Strong family ties to Nebraska football certainly helped persuade Daniel Pearson to become a Husker himself.
Pearson, a junior on the Nebraska men's golf team, is the great-grandson of Bill Jennings, head coach of the Nebraska football team from 1957-61. Pearson is also the grandson of Noel Martin, a fullback and linebacker whose senior season in 1962 coincided with the first season of coach Bob Devaney.
(In fact, Martin scored Nebraska's first points in the first game of Memorial Stadium's continuing NCAA record sellout streak, when he returned an interception 88 yards for a touchdown in a 16-7 loss to Missouri.