Article: NU, K-State rally to prepare fans for bistate clash next weekend

"When you've got that kind of emotion on both sides of the state line, why not take advantage of that?"

--- JOHN BANISTER, organizer

for the KSU-NU Showdown Festival

By MATT MOLINE

Special to The Capital-Journal

MARYSVILLE --- In the 1980s, University of Nebraska student John Banister showed his school spirit as trombone player in the Big Red marching band.

Fifteen years later, Banister is still a horn-tooter --- as the organizer of Friday's downtown Marysville football pep rally aimed at fans of both NU and Kansas State University.

Billed as the KSU-NU Showdown Festival, the event, which he said he hopes to conduct yearly, will take place on the eve of the annual gridiron battle of the two ...

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