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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 9/9/1979 IOWA CITY - Iowa's football team, which hasn't enjoyed a winning season in 18 years, was beaten by too much success Saturday at Kinnick Stadium. While ushering in Hayden Fry's coaching era, the Hawks built a 26-3 halftime lead, but couldn't cope with success and lost to Indiana 30-26. "I was concerned about how our players would handle success for a full 60 minutes, because these guys have never experienced it before," Fry said. What the Hawks did experience was Indiana's ...

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IOWA CITY - Members of the Turnover family, usually loyal allies of the Iowa football team, committed treason Saturday, and the Hawkeyes' pass defense went AWOL.As a result, Minnesota ruined Iowa's homecoming with a 24-7 win before 60,050 at Kinnick Stadium.The Hawks, who were leading the nation in takeaways with 16 fumble recoveries and 10 pass interceptions, had four turnovers to only one by Minnesota.Those mistakes helped nullify the Hawks' 20 first downs (four more than Minnesota) and 334 total ...

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(Published 10/28/1979) MADISON, WIS. - So what's Dennis Mosley going to do with the game ball presented to him Saturday for sending Iowa football records flying like autumn leaves? "I'm going to get my offensive linemen to sign the ball," the speedy Hawkeye said, "and then I'm going to put it somewhere so I can look at it later in life." Coach Hayden Fry seemed more elated even than his senior running back as he pointed out this is the first time in ...

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(Published 11/4/1979) IOWA CITY - The folks who produced "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" are getting to be angry at Iowa's football team. After all, by losing to Purdue 20-14 Saturday, the Hawkeyes took clear title to what could have been a dandy movie sequel: "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind." A Kinnick Stadium crowd of 59,940 watched Saturday as Iowa had its close encounter of the fourth kind against nationally-ranked and/or bowl-bidding teams. On previous Saturdays, the Hawks had lost to Indiana ...

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Smiling like a cat with canary feathers sticking out of his mouth, Iowa Coach Hayden Fry winked at reporters waiting for his postgame press conference Saturday. "Sorry to be late," he apologized, "but I've been tied up with bowl committees." Fry was kidding, of course, but a postseason bowl game was one of the few things his first Hawkeye football team missed after wrapping up a 5-6 season with an impressive 33-23 victory over Michigan State. A few of the 58,320 spectators ...

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(Published 11/11/1979) COLUMBUS, OHIO - Ridiculous! That's the way Iowa Coach Hayden Fry described the way his offense gave away five fumbles and five interceptions Saturday in a monumental 34-7 self-destruction that hurried Ohio State on its 10-0 path to clinching at least a tie for the Big Ten championship and a probable Rose Bowl berth. Magnificent! That's the way Fry described his defense, which somehow limited the No. 3 rated Buckeyes to four touchdowns and two field goals after the offense squandered the ...

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(Published 10/12/1980) IOWA CITY - The time bomb finally went off Saturday. But the explosion wasn't big enough. Iowa Coach Hayden Fry, who is fond of referring to his young football team as "a time bomb ready to go off," watched his team's offense come to life in the second half Saturday against Illinois at Kinnick Stadium, piling up 204 yards and 14 points after halftime. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough as the Hawkeyes lost their fourth straight game, 20-14, to the Fighting Illini. The ...

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(Published 10/7/1979) CHAMPAIGN, ILL. - Iowa Coach Hayden Fry, obviously a man who appreciates classic short stories, called it "an O. Henry finish." Illinois quarterback Lawrence McCullough, frustrated and heartbroken, called it "awfully good defense" when the Hawkeyes stopped him a yard short of the winning touchdown as the game ended. The homecoming crowd of 51,044 called it a might even and exciting game as Iowa escaped with a 13-7 victory here Saturday. Those with long memories called the finish a near replay of ...

