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Linksters tee off schedule

By Laura Higgins | September 4, 1991

With five returning players and three promising freshmen, the NIU women's golf team holds high hopes for its fall season opener this weekend at the Veenker Memorial Golf Course. The Huskies will head for Ames, Iowa, to tee off in the Iowa State University...

It’s finally time to play football

By David Lance | September 4, 1991

NIU fans anxious for football and tired of being force-fed facts, figures and quotes from the Huskies, take heed; NIU's season opener is almost here. But first, here's some more facts, figures and quotes on the upcoming game. Game day: Saturday. Game...

Kosak, Mason shine in tourney

By Jennifer Hutchins | September 2, 1991

Head volleyball coach Pete Waite left the Colorado State University Tournament this weekend breathing a little easier. Not only did his team play its first game of the season, but the Huskies walked away with a 2-1 finish and two All-Tournament players....

Field hockey squad filled with freshmen

By Todd McMahon | September 2, 1991

Don't tell NIU field hockey coach Laurie Bell that prospective freshmen were being turned away at the door by school admissions this fall because all she sees this season are freshmen, freshmen, freshmen. Make that 13 new faces altogether to go along...

Marcus and Karsten seek own identities

By Hyun Moon | September 2, 1991

This is the year identical twins, Marcus and Karsten Roy, step out of their big brother's shadow. For the past three years Marcus, a goalie, and Karsten, a sweeper, have been the anchors of the NIU soccer team's defense, while big brother Willy Roy Jr....

Friend, former coach now foes

By Jennifer Hutchins | September 2, 1991

The freshmen jitters can shake up any new player during the first game of the season. But for NIU's Shelby Snyder, the Huskies' season-opener against Cal-State University Fullerton was doubly unsettling. Across the net from Snyder was her best friend,...

Change in width no big deal to kickers

By David Lance | August 28, 1991

A football kicker's life is relatively simple: make the game-winning field goal and be proclaimed hero or miss it and be dubbed goat. College placekickers' chances of being campus Capricorns were enhanced with the announcement by the NCAA last year that...

Preseason drills taking toll on Huskies

By Hyun Moon | August 28, 1991

Injuries have forced coach Charlie Sadler to pull the reins on football practice, but he said the team will be at full speed against Fresno State. As of Wednesday, 13 players could not practice due to injuries. "We've been fortunate that none of these...

Prize transfer

By Gregory Janicki | August 28, 1991

Considering the NIU baseball team was comprised of 25 walk-ons last season, it's no wonder Joe "Spanky" McFarland is smiling over new faces. One new visage that the second-year skipper is particularly excited about is that of second baseman Tom O'Neill,...

Roy’s kicks target a new goal

By Wes Swietek | August 28, 1991

Willy Roy Jr., the former Huskies' soccer standout who's currently trying his foot—er, hand—at football kicking, has had to make a lot of adjustments lately. You usually don't have 250-pound athletes sprinting at you during soccer games, the shape...

Jeray continues

August 28, 1991

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And that is exactly what NIU linkster Nicole Jeray gets to do when she competes in her second LPGA tournament in as many weeks. Saturday through Monday, the Huskie senior takes part in the Rail Classic at...

Rugby ready

By Todd McMahon | August 28, 1991

Any student interested in joining the Rugby Club should attend the first practice of the season on Tuesday which begins at 4 p.m. on the field behind Stevenson Towers. "Everyone is welcome to join, but it would be nice to get some ex-football players...