[NU Sports] Favorite NU vs. Illinois games

[Jason Singer]

Well, I'll be the first to ask...if you can find the prints...can you post
them? I'm sure we'd love to have them on our Desktop screens!

- jason

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Cynthia Dueltgen
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:17 PM
To: Joe Thiegs
Cc: NU Sports List
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Favorite NU vs. Illinois games

I post really infrequently, but I had to pipe up on this one.  I'm
going to go with the 1992 game at Illinios.  Pardon my reminisce.

That game was so much fun.  It was my senior year, and after four
years in NUMB I realized I'd never gotten to tailgate.  Ever.  So some
of my friends and I made it a mission to go to as many away games that
year as we could.  We hit Purdue and Illinois as fans and Iowa with
the band, so we only missed one Big Ten away game.

We were just a little corner of Purple in the end zone, but it was the
end zone they scored in twice in the last two minutes to win the game.
 I'm pretty sure I lost my voice.  On the way in to the game we passed
the Sutter family tailgate.  They gave us food, which meant the world
as poor students.

My boyfriend at the time was the Photo Editor of the Daily.  He'd
rented a special lens for the game and shot some of it in color, which
was rare.  I'm pretty sure I still have one or two of those prints
somewhere.  They're beautiful.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.  Go Cats!

-Cynthia

On 11/15/06, Joe Thiegs <thiegs at umn.edu> wrote:
> I can't believe no one has mentioned the 1992 game in Champaign, with the
> miraculous fourth-quarter comeback to win 27-26 on a diving touchdown
> reception by Pat Wright (? -- it wasn't Gissendaner, was it?) on a throw
> from Lenny Williams.  I think it was Gary Barnett's first significant win.
> My memories are a little fuzzy, as it was my freshman year, I
(regrettably)
> didn't travel to the game and so I only listened to it on the radio.
> Someone refresh my recollection.  How much did we trail?  How did we come
> back?
>
> -Joe
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Jim Leonard
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:27 PM
> To: NU Sports List
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Favorite NU vs. Illinois games
>
> I'd have to go with 1995. Granted, Matt Hartl got away with a hold on the
> "39 toss" play that kept the Big Ten unbeated streak alive, but I was in
the
> endzone seats with many screaming NU fans and I enjoyed every second of
it.
> And the 62-21 pasting in 2001? was special too.
>
> Victory & Honor,
> Jim
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jim Bendat <thehaze at earthlink.net>
> To: NU Sports List <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:07:06 PM
> Subject: [NU Sports] Favorite NU vs. Illinois games
>
>
> Okay, I'll start a new thread:  favorite NU-Illinois games from the past.
>
> I'll pick two:  1970 -- we had started the season 0-3, but really seemed
> to be better than that.  Our first conference game was against the
> Illini.  We were hoping to get that elusive win.  We got it, all right
> -- by an amazing score of 48-0.  We then started to roll.  We finished
> 6-1 in the conference, tied with Michigan for second place, one game
> behind Ohio State.
>
> My other selection is 1996.  Adrian Autry took over for an injured
> Darnell Autry and scored the winning TD with about a minute to play.
> Final score:  NU, 27-24.
>
> Okay, gang, your turn!
>
> Jim B.
>
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