LINCOLN, Neb. — Every recruit who visits the women’s bowling offices at the University of Nebraska is shown a two-page spread from the July 2000 edition of Golf Digest. It depicts 50 golfers, from Bobby Jones to Babe Didrikson Zaharias to Tiger Woods, each at a different stage in their swing. The sequence was hardly intended as an instructional tool for bowling, but Bill Straub tends to divine inspiration from unusual sources.
Here in the cornfields of eastern Nebraska, where on football game days Cornhusker devotees turn Memorial Stadium into the state’s third-most populous city, Straub has assembled a bowling dynasty.