You are looking at a. 1960’s Vintage University of Iowa Hawkeyes Football Bobblehead Nodder. These bobbleheads are as RARE as they come and aren’t available for sale very often. It wasn’t in as good of shape as this one is. The Bobblehead is about 7 inches tall. Overall it is in really good shape. It has a green Japan sticker on the bottom, which most others I have seen have lost that. It has a date of 1962 on it so I guess that would be the date it was manufactured. If you have any questions regarding this Bobblehead, please ask. Thanks and Good Luck! From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2015 Iowa Hawkeyes football team. NCAA Division I (FBS). West Division (Since 2014) Legends Division (2011-13). (18891891; 18971899) Western Interstate University Football Association. (18921896) Missouri Valley Conference. 13 (11 Big Ten, 1 MVC, 1 WIUFA). The Iowa Hawkeyes football team is the college football. Team representing the University of Iowa. In Iowa City, Iowa. The team is currently coached by Kirk Ferentz. Who has begun his 17th season as the head coach and is also tied for the second longest current tenured coach in the NCAA Division I FBS he is tied with Bob Stoops. At the University of Oklahoma. The Hawkeyes compete in the West Division of the Big Ten Conference. They have been a member of the Big Ten Conference since 1900, and are currently a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Member of the NCAA. The Hawkeyes play their home games at Kinnick Stadium. With a capacity of 70,585. Appearances in the final Associated Press Poll. 1953 #20 Iowa vs #9 Notre Dame. 1960 #1 Iowa at #3 Minnesota. 1981 #7 Nebraska vs Iowa. 1985 #2 Michigan vs #1 Iowa. 2003 #15 Miami (OH) vs #12 Iowa. 2005 Capital One Bowl Iowa vs. 2008 #3 Penn State vs. Current Iowa Hawkeyes football team. Iowa and the NFL. Pro Hall of Fame. Main article: History of Iowa Hawkeyes football. Football was first played as a club sport at Iowa in 1872, with intramural games against other colleges played as early as 1882, but it was not until 1889 that the University of Iowa. First officially recognized a varsity football team. In 1899, Iowa completed its first undefeated football season, which led to an invitation to join the Western Conference, now known as the Big Ten Conference. In 1900, the Hawkeyes secured another undefeated season and won a share of the Western Conference title in their first year in the league. In 1907 Iowa helped form the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. They participated in football in the league, while still holding membership in the Big Ten Conference. Iowa would tie with Nebraska in 1907 for the league championship. They would leave the conference after the 1910 football season. Iowa claimed consecutive Big Ten titles in 1921. The Hawkeyes won 20 straight games in the early 1920s under the guidance of Hall of Fame. Jones soon left Iowa and established a powerhouse at Southern California. And the Hawkeyes were abysmal for most of the 1930s. As a result, little was expected of Iowas 1939 team, led by new coach Eddie Anderson. Nicknamed the Ironmen, the 1939 Hawkeyes. Scored several upset victories and vaulted into the national rankings. Though Iowa fell a game short of the Big Ten title, team MVP Nile Kinnick. Won almost every major national award, including the 1939 Heisman Trophy. Was hired as Iowas head coach in 1952. He lured Calvin Jones. To Iowa, where Jones became the first Hawkeye and the first African-American to win the Outland Trophy. From 1956 to 1960, Evashevski led Iowa to four finishes in the top five of the national rankings, three Big Ten Conference titles, two Rose Bowl victories, and the 1958 FWAA. After the 1960 season, Evashevski left coaching to become Iowas athletic director. The result was nineteen consecutive non-winning seasons for the Hawkeyes from 1962 to 1980. Four head coaches after Evashevski were hired and left without success. Hall of Fame coach Hayden Fry. Was hired after the 1978 season to try to reverse Iowas fortunes. After decades of losing, Fry revived the Iowa program. In 20 years at Iowa, he led the Hawks to 14 bowl games, three Big Ten titles, and three Rose Bowl appearances. Fry retired in 1998, turning the program over to former assistant Kirk Ferentz. Ferentz led Iowa to three consecutive top ten finishes from 2002 to 2004 and two Big Ten titles. The Hawkeyes have played in eight bowl games in the past nine seasons and in 22 bowl games