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Matt Krempel
Northern Illinois University offensive lineman Matt Krempel, who finished his Huskie career in 2013 with a 3.43 grade point average, has earned membership in the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame’s Hampshire Honor Society for 2014, the organization announced today. Krempel is one of nine Mid-American Conference student-athletes named to the 2014 Hampshire...
Top: Dominique Ware and Rob Sterling. Bottom: Jacob Brinlee and Ricky Connors
Four players from Northern Illinois University’s 12-win, MAC West champion football team were named to the 2013 Academic All Mid-American Conference squad Friday with another four Huskies garnering honorable mention recognition. The team is selected annually by the league’s faculty athletics representatives. NIU senior safety Dominique Ware (Bolingbrook, Ill./Plainfield North HS), junior fullbacks Rob Sterling...
Matt Krempel
Northern Illinois offensive tackle Matt Krempel (Columbus, Ind./Columbus North HS) has been named one of 170 candidates for the 2013 National Football Foundation (NFF) National Scholar-Athlete Awards, presented by Fidelity Investments. With the nomination, Krempel is also a semifinalist for the 2013 William V. Campbell Trophy, endowed by HealthSouth, which recognizes one individual (from any...
Da’Ron Brown
As the Northern Illinois University football team begins spring practice today, there are great expectations for the 2013 season. With back-to-back Mid-American Conference championships, five straight bowl trips, including the school’s first BCS bowl bid, the bar has been set pretty high. “I’d rather have the expectations high because then you’re going to be going...
Coach Dave Doeren and the NIU Huskies (0-1) return to Huskie Stadium at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, to continue their non-conference schedule versus the Skyhawks of the University of Tennessee at Martin (1-0). Students are admitted free with their NIU OneCard. The first 3,000 fans at the game will receive a red “We Are...
Coach Dave Doeren
The Northern Illinois Huskies closed out 2012 preseason football practices Saturday with a “mock game” at Huskie Stadium that included pregame stretching, the team entrance, seeing every personnel group on offense, defense and special teams, halftime and even the singing of the post-game fight song. There was no hitting, no passes thrown and no real...
Nabal Jefferson
Mid-American Conference champion Northern Illinois placed five players on the league’s Academic All-MAC Football Team announced Friday, with four more Huskies receiving honorable mention status on the squad, which is selected by the MAC faculty athletic representatives. NIU starters Chandler Harnish (Bluffton, Ind./Norwell HS), Nabal Jefferson (Chicago, Ill./Marist HS), Ryan Neir (Roscoe, Ill./Hononegah HS), Keith...
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...