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(Published 9/14/1980) BLOOMINGTON, IND. - It took more than a half for slender, 160-pound Jeff Brown to get going, but he finally put it all together to indicate he may be a successful replacement for graduated Dennis Mosley. Brown managed only 33 yards on 13 carries in the first half, although the Hawkeyes jumped out to a 9-0 halftime lead, but he wound up with 176 net yards on 31 carries, including a sparkling 55-yard run to the Indiana four that iced ...

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(Published 9/23/1979) IOWA CITY - Iowa football coach Hayden Fry has something to say to the guy who wrote, "It's not whether you won or lost, it's how you played the game." Fry would change that to, "It's not how you played the game, it's whether you won or lost." Hayden's Hawks continued to play surprisingly well Saturday, leading Nebraska 21-7 late in the third quarter. But they still lost 24-21 on Dean Sukup's 30-yard field goal with 5:52 left. The loss before 60,055 ...

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(Published 11/16/1980) IOWA CITY - Ohio State's football players certainly impressed Hayden Fry with the way they brushed aside his Hawkeyes 41-7 en route to the annual Big Ten title showdown with Michigan next Saturday. "You were treated to watching a real fine football team out there today," the Iowa coach said after watching his Hawks get a measly 147 yards total offense against the Buckeyes, rated No. 6 nationally. "Ohio State has all the weapons to go to a bowl game and ...

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(Published 9/28/1980) IOWA CITY - It was a game that was important... with a capital I. You guessed it was important when you looked at the expression on Hayden Fry's face. And you knew it was important when you listened to Donnie Duncan talk. Duncan's Iowa State Cyclones reclaimed "the state championship" of Iowa college football Saturday afternoon with a nail-biting 10-7 victory over Iowa before a record crowd of 60,145 at Kinnick Stadium. And afterward Duncan offered a bit of insight into ...

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(Published 11/9/1980) LAFAYETTE, IND. - Iowa's Hayden Fry joined the chorus of those singing songs of praise to Purdue's Mark Herrmann as the greatest passer in college football history. Voila! It turned out Fry — and all the 68,775 present in Ross-Ade Stadium Saturday — were in the wrong place, watching the wrong passer. As superb as Herrmann was in hummin' the football in Purdue's 58-13 rout of the Hawkeyes, he once again was surpassed by the way Illinois' Dave Wilson winged it ...

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(Published 10/5/1980) IOWA CITY - If your baseball team ever has totaled more hits than the opponent but lost the game on a couple home runs, you know how Iowa's football team felt Saturday. Arizona's scoring plays were not gigantic, but a safety and Brett Weber's 37-yard field goal made it seem so as the Wildcats bewildered Iowa by the unusual score of 5-3 before 59,950 fans at Kinnick Stadium. In the end, it was the Hawkeyes' inability to come up with a ...

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(Published 9/21/1980) LINCOLN, NEB. - Unpack. That was the one-word message Saturday for Iowa football fans who had been talking about a Hawkeye postseason bowl game. Yes, Nebraska's unbelievably perfect Big Red machine threw a 57-0 monkey wrench at the Hawkeyes Saturday, and it may have dealt a severe setback to Coach Hayden Fry's rebuilding program. Nebraska's 107th consecutive sellout crowd of 76,029 could scarcely believe one college team could be that superior to another. Iowa has had only five worse defeats in 92 seasons ...

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(Published 9/30/1979) IOWA CITY - It may have been the "Shoot-out of the Tall Texans" at the Kinnick Corral here Saturday, but the deciding factors were the speeding legs of Dennis Mosley and the booming foot of Reggie Roby. Iowa also used a hard-hitting defense to restrict a crippled Iowa State team to 162 yards of total offense in a resounding 30-14 Hawkeye victory that ended — as usual — with the wild-eyed zealots of the winning team ripping down the goal ...

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(Published 11/23/1980) EAST LANSING, MICH. - Someone who shared in the preseason optimism surrounding the Iowa football program and then missed the first 10 games might have thought he was watching a team on its way to the Rose Bowl. The Iowa Hawkeyes, displaying a defense that was nothing short of awesome and an offense that was something more than efficient, rolled to a startlingly simple 41-0 rout of Michigan State before a crowd of 55,123 in the season finale for both ...

