After solid effort at Oregon, Eastern tries to collect first-ever victory in Northern Iowa's UNI dome
Eastern Washington's All-American receiver Cooper Kupp delivers a stiff-arm at Oregon defender Ugo Amadi last Saturday. Kupp had another standout performance when he established Autzen Stadium records for catches with 15 and yards with 246. Kupp will have another hostile stadium crowd to try to quiet this Saturday in Cedar Falls, Iowa where the Eagles face perennial FCS power, the Northern Iowa Panthers..
rom ear-splitting noise outdoors, to ear-splitting noise indoors. That's the environment No. 7 Eastern Washington faces as they travel to Cedar Falls, Iowa this Saturday for an 11 a.m. Central Time kickoff at No. 14 University of Northern Iowa's UNI Dome.
However, if 58,000 screaming fans at Autzen Stadium in Eugene didn't much rattle the Eagles in their 61-42 opening week loss to Pac-12 power Oregon, then maybe 15,000 indoors will not either.
EWU play-by-play broadcaster Larry Weir remembers there being no place for the noise to go inside the 40-year-old dome.
"We know that playing at their h...
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