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2 A Iowa City Press-Citizen Thursday, September 15, 1977 Game resumes rivalry going back to 1894 4' I "ft rf J'? 1 ASW h3 ITJPV a 'i ft Long ago In Hawkeye football annals, 'that sister institution to the west was always called "Ames" through the many early -years, rather than Iowa State College, or Iowa State University. And it was "Ames" that first showed up, to 1894. Football chronicles show that Iowa's first season of football was in 1889 when Iowa played, and lost to, Grinnell College 24-0. Iowa State's first football game was not played until 1892, when Iowa State played a 6-6 tie with State Center (presumably the town of) and beat the Des Moines YMCA 30-0. "Ames" first appeared on Iowa's schedule, in Iowa City, in 1894, and the Hawkeyes were upset 16-8.

Oddly, Burt German, who had been Iowa's top offensive player in 1891, had transferred to Ames and was both coach and captain of the Iowa State team. He scored eight points for Ames that day and went on to become an important influence in the growth of early football and the entire athletic program at Iowa State. Iowa hosted Ames again the next season and lost 24-0. In fact, the team didn't score in five of seven games it played under a "voluntary coach" following a pre-season edict of the AUJetic Advisory Committee that "the football team will not be recognized until the finances of the team have been put upon a satisfactory basis." The teams didn't play in 1896, but did in 1897 and therein came an incident The final score was 27-7, but the kind of tight, defensive line play expected Saturday marked the last time Iowa and Iowa State played in Iowa City, Nov. 4, 1933.

In contrast to this year, there were plenty of empty seats then. V.A.v.--:. Iowa-Iowa State record earlier, Williams had become Iowa's first all-Big Ten player in the university's first year in that conference. Williams was placed on the All-American team by football's foremost authority of the day, Walter Camp, and was the first player west of the Mississippi to be accorded such recognition. Williams later became a coach and athletic administrator at score.

According to C.E. Harris in the Iowa State Register: "Quite the worst thing of the entire season was the use Iowa made of an ear-splitting steam whistle during the game. This contrivance, situated at the south end of the grandstand, seriously interfered with the visitors' signals. So far as I can recall the home team was never greatly handicapped in this 20, Iowa State 7 45, Iowa State 7 26, Iowa State 6 State 16, Iowa 6 19, Iowa State 16 6, Iowa State 3 21, Iowa State 0 10, Iowa State 0 14, Iowa State It) 27, Iowa State 7 State 31, Iowa 6 1912 Iowa 1913 Iowa 1914 Iowa 1915 Iowa 1916 Iowa 1917 'Iowa 1918 Iowa 1919 Iowa 1920 Iowa 1933 Iowa 1934 Iowa Series total: For the record: 1894 Iowa State 16, Iowa 8 1895 Iowa State 24, Iowa 0 1897 Iowa State 6, Iowa 0 1899 Iowa 5, Iowa State 0 1901 Iowa 12, Iowa State 0 1902 Iowa 12, Iowa State 6 1904 Iowa 10, Iowa State 6 1905 Iowa 8, Iowa State 0 1906 Iowa State 2, Iowa 0 1907 Iowa State 20, Iowa 14 1909 Iowa 16, Iowa State 0 1910 Iowa 2, Iowa State 0 1911 Iowa State 9, Iowa 0 E8L27-7 WOTAUJPSA Iowa 16 wins Iowa State 8 wins 1902 and 1903 and then was playing his fourth year at Ames in 1907. As a result of this, on Jan.

10, 1908, the board in control of athletics met and severed all athletic relationships with "the Iowa Agricultural College." "Severance" didn't last long, however, for the Cyclones played in Iowa City again in 1909 and. Iowa scored a 16-0 triumph over the heavily-favored Iowa State team befo're a record crowd of 5,500. The Hawkeyes made 35 first downs to four by Ames. Iowa won 2-0 over Ames in 1910 and the Iowa City paper started its story like this: "The long suffering farmers got it in the same old place today, Iowa defeating Ames by a score of 2-0." Iowa State beat Iowa in 1911 in Iowa City 9-0 before a record crowd of 8,000 fans, to make the series standings close at 7-6 in favor of Iowa. Hawkeye string Hawkeye elevens beat Iowa State 20-7 in 1912, 45-7 in 1913 and 26-6 in 1914 before the Cyclones retaliated with a 16-0 win in Iowa City in 1915.

More than 11,000 fans watched the 1915 game and the gate receipts were more than 112,000. Howard Jones arrived as coach at Iowa in 1916 and none of his teams ever lost to Iowa State. His first team went to Ames as a solid underdog against a team which had not given up a touch- football record book: ST. MARY'S MIPS FOfflSH, 13 TO 6 "There may never have been a more astonishing upset on the Iowa record. Iowa State not only won but smashed ut iir tub iiicu.u tirv srwua or ivuut in wa niTV PRi7.ss.niTi znxnFOOTBALl the Hawkeyes, 31-fi.

