By Randy York, The N-Sider
One of Nebraska’s most unique walk-on football players ever has Stage 4 prostate cancer. Anthony “Slick Steels” walked on from a military base in Saragosa, Spain, and went on to earn the prestigious Guy Chamberlin Trophy in 1981.
Steels, however, is remembered more for being the only football player in Husker history to sing the National Anthem (pictured above) on the same day he was playing. “Anthony was a good singer and a very fine player – a good blocker, receiver and ball carrier,” Hall-of-Fame coach Tom Osborne once told me.