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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...

Spikers snap 3-game skid

By Kari Brackett | November 5, 1987

NIU's volleyball team ended a three-game losing streak Wednesday night by defeating Bradley 15-12, 15-7, 15-3 at Chick Evans Field House. Besides halting their losing streak, the Huskies brought their record back to the .500 mark at 12-12. Bradley dropped...

Soccer season ends tonight vs. NU

By Tom Clegg | November 4, 1987

There is more on the line than just a victory Wednesday night as two separate individual battles highlight NIU's 7 p.m. soccer match with Northwestern at Huskie Stadium. Entering their final match of 1987, the Huskies have two players fighting to capture...

Roys’ boys lose 1-0 in IHSA playoff game

By Tom Clegg | November 4, 1987

Fenton High School might call itself the Bison, but anyone who has ever watched its soccer team will tell you the name ought to be the Fenton Roys. Playing in their last high school match Tuesday night, twin brothers Markus and Karsten Roy, sons of NIU...

Volleyball team at home tonight

By Kari Brackett | November 4, 1987

Consistency is the key word for tonight's volleyball match between NIU and Bradley in Chick Evans Field House at 7:30 p.m. For the Huskies, playing consistent will be important to bring the team back up to the .500 record mark. For the Lady Braves, it...

Women practice basics

By Kari Brackett | November 4, 1987

With 24 days before its first game, the women's basketball team is going full force in practices. While opening day seems far away, it is actually right around the corner for the Huskies, and coach Jane Albright said she wants her team to be consistent....

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...

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.

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...

Gophers defeat Huskies in four

By Kari Brackett | November 2, 1987

The NIU volleyball team's record fell below .500 for the first time this season, after the Huskies lost to Minnesota Saturday 8-15, 15-5, 15-12, 15-8 at Minneapolis. The Huskies' record stands at 11-12, while the Gophers moved their slate to 18-9. Although...

Women wet feet; 2nd in invitational

November 2, 1987

Women's swimming coach Mike Burt wanted to see his squad get its feet wet by having it compete in the Colorado State University Early Bird Invitational over the weekend. The Huskies responded with a second-place finish in the four-team invitational in...

Albright still without a point

By Dan Moran | October 29, 1987

With the season opener at Butler less than a month away, all the pieces seem to be in place for the NIU women's basketball team. That is, all except for one. As the Huskies entered their third week of practice, head coach Jane Albright was ready to start...

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