NIU's field hockey squad left the east coast clean over the weekend after a three-day, four match sweep. The Huskies' winning ways began on Friday by defeating American University 5-0. On Saturday, Richmond and Loyola College fell prey to the Huskies...

The Kansas State Wildcats and the Mississippi Lady Rebels will invade DeKalb to participate in the NIU Triangular volleyball tournament this weekend. And NIU head volleyball coach Pete Waite put his Huskies through a rigorous four-hour practice Thursday...

Victory on the road was attainable for the NIU soccer team last night as the Huskies defeated Loyola University 4-1 in Chicago. The game was the Huskies second of the fall schedule and allowed the team to make up for the season-opening loss to Southern...

NIU's field hockey squad lost a 3-0 decision to the Northwestern Wildcats Wednesday afternoon at Dyche Stadium. The Huskies slate fell to 1-2 while the 'Cats made it their season-opening victory, for a 1-0 record. NU's Antoinette Lucas started things...

If only the NIU volleyball team could pack away some of its radiating confidence and bring it back out at the end of the season, the Huskies would have a good shot at the North Star Conference crown. The spikers, under coaching of new boss Pete Waite...

After finishing seventh in the country last spring, the NIU women's softball team has a big task ahead of them this year. With 14 of last year's 18 players returning, the prospects look good. Their one-month fall season will definitely help fill in the...

Without the leadership of the coaches, the football squad could not function. Here's to the Huskie staff. Jerry Pettibone—The NIU head boss enters his fourth season at the Huskie helm, which might prove to be his most successful ever. The 49-year-old...

NIU men's tennis coach Carl Neufeld, and women's coach Patty Groth both predict a successful season for Huskie tennis. The men's team returns this year led by junior Steve Wiere. As a freshman, Wiere qualified for the NCAA tournament and filled the number...

Here's how we see the 1988 Huskie football season. Akron, Sept. 3 (Home)—The Zips upset NIU 27-21 in 1987. Coach Gerry Faust has a huge offensive line, but Huskies don't figure to lose two straight at home to Zips. Pick_ NIU by 6 Middle Tennessee State,...

Everywhere you look, in every college football preview magazine around, it says the same thing. The fate of the 1988 NIU football team is in the hands of quarterback Marshall Taylor. How he goes, the Huskies go. Stop Taylor, and you've stopped NIU. Right?...

Suited in shoulder pads and a helmet, his 6-foot-2, 220-pound rugged, muscular body portrays a fearless human being with a killer instinct. Yet inside he is very apprehensive. As a high school senior wanting to play college football, he must start from...

When a team has a coach that has won championship titles on the professional level, there is hope that he can be the spark that ignites the fire. NIU head soccer coach Willy Roy brings his years of playing and coaching experience to NIU to begin his second...