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59 days after Iowa became a state, The University of Iowa was established on February 25, 1847. Although classes wouldn't begin until March 1855 and a football team wouldn't take the field for another 44 years.
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References to "hawk-eye" go back to the 1800's, popularized at the time by James Fenimore Cooper's book, "Last of the Mohicans." Letters to Iowa newspapers were often signed, "Hawk-eye." Iowa residents ever since are called hawk-eyes.
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A Michigan man with a long career in Iowa
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A knee injury took him off the field. As a high school coach he did well, but at the collegiate, average.
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His shortest coaching tenure was at Iowa while he filled in for Eddie Anderson who was still serving in the army.
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Most of his career was spent at St Mary's where he took a small school and built a football team capable of defeating Rose Bowl teams.
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As a player he was coached by Knute Rockne; teammates with George Gipp. As a coach he coached Nile Kinnick. Also, a gift doctor.
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Solem signed a three-year contract with the Hawkeye's, replacing coach Burt Ingwersen as the programs 13th head coach.
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Ingwersen received a scholarship to play football at the University of Illinois. He played under Robert Zuppke from 1917 to 1919.
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Howard Jones coached football for a variety of schools compiling an overall record of 194-64-21 and 5 National Championships. During his time at Yale, he played for a team that won 28 games and only tied twice but never lost.
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Iowa finished the 1910 season 5-2, including a loss to Missouri. Before traveling for the game...
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Griffith was a star player for some of the greatest Hawkeye teams ever. In 1899, he...
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Catlin played football at the University of Chicago where, in 1905, he accounted for...
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Despite only one victory against a Western Conference opponent (Illinois, 1903), Chalmers compiled...
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Knipe was considered one of the greatest players of the nineteenth century. Playing for...
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Coach Dalton was the first paid football coach for the Iowa Hawkeye’s with...
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After coaching football for the University of Alabama (1896) and Iowa (1897), Otto played professionally for...
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Won Iowa’s first conference championship...
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Played for Michigan until 1893 and then coached Iowa starting the very next year in 1894. Sherman was implicated in...
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The second ever known professional football player, Donelly was paid $250 for a game played on November 19, 1892...
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