over the last 29 seasons. Iowa has cracked the top 25 at the end of the season five times during the Kirk Ferentz era – No. 8 in 200204, No. 20 in 2008, and No. Iowa began its 122nd season of football, and its 111th season in the Big Ten, in 2010. Among the legends that Fry left behind is the iconic pink visitors locker room, as well as a statement he made the day he started as Iowa Head Coach that he would take the team to a bowl game within four years, or he would step down. He would not only succeed in his boast, by sending Iowa to the 1982 Rose Bowl. He would do it in three years, coming in one year under his statement. Iowa has had several successful coaches. Forest Evashevski won the Rose Bowl twice when he coached from 1952 through the 1960 season, when he retired. Hayden Fry came to Iowa in 1979. Kirk Ferentz coached after Hayden Fry retired after the 1998 season. In the 18 years between Evashevski and Fry, the Hawkeyes went without a single winning season. After Evashevski retired, Jerry Burns. Coached from 1961 though 1965. He had a 16-27-2 record. Followed, coaching from 1971 -1973 with a 4-28-1 record, with a 0-11 record in 1973. His record was 18 wins and 37 losses. Main article: Iowa Hawkeyes football series records. This is the Hawkeyes football record against current Big Ten Conference. Opponents, since joining in 1900. This list takes into effect games against current Big Ten teams before they were members of the Big Ten. The University of Chicago. Iowa finished the 1958 regular season ranked #2 in the AP and Coaches Polls, behind 110 Louisiana State. Although both votes were taken before the bowl games. Iowa convincingly won the 1959 Rose Bowl, 3812, setting or tying six Rose Bowl records. The Football Writers Association of America. Gave their national championship trophy, the Grantland Rice Trophy. Football Writers Association of America. Iowa has won 13 major conference championships in school history. Iowa was a member of the Western Interstate University Football Association. Prior to joining the Western Conference, now known as the Big Ten Conference. Iowa was also a member of the Missouri Valley Conference. Iowa currently claims 11 Big Ten Conference championships. Won Capital One Bowl. 11-time Big Ten Champions. Iowa was a member of the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Iowa has made 298 appearances in the Associated Press poll. Over 37 seasons, including 115 weeks in the top 10. Iowa has finished the year ranked in the final Associated Press poll of the season 21 times. Main article: 1960 Iowa Hawkeyes football team. In 1960 the Hawkeyes held on to the #1 ranking for much of the season. The Hawkeyes defeated #8 Ohio State. Iowa lost to rival #3 Minnesota. The game was the only loss of the year for the 1960 Hawkeyes. And they shared the Big Ten title with Minnesota. However, at that time, the Big Ten did not allow their teams to go to any bowl except for the Rose Bowl. As such, Minnesota was picked over Iowa to go to Pasadena and Iowa was left out, despite a #2 ranking in the Coaches’ Poll. And a #3 ranking in the AP. Minnesota went on to win the National Championship. This season is known as the “Forgotten Season”, for despite ending the season with a #2/3 ranking and a share of the Big Ten title, the Hawks were left out of January play. Main article: List of Iowa Hawkeyes football seasons. The Hawkeyes began playing football as a club sport in 1872, and began playing intramural. Games against other colleges in 1882, but it was not until 1889 when Iowa. To an interscholastic varsity football game. Since then, the Hawkeyes have played over 1,100 games, including 27 bowl games. Main article: List of Iowa Hawkeyes head football coaches. Iowa has appeared in 28 bowl games, including 26 bowl games since 1982. In bowl games, Iowa has a 14131 record. 