This past Monday evening, the Huskie football team was finally introduced to its new head coach Charlie Sadler in an informal players-staff meeting. After the meeting, players said their coach had one prevalent message: Off-the-field high jinks will not...

Once you've accomplished everything imaginable, what else can you possibly do? Faced with this dilemma, Charlie Sadler moved to DeKalb. Not to corn-gaze: rather, to become the head coach of the NIU football team. Sadler, an assistant coach of 13 years,...

In 1967 a freshman football player from a small town in Texas played for a young coach at Oklahoma who was then in his second season of collegiate coaching. That coach, Jerry Pettibone, went on to become the head man at NIU for five seasons before leaving...

A landslide of changes are expected in the near future for the athletic departments of many Division I Schools, including NIU. The annual NCAA convention held last week approved numerous Division I rule changes supported by the NCAA Presidents Commission....

It may seem a little early, but the NIU Silverette dance squad has already made a New Year's resolution. In fact, the entire squad is in on this one. The Silverettes hope to "knock ‘em dead" in their first-ever appearance at a national competition....

Several issues were discussed at Wednesday's NIU athletic board meeting, but perhaps the highlight was the discussion of NIU's replacement of former head football coach Jerry Pettibone. Pettibone officially announced his departure from NIU and his acceptance...

Jerry Pettibone made it official Wednesday afternoon. The 51-year old Pettibone, who has been NIU's head football coach since 1985, officially accepted football head coaching duties at Oregon State University at a press conference held at the Corvallis,...

The Jerry Pettibone era of NIU football will come to an end at a Wednesday press conference at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. NIU Athletic Director Gerald O'Dell confirmed to The Northern Star late Tuesday night that Pettibone has accepted...

Prior to the official announcement of Jerry Pettibone's acceptance of the Oregon State University coaching job, some Huskies football players said NIU will be hard-pressed to find a better coach. "Basically, he's the reason why we had such a great turnaround...

Jerry Pettibone established himself as the first NIU head football coach to string together three consecutive winning seasons since the 1960s with the Huskies 6-5 mark this year. Pettibone, whose career head-coaching record is 33-32-1 in six seasons at...

NIU head football coach Jerry Pettibone arrived in Portland, Ore. Monday night to discuss the vacant head coaching job at Oregon State University, a position that Pettibone said he has been offered. Pettibone told the Northern Star Monday morning that...

DePaul University officially announced its departure from the North Star Conference to form the Great Midwest Conference Thursday during a press conference at the Chicago Athletic Club. "It's official," DePaul Associate Athletics Director, Jean nsetto...