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Quarterback Jordan Lynch scored three rushing touchdowns in the first quarter and the No. 17 (BCS) Northern Illinois University Huskies scored touchdown on its first five possessions en route to a 63-19 victory Saturday over the University of Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. NIU kept its perfect (9-0) record intact and improved to...

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...

Northern Illinois great Michael Turner, a two-time Pro Bowl selection for the Atlanta Falcons who has rushed for more than 7,300 yards during a nine-year NFL career, has been added to the line-up for Friday’s “Xs and Os with the Pros” event. Turner will join former Huskie NFL veterans Ryan Diem (Indianapolis Colts, 2001-11) and...

Sorry, ladies, this one’s for the guys. In four years, Northern Illinois Athletics’ annual Football 101 Ladies Clinic has become a huge hit with the Huskie fan base. In fact, the “exclusive” nature of the ladies clinic inspired a bit of jealousy from their husbands, sons and men throughout the community who asked: Where was...

Northern Illinois offensive tackle Trevor Olson and fullback Cameron Bell have signed free agent contracts with Tampa Bay and San Francisco, respectively, to bring the number of Huskie football players to sign NFL free agent contracts this year to five. Olson (Richfield, Minn./Richfield) and Bell (Round Rock, Texas/Stony Point) join wide receiver Nathan Palmer (Elkhart,...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Sophomore kicker Mathew Sims made a 34-yard field goal with eight seconds remaining to lift Northern Illinois to a 41-38 victory over Ball State Tuesday night at Huskie Stadium. The Huskies rallied from a 17-point third quarter deficit to earn their sixth consecutive win and their 14th-straight Huskie Stadium victory. Senior quarterback Chandler Harnish set...

Chandler Harnish threw his sixth touchdown pass of the game, a four-yard completion to Perez Ashford with 19 seconds left, and the Huskie defense stopped Toledo in the final seconds, giving Northern Illinois a 63-60 win over Toledo at the Glass Bowl Tuesday night before a national television audience on ESPN2. The win, which featured...