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Juwan Brescacin
Northern Illinois University Head Football Coach Rod Carey has modified the format for the 2014 Huskie Bowl, which will be played at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 19, in Huskie Stadium. Admission to the contest, as well as to the pregame activities in “The Yard,” the new official tailgate home of NIU Athletics, is free. The...
Juwan Brescacin
The Northern Illinois University Huskies offense could not get untracked against Utah State in the 2013 San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl game and, despite a valiant effort by the NIU defense, the Huskies fell to the Aggies 21-14 Thursday night at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. With its second straight loss, NIU ended...
Tyler Wedel
Northern Illinois University punter Tyler Wedel became the fifth Huskie named to a watch list when the junior was named a nominee for the 2013 Ray Guy Award, the Augusta Sports Council announced Friday. The Ray Guy Award is awarded to the nation’s top punter each season and determined by a national selection committee made...
Northern Illinois University quarterback Jordan Lynch set the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision record for rushing yards by a quarterback with 316 yards on 32 carries leading the No. 23 Huskies (7-0, 3-0 MAC) to a 38-17 Mid-American Conference win over Central Michigan at Kelly/Shorts Stadium Saturday. Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel HS) broke the record held...
Desroy Maxwell
The 23rd ranked NIU Huskies earned their 23rd consecutive Huskie Stadium victory on Saturday, defeating Akron 27-20 before a Homecoming, sellout crowd of 23,595. The win set a new Mid-American Conference record for consecutive home victories, breaking a tie with Marshall (1997-2000). NIU improved to 6-0 with the victory and the Huskies are 2-0 in...
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...
Coach Rod Carey talks to the troops.
The Northern Illinois football team scrimmaged for nearly 90 minutes in full pads Saturday at Huskie Stadium in the most intense day of full contact work so far this spring. The Huskie offense, especially the first team unit working behind quarterback Jordan Lynch (Chicago, Ill./Mt. Carmel HS), appeared to be in mid-season form early in...
Coach Rod Carey allowed his mind to wander as he flew Wednesday with the NIU Huskies football team to Miami. “I started flipping through on my phone all the old Orange Bowl scores. I found that Notre Dame-Colorado one from way back, when I was a kid all those years ago. I thought to myself,...
Martel Moore
The Northern Illinois Huskies completed the 11th of 15 spring football practices with a situational scrimmage that saw both the offense and defense excel at different times during the two-hour session at Huskie Stadium. Northern Illinois head coach Dave Doeren said he was pleased with where his team stood with one week of spring remaining....
MT. PLEASANT, Mich. — Central Michigan took a 17-0 lead early, expanded it to 21 points at 45-24 early in the fourth period and then held on to claim a 48-41 victory over Northern Illinois in an offensive shootout at Kelly/Shorts Stadium Saturday. The Huskies’ loss in their Mid-American Conference opener dropped NIU’s record to...
Ten days before Northern Illinois opens the 2011 football season at Huskie Stadium versus Army, Northern Illinois Head Coach Dave Doeren released Tuesday the first depth chart of the season for the Huskies. Every player listed on the starting units on offense and defense lettered for the Huskies a year ago with the exception of...
NIU Huskies football players
For the first time since preseason camp started at Northern Illinois last Thursday, the Huskie football team did not practice Tuesday. That does not mean, however, that Dave Doeren’s football team had the day off as NIU players and coaches took part in the team’s annual Media and Photo Day at Huskie Stadium. Media day...
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