Charles Sumner "Cy" Sherman (March 10, 1871 – May 22, 1951) was an American journalist and is known as the "father of the Cornhuskers" after giving the University of Nebraska football team the name "Cornhuskers" in 1899. At his suggestion in 1936, Associated Press (AP) sports editor Alan J. Gould created the first AP Poll for ranking college football teams. Sherman began his career writing at the Nebraska State Journal in Lincoln, spent a short time at the Red Lodge, Montana Pickett before returning to Lincoln and the Lincoln Star where he spent most of his career. At his death he was called by the Star the "Dean of American Sportswriters".[1][2]
- ^ Cy Sherman Dies; Dean of American Sports Writers, The Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) May 23, 1951, page 1 and 2, accessed October 17, 2016, at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7061146// and https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7061235//, obituary was widely republished, for instance, see Cy Sherman, Noted Nebraska Sports Editor, Dies, Northwest Arkansas Times (Fayetteville, Arkansas) May 23, 1951, page 8, accessed October 22, 2016, at https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7126792//
- ^ "Deep Red: The story behind the name 'Cornhuskers'". JournalStar.com. 2009-06-20. Retrieved 2024-10-08.