21, 1953 undefeated and #1 Notre Dame. Were set to face the Hawkeyes in South Bend. The score was 0-0 when, in the first quarter, Iowa defensive back Dusty Rice intercepted the Irish. The Hawkeyes drove the ball 72-yards for an Iowa touchdown and a 7-0 lead. With only 2 seconds left in the first half, Irish tackle Frank Varrichione. Fell down with an injury. This stopped the clock (Notre Dame had no time outs left). Varrichione went in that same play and the Irish scored on a touchdown pass to Dan Shannon, to tie the game 7-7 at the half. With the score still deadlocked late into the fourth quarter, Iowa intercepted a pass on their own 48-yard line. The Hawkeyes then scored on a touchdown pass to end Frank Gilliam. To give the Hawkeyes a 14-7 lead with 2:06 left in the game, with Notre Dame having no time outs remaining. With only 6 seconds left and the clock ticking away Frank Varrichione came down with another injury which stopped the clock (again he went back in that very same play). Notre Dame then scored a touchdown to tie the game up and stay unbeaten. After the game, sportswriters such as Grantland Rice. And others were infuriated calling it unfair, and the Irish earned the label: “The Fainting Irish of Notre Dame”. Iowa head coach Forest Evashevski said after the game: “When the One Great Scorer comes to write against our name, He won’t write whether we won or lost, but how come we got gypped at Notre Dame”. The Hawkeyes, who were ranked #20 before the game, jumped teams with better records to gain the #9 ranking. Varrichione has since admitted that the injuries were fake, in Steve Delsohns book, TALKING IRISH. In addition, Notre Dame Heisman winner Johnny Lattner. Praised his team’s tactics calling it Pretty smart thinking, wasn’t it? Because of this game, the NCAA changed the rules making players sit out at least one down before returning to the game. Main article: 1959 Rose Bowl. With the conclusion of this game, Iowa won its first, and only, National Championship. The game was lopsided and by the end of the third quarter, with a 22-6 advantage over the California Golden Bears. Iowa could smell victory. The championship, however, is disputed. The AP, whose poll came out before the bowl games, had picked LSU. As their National Champion. In addition, the 1958 LSU team. Refused to play teams with any African Americans. Leaving fewer and inferior available opponents. Because of these facts, many feel the Iowa Hawkeyes rightfully own the 1958 National Championship. The battle for Floyd of Rosedale. Between the Big Ten’s two 6-0-0 teams, Iowa against Minnesota, took place in Minneapolis, The top-ranked Hawkeyes lost to #3 Minnesota. With both the AP and UPI finishing their voting before the bowl games, the national championship ultimately was determined in December. The AP writers divided among Minnesota (8-1-0), Mississippi (9-0-1) and Iowa (8-1-0), and some voters split their choices. As such, the Minnesota Gophers received 17½ votes for #1, Mississippi got 16, and Iowa 12½. Minnesota had 433½ poll points, ahead of 411 for Ole Miss and 407½ for Iowa. Minnesota was also the #1 choice in the UPI coaches poll. Minnesota was awarded the berth in the 1961 Rose Bowl. Main article: 1981 Iowa Hawkeyes football team. Official recapThere weren’t many among the 60,160 who jammed Iowa’s Kinnick Stadium who thought they were watching a matchup of the eventual Midwest entries in the Rose and Orange Bowls. There probably weren’t a whole lot more who thought Iowa would avenge a 57-0 slaughter the Hawkeyes had suffered in Lincoln the year before. However, Iowa took advantage of excellent field position to jump to a 10-0 first-half lead, then held on to win a 10-7 stunner over the seventh-ranked Huskers. The Hawkeye defense held the Huskers to their lowest total offense output of the season 234 yards and stopped the Nebraska offense three straight times in Iowa territory after Roger Craig’s one-yard TD had pulled the Huskers within 10-7 early in the final period. NU was stymied in the fourth quarter by a missed 30-yard field goal, a fumble, and Lou King’s diving interception, which secured Iowa’s victory with 39 seconds remaining. In the first half, the Hawkeyes capitalized on a short punt and an interception to set up a two-yard TD run by Eddie Phillips and a 35-yard field goal by Lon Olejniczak. Meanwhile, the Huskers were held scoreless through three quarters for the first time since 1973 and didn’t get out of their own territory until late in the second period, partly because of Iowa punter Reggie Roby’s 50-plus yard average. NU quarterbacks Mark Maurer and Nate Mason completed only 8-of-18 passes for 81 yards and rushed 12 times for minus-2 yards. Iowa used its upset win as a launching pad to defeat such teams as UCLA, Michigan and Purdue and post its first winning season since 1961. At this minute, this is the greatest victory of my life, Iowa coach Hayden Fry said. Im getting to be an old man and I dont want to hurt any of my other teams that pulled off some upsets. But while Ive been at Iowa, this is far and away the greatest