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Game-by-game analysis

By Dave Tuley | December 3, 1987

NIU's football season took a roller coaster ride through the season, basically ending back where it started, with a .500 record. The Huskies had one two-game winning streak and one two-game losing streak while alternating the rest of the time to compile...

Season of ‘ifs’ for football team

By Dan Moran | December 3, 1987

Let us simply look at the record, and a picture of the 1986 season—and the stage the NIU football program has reached—naturally emerges. Five wins, five losses and one tie. The five wins, three more than in 1986, show you progress. The five losses...

Taylor might miss spring practice

By Dan Moran | December 1, 1987

There were questions to be answered Monday before the football version of the weekly Huskie Club Luncheon could go into cold storage. Questions about Nevada-Las Vegas. About the upcoming recruiting season. And about the status of injured Huskie quarterback...

Football team, seniors look for 5th win vs. ailing Akron

By Tom Clegg | November 13, 1987

The Akron Zips are a sick football team. The school's weak 3-6 record and ailing defense, which is giving up an average of 389.1 yards per game, seems to have affected the players. Truth is, many of the Zips might be feeling out of sorts for Saturday's...

Fresh start for Faust at Akron

By Dan Moran | November 12, 1987

Like the Akron football program he heads, Gerry Faust is rebuilding. Six years ago, Faust started his first season as head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, fresh off 18 years of guiding a juggernaut high school program in Cincinnati. Saturday,...

Scheduling process discussed

By Gary Sadewater | November 12, 1987

Scheduling philosophies, the budget and the admissions for gymnastic events were among the topics discussed Wednesday at the monthly board meeting. At the request of the new scheduling subcommittee, Robert Brigham and Susie Pembroke-Jones submitted scheduling...

Huskies roll past Leathernecks

By Dave Tuley | November 9, 1987

Good things come to those who score first. NIU, now 4-4-1, took an early lead Saturday and held on by shutting out WIU in the second half to win 29-14 before a Parents' Day crowd of 21,863 at Huskie Stadium. Red-shirt freshman kicker John Ivanic opened...

Coaches give opinions on drug testing

By Chris Sigley | November 5, 1987

Len Bias chose to celebrate, as any person would, when he was picked as a first-round draft choice for the World Champion Boston Celtics in June of 1986. Unfortunately for Bias, that one moment of glory is all he will ever receive as he was found dead...

Players: Hotel change OK

By Dave Tuley | November 5, 1987

Most members of the NIU football team are unhappy to be staying in Rockford Friday night, but say it will not affect them during Saturday's 1 p.m. game against Western Illinois on Parents' Day. The Huskies are holding their meetings, spending the night...

Football notebook

By Dan Moran and Dave Tuley | November 2, 1987

MUNCIE, Ind.—NIU came into the game tied for fourth in the nation in turnover ratio with a plus-1.6 ranking.

Normally you wouldn't expect such a team to fumble eight times, but that's what the Huskies did Saturday. You also wouldn't expect all eight of those fumbles to be recovered by the Huskies, but they were.

However, Ball State did manage to pick off a Marshall Taylor pass to set up their fourth touchdown. It was the Huskies' only turnover of the day, but it also killed Taylor's string of 78 pass attempts without an interception, dating back to the second game of the year against Western Michigan.

Long-snapper Joe Spillane, who left last week's game with a neck strain, made the trip to Ball State but did not travel with the team Friday. Pettibone said men's basketball secretary Sandy Gilchrist volunteered to drive Spillane to Muncie Saturday morning so he could attend his law classes.

Huskie boss Jerry Pettibone said the overwhelming loss would be "a real gut check for the coaches, and a character check for the players. I'm counting on the right response."

Assistant coach Pat Ruel said he did not know the reason Ball State has won 13 of 14 from NIU, but, "we're going to find out what the hell it is and do something about it."

Down 42-17 in the fourth quarter, the Huskies resorted to trickery when Kent Iwema took a pitch from Pete Genatempo and tried an option pass back to Genatempo. The senior quarterback made a diving attempt, which one official ruled successful and back judge Eugene Wodzisz overruled.

"I caught it," Genatempo said. "The ref who made the call was behind the play—way out of position. I tried to ask him about it. He didn't say anything."

Former NIU coach Bill Mallory's Indiana Hoosiers fell out of first place in the Big Ten with a 29-21 loss at Iowa Saturday.

First quarter dooms Huskies

By Dave Tuley | November 2, 1987

MUNCIE, Ind.—After two exciting finishes in a row, the situation looked similar when the NIU football team spotted the Ball State Cardinals 21 points in the first quarter Saturday. But the deficit was too large to overcome as the Huskies lost 42-17...

Grid squad haunted by ‘Ball State Curse’

By Dan Moran | November 2, 1987

MUNCIE, Ind.—A game played on Halloween, and under the spector of something called "the Ball State curse," is bound to have more revolting developments than a Hitchcock classic. One look at a 42-17 score should tell both sports fans and lovers of the...

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