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The Northern Illinois Huskies completed the 11th of 15 spring football practices with a situational scrimmage that saw both the offense and defense excel at different times during the two-hour session at Huskie Stadium. Northern Illinois head coach Dave Doeren said he was pleased with where his team stood with one week of spring remaining....

A full day of festivities and activities for Huskie fans of all ages is on tap for Saturday, April 21. Northern Illinois will combine its traditional Spring Football Game and Huskie Athletic Support Fund Tailgate Showdown events with the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Chessick Practice Center, the annual NIU fraternity TUGS finals showdown, Huskie...

Seven home games, including non-conference tilts versus Iowa and Kansas and six Saturday contests, highlight the NIU football 2012 schedule released Thursday by NIU and the Mid-American Conference. Northern Illinois, the defending Mid-American Conference champions, will play seven home games – six at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb and one at Chicago’s Soldier Field – for the second...

Season tickets for the 2012 Northern Illinois football games at Huskie Stadium, including the full six-game package, the popular three-game Mini-Plan and the new Huskieland Plan, are now available for purchase through the NIU Athletics Ticket Office. Season ticket holders for 2012 and Huskie Athletic Support Fund members can also now order tickets to Soldier...

Northern Illinois will celebrate its 2011 Mid-American Conference Champions and begin looking toward the 2012 Huskie football season at the annual Huskie Athletic Support Fund kickoff at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15. The event, featuring NIU coaches and student-athletes, free food and drink and important information on 2012 football tickets, will be held in Victor...

Mike Dunbar, a 35-year college coaching veteran whose résumé includes extensive experience as a head coach and offensive coordinator at every level of football, has joined the Northern Illinois University football program as offensive coordinator, NIU head coach Dave Doeren announced Wednesday. “I am very excited to bring Mike Dunbar to Northern Illinois as our...

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...

P.J. Fleck, introduced Thursday as Northern Illinois’ new offensive coordinator, has resigned, NIU head coach Dave Doeren announced Friday. “P.J. called today and said he does not feel he’s ready to be an offensive coordinator,” Doeren said. “It’s unfortunate, but what’s best for our program is to move in a different direction and that’s what...

Mike Uremovich, a native of New Lenox, Ill. who spent the past seven years as head coach at the University of St. Francis in Joliet and previously worked as a graduate assistant at NIU for former head coach Joe Novak, has joined the NIU football staff as running backs coach and special teams coordinator. Uremovich...

Dave Doeren’s second signing day as Northern Illinois University head coach went a little smoother than the first. While the 2011 Signing Day got off to a slow start due to a blizzard that hit the region, closing schools and closing roads, by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Northern Illinois had received all the necessary paperwork...

Former NFL wide receiver Frisman Jackson, a Chicago native who started his collegiate football career at Northern Illinois, has joined NIU Head Coach Dave Doeren‘s staff as an assistant coach on the offensive side of the ball, Doeren announced Tuesday. Jackson, who caught 40 passes for 490 yards while playing wide receiver and on special...

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...