Tag: MAC West Champs
For those whose ears are still ringing with stadium-filling cheers of euphoria and Bill Baker’s breathless shouts of “Huskies win! Huskies win!” on the radio, Intercollegiate Athletics has some wonderful news. Season ticket sales for the 2012 football campaign begin next week! To celebrate, Athletics and University Relations are inviting all fans to pose for...
So it’s all come to this. A few short-but-busy months since Coach Dave Doeren and his Huskies visited Detroit before their 9-3 season began, they’re back to finish it in the biggest fashion possible at the 2011 Marathon MAC Championship. “We laughed about it in the postgame the other night – how long ago it...
Two University Honors students – Kaitlynn Carter (political science) and Gary Timmins (political science and psychology – served as NIU’s delegates to a prestigious undergraduate conference in early November. Carter and Timmins participated in the 63rd Student Conference on United States Affairs (SCUSA) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The purpose of the...
On a day when the normally potent Northern Illinois offense struggled to find its rhythm, the oft-maligned Huskie defense stepped up Friday morning to lead NIU to an 18-12 victory over Eastern Michigan at Huskie Stadium. With the victory, Northern Illinois (9-3, 7-1) earned its seventh-straight win and its second consecutive trip to the Marathon...
NIU football reigned supreme in the City of DeKalb at least for the day on January 24. Mayor Kris Povlsen at the start of Monday night’s DeKalb city council meeting read a proclamation acknowledging the Northern Illinois University football team on its success during the 2010 season. The Huskies capped off a record-setting football campaign...
Rarely has a team celebrated a Humanitarian Bowl victory as wholeheartedly and with as much joy as the Northern Illinois Huskies celebrated their 40-17 win over Fresno State Saturday in Boise, Idaho. In the final seconds of the win – NIU’s school-record 11th of the season – Gatorade baths were freely given, coaches’ names were...
Northern Illinois will close out a record-setting season with an appearance on the “blue turf” of Boise’s Bronco Stadium in the 2010 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl, Northern Illinois, bowl and Mid-American Conference officials announced Sunday. The Huskies (10-3, 8-0) will face Fresno State (8-4, 5-3) of the Western Athletic Conference in the 2010 uDrove Humanitarian Bowl...
Nine straight victories. A perfect record in the Mid-American Conference. The outright MAC West Division title. A Top 25 national ranking in two major college football polls. Ten consecutive weeks with MAC West Player of the Week honors. The NIU Huskies are barking loudly and proudly on their way to Detroit’s Ford Field for the 7 p.m....
Northern Illinois won its ninth-straight game and the outright Mid-American Conference West Division title with a dominating 71-3 victory over Eastern Michigan at Rynearson Stadium on Friday afternoon. “The big thing is I am proud the team – they have gone to Ball State and Eastern Michigan in some tough atmospheres and they just like playing...
