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Iowa's defense lines up against Syracuse on September 8, 2007.. This is a list of seasons completed by the Iowa Hawkeyes football program since the team's inception in 1889. . The list documents season-by-season records, and conference records from 1892 to 1896 and 1900 to the prese
The Hawkeyes represent the University of Iowa. Although Iowa began competing in intercollegiate football in 1889, [1] the school's official record book considers the "modern era" to have begun in 1939. Records from before this year are often incomplete and inconsistent, and they are generally not included in these lists.
He had a 16–27–2 record. His first team finished 5–4, which would be Iowa's last winning record for 20 years. Ray Nagel followed from 1966 to 1970 with a 16–32–2 record. A 3-3-2 record in 1963 and consecutive 5–5 records in 1968 and 1969 would be the Hawks' only non-losing records from 1962 to 1980.
But that all changed in 1981, a magical season for Hawkeye fans. Iowa began the season by upsetting Nebraska, a team that had defeated Iowa 57–0 the previous season. Iowa had a record of 8–3 in the regular season in 1981, their first winning record in 21 years. The Hawks also garnered a share of the Big Ten title and a Rose Bowl berth. Iowa ...
In his first season in Iowa City, Heller helped guide the Hawkeyes to a 9–1 start—the program's best start since 1940—a Big Ten tournament berth and conference tournament win. Iowa finished the year with a 30–23 record for just the third 30-win season since 1993. The 30 victories are the most by a first-year coach in Iowa history. [13]
What do the top 25 passing seasons in Hawkeyes history look like? Here's the best passing seasons in Iowa's black and gold.
The 1934 game between the Hawkeyes and Golden Gophers had been filled with controversy over the treatment of Iowa star halfback Ozzie Simmons. Simmons was also one of the few black football players of that era, and several rough hits by the Gophers on Simmons forced him to leave the game multiple times in Minnesota’s 48–12 victory.
The Iowa–Nebraska football rivalry [2] [3] [4] is an American college football rivalry between the Iowa Hawkeyes and Nebraska Cornhuskers. The rivalry is usually held on the Friday after Thanksgiving.