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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


Football player wearing white carries a football against two opposing players dressed in black and orange on a football field.

Football: Northwestern aims to rebound after down year and tough offseason

August 12, 2022

Northwestern has adopted a Jekyll-and-Hyde persona in recent years. The Wildcats capped off a nine-win season in 2018 with a victory in the Holiday Bowl, followed by a dismal 3-9 campaign in 2019. NU...

Brockway: To the people I’ve learned from along the way

June 6, 2021

Graduation Issue 2021 The line that “the journey is the destination” is easy to overuse. You hear it plenty of times in sports — it’s not about the fact that you lost on a goalkeeper penalty...

Pat Fitzgerald and Jesse Brown left the Citrus Bowl trophy. Northwestern won the game 35-19.

Football: No. 14 Northwestern beats Auburn in Citrus Bowl for 4th straight bowl victory

January 1, 2021

Football The last time Pat Fitzgerald took a trip to Orlando with Northwestern, as a senior linebacker on Gary Barnett’s 1996 Wildcats team, he watched a quarterback named Peyton pass and throw...

Earnest Brown IV picks up a loose football. The senior defensive end had 3.5 tackles on Friday.

Football: Northwestern’s fourth-quarter performance makes the difference in the Citrus Bowl

January 1, 2021

Football If life is a game of inches, the 2021 Citrus Bowl was a game of centimeters. Trying to march down the field and tie the game at the start of the fourth, Auburn faced a fourth-and-incredibly-short...

 Auburn linebacker Barton Lester (51) reacts after scoring a touchdown on a blocked punt against Arkansas on Oct. 10, 2020.

Football: 7 questions with Auburn beat writer Nathan King ahead of Citrus Bowl

December 31, 2020

Football Two weeks after losing to Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship Game, No. 14 Northwestern is in Florida to face off against Auburn in the Citrus Bowl. The two teams have only faced off...

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