Al Capone Once Got A Motorcade Escort Into The Northwestern-Nebraska Game

Today Nebraska and Northwestern play their sixth game in a rivalry that began in 1902. As the Huskers are a recent refugee to the Big Ten, this will be the first trip for Nebraska to Evanston since October 1931. Among the spectators in that game, according to this delightful clipping the Northwestern University Archives dug up this week, was a certain Chicago celebrity whose presence riled the scribes at the Daily Northwestern. Carrying the label "Get This, Capone!", the student paper gave ol' S...