DeKALB | Football games and parties aren’t the only thing happening on Homecoming weekend.

In celebration of NIU’s 101st Homecoming, NIU athletics will induct two teams and four athletes into its Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 12.

The inductees are the 1950 and 1951 baseball teams, Rodney Davis, Jerry Ippoliti, Sue Kause and Mike Terna. The class is the 26th since the Athletics Hall of Fame was established in 1978.

The 1950 and 1951 teams won back-to-back Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles under the coaching of fellow hall-of-famer Ralph McKinzie.

The 1950 team went 16-8 overall and 6-2 in conference while placing six players on the All-IIAC team. The 1951 team went 11-6 overall and 7-3 in conference and placed five on the All-IIAC team.

Davis played basketball for NIU through 1984-88. While being named to the All-Decade Team in 1990, Davis ranks No. 3 in career assists and No. 8 in career steals.

Ippoliti served as NIU’s football coach from 1971-75 and as assistant and associate athletics director from 1979-87. Ippoliti also served as commissioner of the Mid-Continent Conference and later the MAC.

Kause played softball from 1985-88, playing on NIU’s World Series softball team. Kause ranks No. 3 in career home runs and No. 4 in career slugging percentage. Kause also holds the distinction of being NIU’s first three-time First-Team Academic All-America student-athlete.

Terna played football for the Huskies from 1977-1980, and was named MAC Defensive Player of the Year and Honorable Mention All-America his senior year.

Jud heads south

Former NIU men’s basketball head coach Rob Judson was named an assistant coach for Illinois State University’s men’s basketball team last week.

NIU athletics director Jim Phillips announced that Judson would not return to his position March 10, and replaced him with Ricardo Patton, formerly a head coach at Colorado.