Despite only one victory against a Western Conference opponent (Illinois, 1903), Chalmers compiled a 24-8 record with the Hawkeyes. At the time, he had the highest winning percentage of any Hawkeye head…
Month: March 2022
Alden Knipe: Head Coach Iowa Hawkeyes (1898-1902)
Knipe was considered one of the greatest players of the nineteenth century. Playing for the Pennsylvania Quakers, he was known for having scored a touchdown against the Walter Camp coached Yale team…
Otto Wagonhurst: Head Coach Iowa Hawkeyes (1897)
After coaching football for the University of Alabama (1896) and Iowa (1897), Otto played professionally for the Pittsburgh Duquesne Country and Athletic Club and the Homestead Library and Athletic Club. He won…
Alfred Bull: Head Coach Iowa Hawkeyes (1896)
Won Iowa’s first conference championship 7-1-1 (2-0-1 Conference).
Roger Sherman: Head Coach Iowa Hawkeyes (1894)
Played for Michigan until 1893 and then coached Iowa starting the very next year in 1894. Sherman was implicated in a series of articles by Caspar Whitney who claimed that schools of…
Ben Donnelly: Head Coach Iowa Hawkeyes (1893)
The second ever known professional football player, Donelly was paid $250 for a game played on November 19, 1892 by the Allegheny Athletic Association against Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team. He…
Edwin Dalton: Head Coach Iowa Hawkeyes (1892)
Coach Dalton was the first paid football coach for the Iowa Hawkeye’s with a tenure that lasted only ten days in October of 1892.