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Akeem Daniels
Finally! After more than a month’s worth of road games and a bye week, the NIU football team returns Saturday afternoon to Huskie Stadium. During those 36 days away from Brigham Field, the team beat the Big Ten in Evanston, dispatched the desert heat and its gridiron opponent in Las Vegas and, unfortunately, lost to...
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Hey, sophomores: It’s your turn! Throughout this football season, NIU is launching a new initiative in the hopes of creating a tradition at Huskie Stadium. At each home game, a class of students will walk across the turf to the roar of the crowd as they welcome members of the NIU football team on to the...
Aregeros Turner
Northern Illinois University Athletics concluded “SchedulePalooza Encore” today when Sean T. Frazier, associate vice president and director of Athletics, announced that NIU will face the University of South Florida in a home-and-home football series in 2016 and 2017. NIU will travel to Tampa for the first game of the series on Sept. 10, 2016, with...
Rob Sterling
Northern Illinois University fullback Rob Sterling (Lansing, Ill./T.F. South) has been named one of 167 semifinalists for the 2014 National Football Foundation (NFF) Scholar-Athlete Awards, presented by Fidelity Investments. With the nomination, Sterling is also a semifinalist for the 2014 William V. Campbell Trophy, which recognizes one individual (from any level of college football) as...
Da’Ron Brown
Vanderbilt, the only Southeastern Conference football team ever to play in Huskie Stadium, will return Sept. 17, 2022, to DeKalb in the second half of a home-and-home series with the Northern Illinois University Huskies. Sean T. Frazier, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics, made the announcement Thursday. The series with Vanderbilt will begin...
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Three Northern Illinois University alumni plan to bring The DogHouse to campus to provide convenient meals while giving students an opportunity to work and learn on the job. Co-founders Jordan Delegal, Keith Otis and Elliot Echols of Hungry Huskies Inc. are working with the university to roll out the first food truck business on campus....
Joel Bouagnon
Northern Illinois University will play American Athletic Conference opponent Tulsa in football in 2022 and 2023. Sean T. Frazier, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics, made the announcement Tuesday as NIU kicked off its “SchedulePalooza Encore” featuring a series of football scheduling announcements this week. The series will begin Sept. 10, 2022 in...
Sean Frazier
Because every great act deserves an encore, the Northern Illinois University Huskies and Sean T. Frazier are bringing back #SchedulePalooza for a return engagement this week on NIU Athletics’ three primary social media platforms. Beginning Tuesday, NIU will announce several more additions to Huskie Football’s future schedule line-up as part of #SchedulePaloozaEncore. In keeping with...
Joel Bouagnon
The Arkansas Razorbacks were too much for the Northern Illinois University Huskies to handle Saturday night in Fayetteville, Ark. as NIU fell to 3-1 on the season after dropping a 52-14 decision at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. Arkansas’ special teams and defense accounted for its first two touchdowns, and while the Huskie defense played...
Twenty years after their first and only meeting – a game played before many NIU students were alive – the NIU Huskies and the Arkansas Razorbacks will battle again in Fayetteville. Arkansas prevailed in the Nov. 12, 1994, contest, but not by much. The final score was 30-27. Coach Rod Carey’s Huskies, who are 3-0...
Tyler Wedel
Northern Illinois University quarterback Drew Hare (O’Fallon, Mo./Fort Zumwalt West HS) and kicker Tyler Wedel (McFarland, Wis./McFarland HS) are the latest Huskies to earn Mid-American Conference Player of the Week honors as the league announced its Week 3 award winners Monday. Hare was named the Co-MAC West Offensive Player of the Week while Wedel was...
Aregeros Turner
Northern Illinois University jumped out to a 21-5 halftime lead and survived a furious comeback to pull out a 48-34 win Saturday over the Rebels at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. Da’Ron Brown hauled in a 54-yard pass from Drew Hare with 8:55 left in the game to put the Huskies back in control after...
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