![]() ![]() The Titans of Detroit, meanwhile, were flying high, having shared the national title with a 9-0 campaign in 1928, followed it with a 7-1-1 mark in 1929, and entered the November 1 contest with Iowa at 4-0, having outscored opponents 180-6. Following a win over Bradley, the Old Gold’s passing attack sputtered in losses to Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State) and Centenary before being thoroughly whupped in a showdown with a B-team from Purdue. When the penny dropped in 1929 and the Big Ten sanctioned the Hawkeyes, Iowa needed to fill its schedule with a range of teams from outside the conference. Perhaps Kirk Ferentz’s scheduling is just making up for lost time. For three straight years, Iowa played two Big Ten games at home and three on the road. And, fueling the Hawkeyes’ grievances with the conference-they believed they had been unfairly singled out-not enough of those games were at home. Head coach Burt Ingwersen won games, but not enough of those wins were in the Big Ten: over his time in Iowa City, Ingwersen went 33-27-4, but just 11-16-1 in Big Ten play. Things were looking up.īut the results didn’t match the efforts. The school finished then-Iowa Stadium (now Kinnick) in 1929. Iowa City banks and alumni-as was practice across the conference-offered no-show jobs and easy loans to Hawkeye athletes. Gilbert Haugen couldn’t come up with the cash in Congress, but university president Walter Jessup sure could. Iowa had languished throughout the 1920s: irrespective of the field, football or farm, they just didn’t have the influx of cash they needed. “Iowa Comes From Behind to Beat University of Detroit, 7 to 3,” Detroit Free Press, November 2, 1930, accessed on Found by the Big Ten to be in possession of a $4,000 slush fund for recruiting athletes, Iowa had been sanctioned by the conference in 1930, meaning they would only play one single Big Ten game that fall, a 20-0 home loss to Purdue the Boilermakers agreed to as “a friendly gesture toward Iowa in its effort to rejoin the conference.” That Iowa was playing Detroit-now Detroit Mercy, home of the Titans, lacking any football team since 1964-was, itself, a historical accident. University of Iowa Libraries, University Archives. The Daily Iowan (online), November 2, 1930. “Fighting in the face of a defeat wished upon them by football authorities and dopesters all over the country, these Hawkeye chargers came through for a 7 to 3 win.” ![]() “Superior weight, and there was plenty of it, played an important role in this battle, for it plainly told on the much lighter” opponents. “To Iowa’s line goes as much credit as you can give them.” Two hundred and forty-seven yards gained from scrimmage, only 134 allowed. Instead of bounding over the goal line the ball bounced straight into the air and stopped just short of the line.” “As far as the breaks of the game were concerned only one real one developed.when punted 40 yards to 1-yard line. “Iowa displayed throughout the contest the ponderous power which has marked its previous exhibitions but incomplete passes at crucial moments prevented the Hawkeyes from offering a serious scoring threat.”įorcing the opponent to punt ten times and allowing them to complete just eight passes.
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