EVANSTON — We're only one game into the 2015 football season. Eleven games, or more, still remain. But already, the 2015 Northwestern Wildcats have an identity. And it's a defensive one.
Northwestern took down No. 21 Stanford on Saturday, and it did so because it kept the Cardinal out of the end zone altogether. The Wildcat offense mustered one touchdown, a Clayton Thorson run in second quarter... but in the end, that's all it would need.
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"It was probably one of the best [defensive] performances I've seen — top to bottom, against a ranked team — maybe in my time [at Northwestern]," coach Pat Fitzgerald said afterwards.