag-ile, be mob-ile and | | | | Nobody had to tell me we played a bad game or we |
| be hos-tile. Frosty red-shirted his sophomore year. | | | | lost a game. We knew it. It's just a game." |
| "I'm what was known as hope of the second team," | | | | Not in Nebraska, Frosty, especially with a great name |
| he said. "To play at Nebraska, you have to be | | | | like yours. |