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The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Food poisoning, the end of a dynasty and the 1959 Northwestern-Oklahoma football game

Food poisoning, the end of a dynasty and the 1959 Northwestern-Oklahoma football game

November 8, 2019

Football It was the biggest game of the 1959 college football season’s opening weekend. No. 2 Oklahoma — a national powerhouse that had lost just two games over the previous five seasons —...

The Weekly: Looking back on Northwestern’s historic rivalry with Notre Dame

November 12, 2018

Northwestern’s face-off with Notre Dame was another part of a decades-long rivalry. -- Marissa Martinez and Chris Vasquez

Ara Parseghian (right) and former Northwestern athletic director Stu Holcomb look at a newspaper during the late 1950s.

Football: Former coach Ara Parseghian dies at age 94

August 2, 2017

Football Ara Parseghian, who coached Northwestern from 1956 to 1963, died Wednesday morning at the age of 94, according to ESPN. Parseghian compiled at 36-35-1 record with the Wildcats — a level...

Ara Parseghian instructs a group of Northwestern football players. Parseghian coached NU from 1956 to 1963.

Football: Rediscovering Ara Parseghian’s forgotten legacy of innovation at Northwestern

July 27, 2017

Fifty-four years after Northwestern’s most recent tenure as the nation’s No. 1 football team, members of the remarkable 1962 team gathered last fall for a reunion with their then-93-year-old coach:...

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