The Huskies are going prime time. Get your VCR's ready to tape. The popular television show "Coach" will be using actual game footage from an NIU football game played in 1988 against Minnesota State. The plot line of the show will have coach Hayden Fox...

In what could be the biggest win in NIU football since the 1983 California Bowl, the Huskies defeated the Wolf Pack of Nevada 46-42. This moved NIU another giant step closer to an automatic bid to the Las Vegas Bowl in December. "I know we're 2-0, and...

The NIU football team's inaugural season in the Big West has brought more to the team than just the opportunity to win a bowl bid. Along with the conference affiliation and the opportunity to play with the pigskin in late December, has come a dramatic...

There's the Big Eight and the Big Ten, but what is the Big West? Even more mind boggling is how did NIU manage to become affiliated with that conference? Perhaps a little background would be appropriate. The conference was originally founded in 1969 making...

Yes, football fans, the Huskies are coming off a huge defeat by a Big-Eight team and now have to face Big-Ten Indiana. But don't expect the Huskies to roll over and play dead. What should be expected is more aggressiveness with less penalties and better...

In the first week of the college football season, the Huskies found out (the hard way) that you can't get anywhere if you shoot yourself in the foot. In the Huskies 54-10 loss to Iowa State on Thursday night, they managed to rack up 14 penalties, which...

A former New York Giant was back in his home town Saturday to promote his book Life on the Line and sign autographs at the Junction Bookstore. Karl Nelson grew up in DeKalb and spent six years as an offensive lineman for the Giants. More importantly,...

AMES, Iowa—The Huskies should be glad you can't judge a book by its cover, because if you could, this football team is in for a long season. The Huskies opened their season in Ames, Iowa where judging by the score, they were thrown into a whirlwind...

Today is the day we've all been waiting for. The NIU football squad will finally begin its 1993 campaign, and does not plan to get caught in a whirlwind. Charlie Sadler will lead the Huskies into the unfriendly confines of Cyclone-Trice field to take...

Injuries are a part of life for every football team and NIU is hopeful that this unfortunate problem doesn't determine the outcome Thursday night. Offensively for the Huskies, they will be missing three offensive lineman who were in the two-deep. This...

CYCLONES WIN! CYCLONES WIN! I can't believe it! CYCLONES WIN! This is what was heard over the air waves in Ames, Iowa last year in November when the Cyclones of Iowa State beat Big-Eight powerhouse Nebraska 19-10 in a game that most Cyclone fans won't...

Guys, do you have lots of school spirit with no place to show it? Are you a good athlete that likes to travel and see the country? Have you figured out what this article is about yet? Yes, the Huskies want you! Our nationally ranked cheerleading squad...