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Senior quarterback Jordan Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel) had four touchdown passes, one touchdown run and one touchdown reception as 18th-ranked Northern Illinois University defeated Eastern Michigan, 59-20, on Saturday afternoon at Huskie Stadium. With the victory, NIU improves to 8-0, 4-0 in Mid-American Conference play, and won its 24th consecutive game at Huskie Stadium. The...
Mathew Sims
Northern Illinois kicker Mathew Sims made a 36-yard field goal with four seconds on the clock Saturday to give the Huskies a 30-27 season-opening win over the Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium. The kick gave NIU its first win over the Hawkeyes in nine tries, and it came in comeback fashion as Northern Illinois trailed...
Juwan Brescacin
The biggest lesson learned from Saturday’s inaugural Huskie Bowl, the intrasquad scrimmage that closed out Northern Illinois’ 2013 spring practices, is that the Huskies are immeasurably better as one cohesive unit working together than they are split in half. In a one-hour, 45-minute scrimmage largely dominated by the defenses, the NIU Black team coached by...
Drew Hare
Admittedly, calling Saturday’s Northern Illinois football practice a “Spring Game” was a little bit of a misnomer in terms of both the “spring” and the “game”. With temperatures in the low 40s and winds measured near 20 miles per hour at times, spring has not quite arrived in Northern Illinois. And when NIU’s spring football...
Coach Rod Carey talks to the troops.
The Northern Illinois football team scrimmaged for nearly 90 minutes in full pads Saturday at Huskie Stadium in the most intense day of full contact work so far this spring. The Huskie offense, especially the first team unit working behind quarterback Jordan Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel HS), appeared to be in mid-season form early in...
Jordan Lynch
For the second straight year, Northern Illinois won the Mid-American Conference Championship “The Hard Way,” as the Huskies won a battle of ranked teams with a 44-37 double overtime win over Kent State at Ford Field in Detroit. NIU quarterback Jordan Lynch capped a Heisman-worthy performance with his third touchdown run of the game in...
Jordan Lynch
When the NIU football team last battled Toledo, the two teams combined for 123 points. Sixty-three of those belonged to the victor Huskies. A year later, with MAC Championship rights again on the line, the Rockets are coming Wednesday night to DeKalb on the heels of a stinging 34-27 conference loss to Ball State. They’re...
Jordan Lynch
Northern Illinois put together a workmanlike performance on offense, defense and special teams to earn its ninth straight victory, 63-0, over Mid-American Conference newcomer Massachusetts Saturday at Huskie Stadium. NIU improved to 9-1, 5-0 in the MAC, while UMass fell to 0-9, 0-5. The Huskies extended their school-record home winning streak to 20 games, and...
The Northern Illinois football team flashed plenty of big play ability Wednesday at Huskie Stadium, as the offense and defense both had their fair share of highlights. By the end of practice, head coach Dave Doeren had plenty of praise for both sides of the ball. “The team had good spirit, it was physical and...