victory. If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn. Dont think we didnt earn this one, either. We did it fair and square, plus we showed a lot of character. Main article: 1985 Iowa Hawkeyes football team. The Hawkeyes trailed 10-9 late in the fourth quarter, in what may be considered the greatest game ever played at Kinnick Stadium. Iowa got the ball, with 5:27 left, on their own 22-yard line. Led by their All-American Quarterback, Chuck Long. Iowa drove the ball to the Michigan. As the clock expired, kicker Rob Houghtlin. Sent one through the uprights, to give Iowa the win. The Hawkeyes would go on to accept an invitation to the 1986 Rose Bowl. Main article: 2003 Iowa Hawkeyes football team. Were led by their Heisman Trophy. Hopeful, and future two time Super Bowl Champion, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. The Hawkeyes defeated the Redhawks, 21-3. However, the game is significant in that the Hawkeyes held Roethlisberger to no touchdown passes. In addition, the Hawkeyes, intercepted this future NFL great a total of 4 times. The RedHawks went unbeaten after the loss to Iowa. However, that loss kept them out of a BCS. Bowl Game and Roethlisberger out of Heisman contention. Main article: 2005 Capital One Bowl. The game has gone down in Hawkeye history known simply as “The Catch”. Iowa was set to play the defending National Champion LSU Tigers. Despite leading the entire game, Iowa found itself down 24-25 and got the ball with only 46 seconds left on the clock. With only a few seconds left in the game, Iowa found itself on their own 44-yard line facing a 2nd and 6. Iowa Quarterback Drew Tate. Threw the ball 56 yards to Warren Holloway for an Iowa touchdown that gave the Hawkeyes a 30-25 victory over Nick Saban. S defending champion Tigers. The touchdown was Holloway’s first and only career touchdown. Main article: 2008 Iowa Hawkeyes football team. The undefeated Penn State Nittany Lions. Came into the game ranked #3 in the country with hopes of a BCS national championship. The Hawkeyes, on the other hand, were 5-4 and coming off a tough loss at Illinois. The Hawkeyes jumped out to an early lead following a Penn State fumble on their first drive, but the Nittany Lions would come back to take a 13-7 lead into halftime. With less than four minutes left in the game, and trailing 23-21, Iowa strong safety Tyler Sash. Intercepted Penn State quarterback Daryll Clark. S pass inside Iowa territory. The Hawkeyes drove to within field goal range where kicker Daniel Murray made a 31-yard field goal with :01 left to play. Iowa would go on to win 24-23 and hand Penn State it’s only regular season loss of the year. The Hawkeyes would go on to beat South Carolina. In the Outback Bowl. The win would be the first in a 13-game winning streak for Iowa stretching into the 2009 season. Main article: List of Iowa Hawkeyes football honorees. Iowa Hawkeyes retired numbers. Over the course of the team’s history, individual Hawkeye players of exceptional ability have received many accolades. Iowa has had several players inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. College Football Hall of Fame. Canadian Football Hall of Fame. And Iowa Sports Hall of Fame. Individual Hawkeyes have won many prestigious national awards, including the Outland Trophy. The Davey O’Brien Award. And the Heisman Trophy. 96 Hawkeyes have been named a first-team or second-team All-American. And 22 have been named consensus first-team All-Americans. The Iowa Hawkeyes have had ten players win the Big Ten Most Valuable Player Award. And 226 Hawks have earned All-Big Ten recognition. Iowa has had 268 NFL. Draft picks, and several former Hawkeye players have gone on to become NFL head coaches or Division I. The only two players to have their numbers retired by the Hawkeye football program are Nile Kinnick. #24 and Cal Jones. Kinnick won the University of Iowa’s only Heisman Trophy. In 1939, while Jones was the first African-American to win the Outland Trophy. Neither Kinnick, or Jones saw the retirement of their numbers, having died long before, Kinnick’s number 24 was retired in 1972, 30 years after his death in a training accident in the Caribbean (the same year that Iowa Stadium changed its name to Kinnick Stadium), and Jones number 62 was retired in 1985, 30 years after his death in a plane crash near Hope, British Columbia, Canada. Ten Hawkeyes have finished in the top ten for the Heisman Trophy. Iowa has only one winner, four have come in