Tag: Larry English
Following the completion of the National Football League draft this past weekend, four members of the winningest senior class in Northern Illinois football history signed free agent contracts with National Football League teams. Wide receivers Martel Moore (San Antonio, Texas/Earl Warren HS) and Perez Ashford (Shaker Heights, Ohio/Shaker Heights HS), defensive end Alan Baxter (Buffalo...
The Alumni Association of Northern Illinois University recognizes the achievements of exemplary alumni by awarding the following each year: the Distinguished Alumni Award, the F. R. Geigle Service Award, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award, and Outstanding Alumni Awards for each of NIU’s academic colleges. Recipients are selected based on professional and personal achievements as well...
Chandler Harnish waited longer than anyone to hear his name called at the 2012 National Football League Draft. For the quarterback from Northern Illinois, who in 2011 became the fourth player ever in the Football Bowl Subdivision to pass for more than 3,000 and rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season, led NIU...
Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish has been named the winner of the Mid-American Conference’s Vern Smith Leadership Award, which is presented annually to the MAC’s top football player, the league office announced Wednesday. Mid-American Conference head coaches voted on the award and on the league’s all-conference team, which features nine Huskies in all, four on...