The crowd, reportedly 18,000, was far from record size but it was the largest ever to watch mmuiti rnat-4taMt Km 0Um knej tb World EXTRA! CYCLONETEAM 8.0M Cfcrcr Innil a game in Ames. It witnessed an un Iowa wins tot t'UMir InrM Hum 4 WW hn hu i CtcImm believable reversal. Tommy Neal, a 155-pound halfback whose home was in Jones in 1921 and 1922 beat Iowa State 14-10 in the season finale, although Iowa State gave the Hawkeyes a surprisingly strong tussle, led by its Ail-American lineman, Polly Wallace. That was to be the last Iowa-Iowa State football game for 13 years because of a recommendation made to the State Board of Education following a survey of the institutions made in 1915-16 under the direction of the U.S. Commissioner of Education and known as the Claxton Report.

It said in "The annual football game between the college and the university is the occasion of the revival of feuds, charges and counter-charges, the reassertion of differences and criticisms which at best NOTRE DAME UNDER 7-0 Sioux City, scored three Cyclone touch downs. Simmons scored none for Iowa. Fred Poole punted a dozen times for Iowa State for the sensational average of 54.5 yards. "The shock of the loss was great. There was no effort to minimize the great achievement of the Cyclones.

manner. Even more disgusting was the continual exhibition of this noise-making device whenever the loyal rooters of Ames sought to encourage their team by good, wholesome, cheering." Iowa played at Ames for the first time in 1905 and won 8-0 for its fifth straight win over Iowa State, but the Cyclones evened up the series at 5-5 in Iowa City the next year with a 2-0 win in what must have been one of the dullest games of all time. The teams made only three first downs between them while punting 45 times. 01 or the liADmo cm nr. rc- vns i IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEX N0TMU.

Fnt.ri.liim.iil f0f Mwbtf of In '1, EXTRA! cm. ti tni. mt UTABMSHCD ItW that started a trend of strained relations between the two schools and their followers. Iowa led 10-6 late in the game when Parker of Ames raced 40 yards to score. The Hawkeyes claimed that Johnny Griffith had been deliberately fouled, enabling Parker to score his touchdown.

But when the official refused to allow Iowa's protest, explaining he had not seen the infraction, the Hawkeyes left the held, forfeiting to Iowa State 6-0, and that's the way the record book still carries the score. Perhaps because of that fuss, the teams didn't play in 1898, but they did play again in Iowa City in 1899 and a crowd of 2,000, said to be the largest to see a game in Iowa City up to that time, saw Iowa win 5-0 for its first win ever over Iowa State. The teams were to have played in Ames for the first time in 1900, but the game was cancelled because of an outbreak of typhoid fever on the Ames campus. Iowa beat Iowa State 12-0 in 1901 in Iowa City, knocking ISU from the ranks of the unbeaten. One of the stars of the game was Hawkeye captain and quarterback Clyde Williams.

A year Iowa State, and Clyde Williams Field at Ames, Iowa State's football field until the new stadium was built, was named in his honor. It's interesting to note, incidentally, that Iowa's football profit from the 1901 season was $1,431.28. In 1902 Iowa rallied to beat the Ames eleven 12-6 after Iowa State's coach had announced, on the even of the game: "We are going to win. We are giving it to you straight. We are sure of it.

We will not lose to Iowa." Statewide interest The teams did not play in 1903, but did in 1904 and according to one chronicle: "The Iowa State battle captured more statewide interest than any, both before and after the game was played. An overflow mass meeting was held in Iowa City on Thursday preceding the clash. President MacLean gave a stirring charge to the varsity, and this was followed by a snake dance through downtown streets." Iowa won the game 104 and students staged a wild demonstration through the night, according to reports. However, Iowa State found a sour note in the game other than the final CYCLOIIS SMASH HAWKEYES, 31-6 MINNESOTA DEFEATS PITT, 13 TOT Controversy1. and loses Iowa Play by Play OHIO DEFEATS FIGHTING AMES TEAM TURNS COLGATE.

