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NIU Huskies celebrate MAC championship
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...
Victorious NIU Huskies hoist the 2011 Marathon MAC Championship trophy
NIU’s Mid-American Conference gridiron champions will board an airplane Wednesday morning for Mobile, Ala., where they will compete Sunday, Jan. 8, in the nationally televised GoDaddy.com Bowl. Coach Dave Doeren and the Huskies will fly from Rockford to Mobile, where they’re scheduled to practice Wednesday afternoon. A dinner to welcome the Huskies (10-3, 7-1) and...
Photo of Christmas presents
Looking for something for that person that has everything? Need a last minute gift for a die-hard Huskie fan? Well, the Northern Illinois University Bookstore can help. The bookstore, located on the first floor of the Holmes Student Center, has the latest in NIU logo apparel and gifts featuring the new university logo marks. “The...
MAC champions!
NIU’s MAC champion Huskie football team continues to win – only now it’s off the field. The Huskies are winning kudos from Capitol Hill. Northern Illinois now will close out its record-setting 2011 season Sunday, Jan. 8, versus Arkansas State, champions of the Sun Belt Conference, at the GoDaddy.com Bowl in Mobile, Ala. For more...
Coach Dave Doeren gets the Gatorade bath!
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...
The Huskies end practice Thursday at Ford Field.
So it’s all come to this. A few short-but-busy months since Coach Dave Doeren and his Huskies visited Detroit before their 9-3 season began, they’re back to finish it in the biggest fashion possible at the 2011 Marathon MAC Championship. “We laughed about it in the postgame the other night – how long ago it...
Chandler Harnish
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...
NIU Huskie football fans rock the stands!
NIU students (and NIU students only) now can purchase a ticket package for the MAC Championship game at Student Involvement & Leadership Development on the first floor of the Campus Life Building outside of Room 150. While supplies last, tickets are available for purchase until 4:30 p.m. today, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday,...
NIU Huskies and President Peters celebrate a MAC West Championship! Detroit, here we come!
On a day when the normally potent Northern Illinois offense struggled to find its rhythm, the oft-maligned Huskie defense stepped up Friday morning to lead NIU to an 18-12 victory over Eastern Michigan at Huskie Stadium. With the victory, Northern Illinois (9-3, 7-1) earned its seventh-straight win and its second consecutive trip to the Marathon...
Logo of the 2011 Marathon MAC Championship
The NIU Huskies have wrapped up the Mid-American Conference West and are headed to the 2011 Marathon MAC Championship Game! On Friday, Dec. 2, at Ford Field in Detroit, our Huskies will take on Ohio University to prove who’s the best in the MAC. Join your fellow Huskie fans in the Motor City for this...
The NIU Huskies celebrate with the Bronze Stalk after the Nov. 15 victory.
NIU football coach Dave Doeren has a plea for all Huskie football fans, especially those who are considering the Black Friday shopping madness. Skip the malls. Come to the game. “We have 19 seniors that are going to be … currently the fifth-winningest class in NIU football history. If we would find a way to...
UPDATE! The NIU men’s soccer team will host WIU at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, for first round action. — With 6:40 left in regulation time of the Mid-American Conference Championship match, sophomore Sean Totsch (Oswego, Ill./Oswego) became the hero for the Northern Illinois men’s soccer team, flicking a header into the back of the...
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