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Four quarters of football were not enough. One overtime period was not enough. The prize was too big: a Mid-American Conference championship. With the hard-fought score knotted at 37, the NIU Huskies and the Kent State Golden Flashes carried their perfect conference records into the second overtime – one more chance to claim victory. Huskie...
Da’Ron Brown celebration
The Northern Illinois University Huskies became the first Mid-American Conference team to defeat two Big Ten teams in one season and improved their record to 4-0 on the season with a dominating 55-24 win over Purdue Saturday at Ross-Ade Stadium. Quarterback Jordan Lynch started the game by completing 14 of his first 15 passes, including...
Tommylee Lewis
For a college football team about to play only its fourth game of the season, the NIU Huskies already have seen plenty. Victory in a Big Ten stadium. An early weekend off. A four-hour flight across the country followed by a long bus ride to a hotel and another time-consuming bus ride to not a...
The NIU Huskies and Northwestern Wildcats will meet on the football field Sept. 6, 2014, for the first time since 2005 when the teams play at Ryan Field, officials from both universities announced Tuesday. The contest between the state’s most successful Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs this century will be the eighth all-time between the...
Jordan Lynch
Two undefeated football teams will march into Huskie Stadium Saturday in dogged pursuit of continued perfection. Only one will emerge unscathed. For the NIU Huskies, who are among the last six Football Bowl Subdivision teams without a home game yet this season, two records are on the line. NIU has won 21 straight games in...
Tommylee Lewis
Spurred on by an aggressive defense that recorded a school-record 11 quarterback sacks, including seven in the second-half, Northern Illinois scored the final 10 points of the game Saturday to claim a hard-fought 45-35 victory over Idaho in the Kibbie Dome. After trailing 28-14 with 9:35 to play in the second quarter, Northern Illinois outscored...
Rod Carey
First, knock off a Big Ten opponent in their house. Check. Second, take a mandatory weekend off after only one game. Check. Third, travel nearly 1,800 miles to play at the university that your new president called “home” as recently as three months ago. Well, that final “check” is coming soon for the NIU Huskie...
Mathew Sims
Northern Illinois kicker Mathew Sims made a 36-yard field goal with four seconds on the clock Saturday to give the Huskies a 30-27 season-opening win over the Iowa Hawkeyes at Kinnick Stadium. The kick gave NIU its first win over the Hawkeyes in nine tries, and it came in comeback fashion as Northern Illinois trailed...
Eight times, NIU and Iowa have taken to the gridiron in battle. Eight times, the Hawkeyes have walked away victors – even if only by one point thanks to a lone touchdown scored with 2:15 to play last Sept. 1 at Soldier Field. Coach Rod Carey, quarterback Jordan Lynch and the rest of the Huskie...
NIU football coach Rod Carey
Northern Illinois Athletics and the Northern Illinois IMG Sports Network will debut the 2013 editions of a pair of radio shows featuring plenty of Huskie football talk next week as “Inside Huskie Football” and “NIU Weekly” will kick off the 2013 campaign. “Inside Huskie Football” returns for its fourth season on the flagship station of...
Tommylee Lewis
Exactly three weeks away from kickoff of Northern Illinois’ 2013 season opening game at Iowa, the Huskies held their first extended scrimmage of preseason practices Saturday night at Huskie Stadium. The 80-minute scrimmage closed out the second of two practices for NIU as the Huskies went through their first two-a-day of fall camp. Northern Illinois...
Rod Carey
Football was in the air once again on the campus of Northern Illinois University as the NIU football team turned in the first of 24 preseason practices at Huskie Stadium Monday afternoon. The two-time defending Mid-American Conference champions began their pursuit of a third title under partly cloudy skies, cool temperatures and passing showers, typical...
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