Practice report: Tuesday, Sept. 6

No practice report from Monday, as the Outsider crew was only in attendance for about half of the practice. The Huskies took to the field, in hot weather, for two hours on Tuesday. It is expected that the temperatures will again be hot on Friday, so today’s conditions were good preparation for game day. -The | Full Article

Klause trains with former Huskie great in preparation for return to gridiron

Mark Klause was a blue chip recruit, at running back, for the Huskies in 2007, after being an electric playmaker in high school. He redshirted during his first year, and impressed on the show team. He then suffered an injury in the first game of the 2009 regular season, and is only returning to action | Full Article

Practice 8 report: Monday evening

It was 32 degrees when the Huskies took to the field at 5:00 for their second practice of the day. Thankfully, it began to cool down a little during the second hour of the practice. In the scrimmage, at the beginning of practice, the defense surrendered one rush of 10 yards to Mark Klause, but | Full Article

Coach Houle comments on the running backs

In 2010, the Huskies used a “rush by committee” in order to finish second in the Canada West conference in yards gained on the ground. In 2011, it is likely that the Dogs will again use several different backs, hopefully with similar success. It is a fairly deep group of running backs, but in most | Full Article

2011 Huskie Preview: Running Backs

Position: Running Back Returning Veterans: Ben Coakwell (4th year), Alex Balogun (4th year), Connor Lutz (3rd year), Mark Klause (3rd year), Jeremy Andrew (1st year), Dexter Janke (1st year), Devin Sapara (1st year), Shane Buchannan (1st year), Joey Deason (1st year) New Recruits: Kent Rempel The Huskies are in a familiar situation when it comes | Full Article

The depth at running back

Sometime last winter I remember Huskies Head Coach Brian Towriss talking to the Alumni about the recruiting class he was assembling. One thing that stuck out in my mind was BT talking about running backs. There was a recruit on the fence because of the depth that the Huskies had. At the same time, there | Full Article

Training Camp Report: Practice 9 (Wednesday pm)

The Huskie Outsider training camp reports are sponsored by Gabruch Legal Group. Practice nine is in the books. The team was on the field for about an hour and forty minutes on Wednesday afternoon in their final full work-out before the big game against Western Ontario on Friday night. Thursday they have a special teams | Full Article

Let’s go Dogs! 21 days until Mark Klause is unleashed!

The countdown to the Canada West season rolls on with #21, Mark Klause. Klause was sidelined, for the year, with a knee injury after just 2 carries in the first game of the 2009 season. From Saskatoon’s Aden Bowman Collegiate, he is a speedy tailback who is looking forward to being a valuable contributor in | Full Article

The Big Question: Running Backs

Over the next few weeks, we will ask a question about each of the units on the Huskies Football Team. We started with Quarterbacks and Offensive Line and today we will look at the Running Backs. The Big Question for the Running Backs is can they stay healthy? If the running backs can stay healthy, | Full Article

Huskies play for a cure

We ran this story a few weeks ago, but we wanted to run it again because the Huskies will be doing some special things at the CanadaWest semi-final against the Rams to support cancer research. Many of the players moms will be going through the stands collecting funds for the “Huskie Play for a Cure.” | Full Article