NIU Today

Northern Illinois head coach Rod Carey welcomed 105 Huskies, including 28 newcomers, to the start of 2013 preseason football camp Sunday at the Jeffrey and Kimberly Yordon Center. Northern Illinois will hold the first of its 24 preseason practices at 3:35 p.m. today at Huskie Stadium in helmets and shorts. The Huskies’ preseason camp will...

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...

With only eight seconds left on the clock at Huskie Stadium and the score tied at 38 last November, sophomore kicker Mathew Sims booted a 34-yard field goal lift Northern Illinois to victory over Ball State. NIU had rallied from a 17-point deficit in the third quarter to earn its sixth consecutive win and claim...

Coach Dave Doeren and the NIU Huskies football team play their first road game of 2012 Saturday when they travel to West Point, N.Y., to face the U.S. Army Black Knights. NIU owns a 1-1 record after earning their first win of the season last weekend with a 35-7 victory over UT Martin at Huskie...

The sound of shoulder pads popping filled Huskie Stadium Wednesday as the Northern Illinois football team practiced in shells for the first time in the preseason. Despite overcast skies with intermittent showers, the Huskies’ energy on the field could not be dampened by the weather. In the end, though, the defense owned the day with...

The NIU Huskies won in convincing fashion at midnight Monday at the GoDaddy.com Bowl, beating the Red Wolves of Arkansas State University 38-20. For first-year head coach Dave Doeren, quarterback Chandler Harnish and Co., the win in Mobile, Ala., secured the third jewel in this season’s triple crown: MAC West bragging rights, the first Mid-American...

The 2011 Northern Illinois Huskies were determined to rewrite the script. In its two previous MAC Championship games at Ford Field in Detroit, in 2005 and 2010, NIU had lost in heart-breaking, last-minute fashion, to Akron and Miami (Ohio), respectively. So it was only fitting that the 2011 team not only rewrote the script, they...

Two of the nation’s best college quarterbacks will take the Huskie Stadium field Saturday as NIU’s Chandler Harnish and Western Michigan’s Alex Carder lead their teams into battle. So says Coach Dave Doeren, whose 3-3 Huskies bring a 40-10 toppling of Kent State into the annual Homecoming game. Kick-off is set for 2:30 p.m. Students...

As the Northern Illinois football team enters its second week of fall camp, one position where first year head coach Dave Doeren is looking for new starters is in the secondary. With starting corners Patrick George and Chris Smith departed, there is playing time available for those who make an impression in camp. One player...