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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...

Graduate assistants aid Huskie wrestlers

By Paul Keller | December 2, 1987

The NIU wrestling team gets some valuable leadership from a group of dedicated graduate assistant coaches who are rewarded by seeing the wrestlers do well in tournaments. Huskie coach Ed Vatch said he cannot express how vital these grad assistants are...

Huskies fall just short against Badgers

By Dave Tuley | December 2, 1987

MADISON, Wis.—The NIU men's basketball team has to learn how to win. The Huskies fell 87-77 to Wisconsin Tuesday night in the Dane County Coliseum before 4,775 fans. NIU came back from a 14-point deficit to pull within 72-69 with 5:42 remaining, but...

Turnovers halt NIU dream of beating OSU Buckeyes

By Kari Brackett | December 2, 1987

NIU's women cagers learned their lesson the hard way with a 89-73 loss to the Ohio State Buckeyes at Chick Evans Field House Tuesday night. The Huskies found out they had to hold on to the ball to produce any offense. Nineteen turnovers in the first half...

Coaches: North Star will survive loss of duo

By Tom Clegg | December 2, 1987

The North Star Conference will survive despite the loss of Notre Dame and Dayton next year. That is the consensus of NIU Women's Athletic Director Susie Pembroke-Jones, volleyball coach Herb Summers and women's basketball coach Jane Albright. While all...

Coaches detail past problems

By Jim Wozniak | December 1, 1987

Although NIU men's basketball player John Culbertson's collegiate coaches said they are unaware of his active warrant, two former assistants said they had problems with him during their two years together. Culbertson is the subject of a warrant in connection...

Huskies hit cheeseland for battle with Badgers

By Dave Tuley | December 1, 1987

The NIU men's basketball team and the Wisconsin Badgers are in the odd position of trying to rebound from opening victories. Both teams enter tonight's 7:05 p.m. contest at the Dane County Coliseum with 1-0 records after victories in which they felt they...

Notre Dame, Dayton to leave North Star

By Tom Clegg | December 1, 1987

And then there was one. The North Star Conference will lose two more of its charter members following this spring's softball championships when Dayton and Notre Dame leave for the Midwestern Cities Conference next year. DePaul is the only original NSC...

Huskies to face highly ranked OSU

By Kari Brackett | December 1, 1987

Ohio State's women's basketball team, ranked 10th in the nation by Sports Illustrated and 11th by the Associated Press, will invade Chick Evans Field House tonight to take on the Huskies in a 7:30 p.m. contest. Not only are the Huskies excited because...

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...

NIU to face nation’s leading rusher?

By Dave Tuley | November 23, 1987

University of Pittsburgh's Craig Heyward rushed for 259 yards Saturday, prompting sportscasters and newspapers across the nation to call him the nation's top ground-gainer for the season. But wait. There is one back who still has a game to play—Elbert...

Spikers place third in NSC tournament

By Kari Brackett | November 23, 1987

Notre Dame's volleyball squad defended its North Star Conference title Sunday, defeating NIU in the finals of the NSC Tournament 15-7, 10-15, 15-8, 15-6 at DePaul's Alumni Gym. The Huskies finished second in the tournament with their only weekend loss...