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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: Northwestern cops 2020 quarterback commit

November 11, 2018

Football On Sunday, three-star quarterback Aidan Atkinson announced his commitment to Northwestern, its first commit in the Class of 2020. Atkinson, a junior from Fairview High School in Colorado,...

Football: With nearly four dozen starts under his belt, Thorson establishes himself as Northwestern great

Football: With nearly four dozen starts under his belt, Thorson establishes himself as Northwestern great

October 26, 2018

Mick McCall has been coaching college football since 1979. In those 40 seasons, for all the players he’s coached, he’s never seen one take notes like Clayton Thorson. “I don’t know how many...

Flynn Nagel eyes the yard line needed for a first down in Northwestern’s crucial fourth-down conversion last Saturday against Rutgers. The Wildcats are 8-for-18 on fourth downs so far this season.

Football: Northwestern’s offensive ideology now revolves around fourth downs, for better or worse

October 25, 2018

Football Clayton Thorson stepped forward in the pocket, released the ball just as two Rutgers linemen converged and hit Flynn Nagel for a crucial fourth-and-4 conversion late in last Saturday’s...

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Football: Without Larkin, Northwestern’s rushing attack stifled by Michigan

September 29, 2018

Football For the first time since 2013, Northwestern does not have a reliable, established lead running back to rely upon offensively. Monday’s news that sophomore Jeremy Larkin would have to...

Football: Over a decade, how have Mick McCall’s Northwestern offenses fared?

Football: Over a decade, how have Mick McCall’s Northwestern offenses fared?

September 27, 2018

It’s one of the oldest tropes for grated college football fans: Fire the offensive coordinator. For every Lincoln Riley, the Oklahoma head coach and former offensive coordinator who designed the Sooners’...

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