10-7 IOWA FUMBLES INTO PAIR OF lr TOUCHDOWNS IN FIRST HALF Controversy arose again in 1907 when Iowa State won 20-14 at Ames. "No game caused more statewide controversy and eventual repercussions than the bitter 1907 struggle between Iowa and Iowa State," says an article in "75 Years With the Fighting Hawkeyes." For one thing, Iowa star Chick Kirk was tackled and seriously injured after he had singled for a fair catch on a punt. For another, it was learned sometime after the game that Iowa State fullback Tod Willetts had played at Grinnell in down. Said to be "the most important single battle on the Hawkeye schedule," the game went to Iowa 19-16 before a crowd of 15,000. It was 6-3 in favor of Iowa in 1917 on the strength of two field goals by Waddy Davis, 21-0 for the Hawkeyes in 1918 and 10-0 in 1919 with Aubrey Devine as the Iowa star.

Iowa's team of 1920, building toward a pair of unbeaten teams of national championship stature under ICWA TATE I WA rili Credit Their play was appraised as vastly superior to Iowa's. The inevitable, suggestion of dissension within the Hawkeye ranks followed rumors that grew in volume a week later when soon to be national champion Minnesota smothered Iowa 48-12 So that was the end of the Iowa-Iowa State football series until 1977. Newspaper accounts both before and immediately after the 1934 game say both institutions hoped for additional games with each other as soon as' possible, but neither team had matching open dates in 1935 or 1936, but Indications were that the series would be resumed soon. However, after surveying the damage produced by the rivalry and the celebrants in the 1934 game, then President Raymond M. Hughes of Iowa State was quoted as saying there would never be another football game between the institutions during his presidency.

Nor was there. Nor has there been since. But Sept. 17, 1977, is a new day, and a new season and the rekindling of an old rivalry. have had only poor reasons for existence.

i "For these reasons, the commission recommends that intercollegiate football games at least, and perhaps baseball games also, between the two Institutions under discussion should be completely suspended for a period of five or six years Beginning, and end Perhaps the fact that Iowa was suspended from the Big Ten briefly in 1930 and had trouble finding opponents for a few years led to a brief resumption of the series for a two-year period in 1933-34. It was on Dec. 8, 1932, that the two schools announced Jointly that Iowa and Iowa State would play football at Iowa City on Nov. 4, 1933. The Hawkeyes, led by Dick Crayne, Joe Laws and Francis (Zud) Schammel, won the game 27-7, giving Iowa a lead of 16-7 in the series.

Iowa, with a slithering sophomore halfback named Ozzie Simmons in its backfield was a heavy favorite over the Cyclones the following season at Ames, but lost the ball game 31-6. Says a Historic pictures in this souvenir section of the Press-Citizen were made by the University of Iowa Photographic service from negatives in its files and those of the university's archives. Contemporary pictures are by Press-Citizen photographers John B. Ferguson and Dale Hankins. Neutral looks at Iowa-ISU game 1 1 mmi" 1 I Iff II alCE 3i "I think the last time the two schools played, the presidents of both universities said as long as they were alive, they wouldn't play again.

"To me, that's dumb. If people can get this worked up about something, it has to be good." The game, which will be played this year in Iowa's Nile Kinnick Stadium (the series will run five more years), has created some rather Interesting sidelights. Rusk, for example, grew up with Iowa State second team fullback Pat Kennedy in Dubuque. "When we played against each other as kids," he said, "I tackled him once and then I picked hlra up. He always talks about that incident.

He always tells people how I picked him up. "I saw him a couple of weeks ago and he asked me if I was going to pick him up this year. I told him I'd stomp all over him." BSJ- By GARY STEIN Gannett News Service IOWA CITY, Iowa The farm folk in this area aren't usually the type to get worked up over football games. Of course, they usually don't have the type of football game they expect to see Sept. 17.

It'll be Iowa vs. Iowa State on that day, the first time in 43 years that the two corn country schools have met on the gridiron. It may not be Ohio State-Michigan or Texas-Oklahoma, but out here, Iowa-Iowa State is becoming a lot more than just a football game. "It's the type of game," said Iowa linebacker Tom Rusk, "where, if you lose, you're gonna have to walk the alleys because you won't want to face people. If you win, you can walk proud." "This game should satisfy a whole lot Editor's note: The writer is with the Rockford, Morning Star, a member of the Gannett group of newspaper and filed the following story while making the Big Ten Skywriters tour In August.) of people," linebacker Dean Moore said.

"Somebody took a survey," Hawkeye coach Bob Commlngs added, "and something like 280,000 people were interested in having tickets for the game." The game, in short, is the wildest thing to hit here in quite awhile. Although most people around here cant remember the last Iowa-Iowa State game (Iowa State won, 314), in 1934, the bumper sticker and T-shirt salesmen have done a booming business. "It's been crazy around here," Commlngs said. "Our legislators are fighting about the thing. i DAD DAY ncvFMfiER 1, mi The last two times Program covers from the last two Iowa of the rivalry, and an amity that has not Iowa State games portray the family nature always prevailed.

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