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Attendance problems continue to plague NIU

By Hyun Moon | November 20, 1991

The attendance woes continue for NIU athletics. But it's no surprise the home attendance figures for NIU football games have dropped, considering the Huskies' 2-8 record. This year, the Huskies drew an average of 11,573 fans at Huskie Stadium, compared...

Snyder Huskies’ unsung MVP

By Jennifer Hutchins | November 20, 1991

The NIU volleyball team's Shelby Snyder could be one of NIU's greatest unsung heroes. In her first season with the Huskies, the starting freshman setter has yet to receive any "player-of-the-week" honors, all-tournament recognition or tournament MVP awards....

Whitney Young duo back together again

By Todd McMahon | November 19, 1991

They're back. The Whitney Young High School connection will be making its presence full-time this year for the NIU women's basketball team. For the first time in two years, Cindy Conner and E.C. Hill will be on the same court in an official basketball...

Huskies hike for mountain peak

By David Lance | November 19, 1991

"All I wanted was to get back to safe ground again and have a long rest,"—Sir Edmund Hillary, 1955. Hillary said those words in his book High Adventure. It was his first reaction after scaling a mountain. NIU's women's basketball team may share the...

Hill maintains composure despite leadership status

By David Lance | November 19, 1991

The heat is on E.C. Hill, but she remains collected. She has never played in an official college basketball game, yet her coach, NIU's women's basketball head boss Jane Albright-Dieterle, said she will be the main attraction—a leader relied on to score...

Dove’s position changes, but role remains

By Todd McMahon | November 19, 1991

Her position on the court may have changed, but the impact of one Denise Dove is even more advantageous to the NIU women's basketball team. The playmaking extraordinaire may have used up her four years of player eligibility, but she is back in the NIU...

Redbirds provide different taste for departing seniors

By Wes Swietek | November 19, 1991

The NIU football team's 27-24 victory over Illinois State Saturday received as warm a welcome in Huskie-land as a fat turkey does on Thanksgiving. The win provided fine dining for the Huskies' 15 seniors making their final appearance at Huskie Stadium....

Loss not pretty, but record stands at 0-0

By Todd McMahon | November 19, 1991

The experience of the Australian National women's basketball team showed, and consequently, the mistakes piled up for NIU Sunday. For Huskie head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle, the Australians simply came in and stole everything away in their 93-67 victory...

NIU end of long journey for top-Huskie Hammel

By Wes Swietek | November 19, 1991

It is a long and winding road that finds New York-born Brian Hammel living and working in DeKalb. A road littered with basketballs. For it is mainly due to Hammel's profession—he is a collegiate basketball coach—that he looks out his kitchen window...

NIU to use Oil for final tune-up

By Wes Swietek | November 19, 1991

The NIU men's basketball team faces its final tune-up of the season against Marathon Oil tonight before facing the long drive of the regular season. Head mechanic, err, head coach Brian Hammel and his running Huskies face one of the top amateur teams...

Australians teach Huskies lesson in basketball, 93-67

By David Lance | November 18, 1991

If the Australian National women's basketball team's coach Robbee Cadee needs someone to vouch that his team deserves to be in the 1992 Summer Olympics, he should contact DeKalb. "They're wanting to qualify for the Olympics," NIU head coach Jane Albright-Dieterle...

Wrestlers learn lesson in duals

By Gregory Janicki | November 18, 1991

The NIU wrestling squad took a lot of youth and inexperience to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for dual meets Saturday. The only thing they got out of the meet was a lesson. What head coach Ed Vatch called a "positive experience," most people would...