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Chicago native Da’Ron Brown (Morgan Park HS), who finished his Northern Illinois University football career in 2014 as one of the Huskies’ all-time best wide receivers, has accepted an invitation to play in the 90th East-West Shrine Game. The game kicks off at 3 p.m. (CT) Saturday, Jan. 17, from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg,...
Cameron Stingily
The NIU football team found the red zone plenty of times in tallying more than 400 yards of offense Tuesday night at the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl but failed to capitalize on most of those trips, falling 52-23 to a Marshall team that did capitalize on opportunity. Marshall was 6-for-6 in the red zone, and the...
Drew Hare and Juwan Brescacin
Thanks to the generosity of Intercollegiate Athletics, NIU will offer discounted student game tickets for the Tuesday, Dec. 23, Boca Raton Bowl in Boca Raton, Fla. A limited number of discounted student game tickets are available for purchase at niutickets.com. Student game ticket sales close at 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, unless they sell out...
Boca Raton Bowl logo
The Northern Illinois University Huskies, champions of the Mid-American Conference for the third time in the last four years, will meet Conference USA champion Marshall Thundering Herd in the inaugural Boca Raton Bowl in Boca Raton, Fla. Sean T. Frazier, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics, and the league made the announcement Sunday. The...
Drew Hare
DETROIT — The Northern Illinois University Huskies used big plays on defense and a balanced offensive attack, amassing 552 yards of total offense while holding the Bowling Green State University Falcons to just 17 points in a 51-17 MAC championship win. Drew Hare earned most valuable player honors with 12 carries for 60 yards and...
Joel Bouganon
Talk about déjà vu. One year has passed since NIU and Bowling Green faced off at Detroit’s Ford Field for Mid-American Conference bragging rights. Jordan Lynch’s undefeated and nationally ranked Huskies, who were looking for a third straight MAC crown during their fourth consecutive appearance in the Motor City, somehow went home on the wrong...
Ten Northern Illinois University football players were honored Wednesday by the Mid-American Conference as the league announced the 2014 All-MAC football teams as selected by the league coaches. Huskie offensive linemen Tyler Loos (Sterling, Ill./Sterling HS) and Andrew Ness (O’Fallon, Mo./Christian Brothers College), defensive end Jason Meehan (St. Louis, Mo./Webster Groves HS) and cornerback Paris...
Akeem Daniels
NIU faculty and staff are eligible for one free ticket each to the 2014 MAC Championship Game, which takes place Friday, Dec. 5, in Detroit. The Huskies will face the Bowling Green Falcons at 6 p.m. (CST) in a game that will be nationally broadcast on ESPN2. Beginning at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 1, employees...
See you in Detroit!
Thanks to the generosity of the Student Association (SA), the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management and Intercollegiate Athletics, Northern Illinois University will host a student fan bus package for the MAC Championship football game. Cheer on the NIU Huskies football team Friday, Dec. 5, at Ford Field in Detroit. A limited number of...
So it all comes down to this. Rod Carey and the NIU Huskie football team will work off their turkey dinners Friday morning in Kalamazoo, where the final game of the regular season means everything. Carey and Co. must beat NIU alum P.J. Fleck’s Western Michigan Broncos to win the Mid-American Conference West Division and...
Tyler Wedel
Northern Illinois University punter and Ray Guy Award semifinalist Tyler Wedel earned Mid-American Conference West Division Special Teams Player of the Week accolades following his performance in the Huskies’ 21-14 win at Ohio, the league announced Monday. On a cold and windy night in Athens, Wedel punted six times for a 42.8-yard average and forced...
Chad Beebe
The Northern Illinois University football team (9-2, 6-1) scored a touchdown with six minutes remaining, and the Huskies forced a turnover with less than two minutes left in the game to defeat the Ohio University Bobcats, 21-14, at Peden Stadium. The win keeps NIU in the driver’s seat in pursuit of its fifth straight MAC...
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