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(Published 10/14/1979) EVANSTON, ILL. - Iowa became a homecoming-wrecker for the second straight Saturday by staging a "Mo and Bo Show." The 58-6 whipping administered to Northwestern was so bad that even Ted Giannoulas, the San Diego Chicken hired to draw fans with his cavortings, couldn't have been blamed for thinking "How do I get out of this chicken outfit?" The Wildcat fans among the 27,224 weren't the only ones bitter at the disaster. Rick Venturi, whose young Northwestern team has won only one ...

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(Published 9/16/1979) NORMAN, OKLA. - Iowa football coach Hayden Fry wasn't exactly pleased Saturday when an Iowa sportswriter said, "Your team played a good game today." "I just told my football team that that's what's wrong with our ballclub," said Fry. "We get our --- kicked and get complimented. If I see one guy with a smile on his face I'm gonna bust him right in the mouth." Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer wasn't much happier, even though his third-ranked Sooners beat Iowa 21-6 ...

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(Published 11/2/1980) IOWA CITY - You probably could have called it a "tailor-made" victory. Tailor-made to revive confidence in a struggling team. Tailor-made to keep alive Iowa's chances for a long-awaited winning season. And tailor-made to bring back smiles to the faces of a few Hawkeye football fans, not to mention Iowa Coach Hayden Fry. Fry's football team — a loser in four of its previous five games — patched together an offensive line, did a few alterations on its offensive plan, let out a ...

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(Published 10/26/1980) MINNEAPOLIS - Iowa's final, frustrating football farewell in Minnesota's 56-year-old Memorial Stadium was such a morale-shattering blow that the Hawkeyes didn't bother leaving the field in their familiar "bee swarm" formation. The Gophers' 24-6 margin may not sound that devastating, but Coach Hayden Fry admitted he had never directed a team that wasted as many opportunities as Iowa did in the first half. "We just didn't run and block hard," Fry said "and Minnesota whipped us up front. Yes, they defeated ...

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(Published 10/19/1980) IOWA CITY - It wasn't a masterpiece, Coach Hayden Fry admitted, and the time bomb that had been ticking in Iowa's football arsenal all season made only a modest explosion against a foe that has lost 16 straight games. Indeed, the Hawkeyes reaped only two points in the second half, but their 25-3 victory over a feckless Northwestern team did allow 59,990 homecoming fans to breathe a sigh of relief because a four-game losing streak was broken. A few zealots were ...

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(Published 10/18/1981) ANN ARBOR, MICH. - Before the current college football season began, many Iowa fans no doubt hoped their team would have a winning season. But, those fans really underestimated "Hayden's Heroes." Make no mistake about it, the Iowa Hawkeyes have arrive... not just as a team with a winning record, but as a full-blown powerhouse in the world of Big Ten football. Any last doubters were almost certainly swayed Saturday as Coach Hayden Fry's Hawks recorded perhaps their biggest victory in the ...

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(Published 10/30/1983) IOWA CITY - So, who needs Duane Gunn? Indiana's Hoosiers may have the "fastest Gunn in the west" at wide receiver, but Iowa's Hawkeyes have the slickest in Dave Moritz. Moritz, who could probably catch a pass in his sleep, put Indiana's Hoosiers to bed Saturday in a 49-3 rout at Kinnick Stadium. A frustrated basketball player at St. Rita High School in Chicago, Moritz etched his name in University of Iowa football lore by catching 11 passes for a school record ...

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(Published 10/9/1983) IOWA CITY - Northwestern's hapless Wildcats perhaps weren't the only ones hit by "catastrophe" in Iowa's 61-21 homecoming romp Saturday. Certainly the record book took a thrashing as the Hawkeyes rolled up an all-time Big Ten record of 713 yards in total offense and kicker Tommy Nichol became the highest scorer in the school's history. The health of Iowa's team also suffered. Coach Hayden Fry set his jaw grimly and was shaking his head with worry about injuries, particularly to his ...

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