Football lifer Orson Christensen (left) draws up a play. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Nebraska finally caught up to Cow Town.
Legendary gridiron guru Orson Christensen, who was already inducted into the Coupeville Sports Hall o’ Fame back in 2017, picked up another honor this past weekend.
This time he joined the Athletic Hall of Fame at Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he was head football coach and Athletic Director in the 1980’s.
Joined by former Prairie Wolves player Grant Varveris, Christensen was honored during Wesleyan Weekend.
During his time at the university, which stretched from 1982-1986, Christensen led the football program to a 30-20 record, winning two conference championships.
A 1957 graduate of Oak Harbor High School, where he was a four-sport athlete, he went on to be a four-year letter-winner while playing both ways on the line at Pacific Lutheran University.
Over the 50+ years he coached football, Christensen worked in both the college and high school ranks.
That included a two-year stint in 2013-2014 where he joined Tony Maggio’s staff at Coupeville High School, inspiring a generation of Wolf players (and a blogger or two).
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