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The Iowa Hawkeyes football program is a college football team that represents the University of Iowa in the Big Ten Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The program has had 25 head coaches since organized football began in 1889. Iowa has played in over 1,200 games during its 127 seasons.
John Hayden Fry (February 28, 1929 – December 17, 2019) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Southern Methodist University (SMU) from 1962 to 1972, North Texas State University—now known as the University of North Texas—from 1973 to 1978, and the University of Iowa from 1979 to 1998, compiling a career coaching record of 232–178–10.
On December 2, 1998, Ferentz was hired as Iowa's 25th head football coach to replace the retiring Hayden Fry. [10] Fry, a legendary coach at Iowa, had been privately battling cancer while his 1998 team had finished the season 3–8, with losses in each of their three rivalry games [11] Florida defensive coordinator and Iowa alumnus Bob Stoops ...
It is difficult to overstate Hayden Fry's positive impact on Iowa football. Fry coached twenty years at Iowa, more than twice as long as any coach before him. Hayden had a 143–89–6 record at Iowa and led the Hawkeyes to three Big Ten titles, three Rose Bowl appearances, and 14 bowl games. But more than that, Coach Hayden Fry established a ...
Fry coached at Iowa for 20 seasons and turned a struggling program into a consistent winner while also spawning an impressive coaching tree.
Debt on Iowa's new football stadium – Iowa Stadium – grew yearly, and the Hawkeyes finished in the bottom three of the Big Ten every year except 1933 from 1930 to 1938. Then, in 1939, Iowa surprisingly finished the season 6–1–1, tripling the win total from the last two seasons combined.
Nov. 18—Iowa. Get to know. the Hawkeyes. Gary Dolphin, the voice of Iowa. football and men's basketball since 1997, gives us the scoop on what to expect before Illinois and Iowa play today:
In 1979, Hayden Fry helped to create the Tiger Hawk, the logo seen on Iowa's football helmets. [20] Since both teams shared the colors of black and yellow gold, Fry sought and gained permission from the Pittsburgh Steelers , the dominant National Football League (NFL) team of the 1970s, to overhaul Iowa's uniforms in the Steelers' image.