second. Main article: 2015 Iowa Hawkeyes football team. Offensive Coordinator/ Quarterbacks Coach. Defensive Assistance Coach/ Recruiting Coordinator. Running Backs and Special Teams. Iowa’s home jersey black with white numerals, with gold and white stripes on the sleeves. The away jersey is white with black numerals, and gold stripes on the sleeves. Player’s names are located above the numerals on the back of the jersey. Gold pants with a black stripe are worn with both the home and away jersey. Iowa’s helmets are black with a black facemask. They also have a gold stripe and the gold Iowa Hawkeye’s logo included on both sides of the helmet. In 1979, Hayden Fry. Helped to create the Tiger hawk, the logo seen on Iowa’s football helmets. Since both teams shared the colors of black and gold, Fry gained permission from the Pittsburgh Steelers. The dominant NFL program of the 1970s, to overhaul Iowas uniforms in the Steelers image. Fry’s idea was that if the team were going to act like winners, they first needed to dress like winners. Fry had originally asked Steelers Defensive Tackle “Mean” Joe Greene. For a replica helmet and home jersey; Greene was able to send Fry to one of the team owners, and three days later, the owners sent Fry reproduction copies of the home and away uniform of Steeler Quarterback Terry Bradshaw. Making Iowa one of only a few schools to use the uniform scheme of an NFL team. Although the uniforms appear the same, there are subtle differences, mainly in the scheme of the white away jerseys, the Steeler jerseys have the players names in yellow, while the Hawkeyes use black. The Hawkeyes have removed the Tiger hawks four times, and the single gold stripe from their game helmets as a symbolic gesture of mourning. The first instance was on November 2, 1991, in recognition of the six victims of a fatal campus shooting. The second occasion was for a December 29, 1996, appearance in the Alamo Bowl. It served to commemorate the family of linebacker Mark Mitchell, who were involved in a fatal vehicle accident while en route to the game. The accident resulted in the death of Mitchell’s mother and severe injuries to his father and two brothers. Third, being on Veterans’ Day 2011 when they used a red, white, and blue tiger hawk on one side and left the other side blank in honor of our fallen heroes against Michigan. All three games resulted in Iowa victories. Fourth, and most recent September 12, 2015 when they honored #9 Tyler Sash, former Iowa Safety and NFL Veteran, who had passed away on September 8, 2015. The Iowa Athletic Director has okayed only four stickers on the helmets over the last thirty years, the first, in 1984, when a gold disk appeared, with the black letters ” ANF , ” Which stands for America Needs Farmers, this sticker has remained in place since it was first placed onto the helmet. The second was a small black sticker on the back of the helmet, with white letters that spelled out ” EVY , ” the nickname of legendary Iowa head coach, and Athletic Director, Forest Evasheski, to commemorate his passing in 2009. The third was in memory of Iowa high school football coaching legend Ed Thomas, who was killed in his team’s weight room by a former player. A small gold sticker with the black letters ” FFF ” placed near the crown of the helmet represents Faith, Family, Football, a motto Coach Thomas preached to his players to represent what his players priorities should be not only through the season, but throughout life. And the fourth, and most recent being a small green sticker, with the number 30 on it to honor former Hawkeye Safety Brett Greenwood, who had recently fallen into a coma while working out at his old high school. Main article: Kinnick Stadium. Formerly known as Iowa Stadium , is the home stadium of the University of Iowa. Hawkeyes in Iowa City. It opened as Iowa Stadium in 1929; prior to that time, Iowa played its home games at Iowa Field. Iowa Stadium was renamed Kinnick Stadium in 1972 in honor of Nile Kinnick. The 1939 Heisman Trophy. Winner and the only Heisman winner in university history, who died in service during World War II. It currently holds up to 70,585 people, making it the 27th largest college football stadium in America and the 86th largest sports stadium in the world. Iowa plays trophy games against Iowa State. Main article: Iowa-Iowa State football rivalry. Iowa plays Iowa State. Annually for the Cy-Hawk Trophy, which began in 1977. The teams first meeting was in 1894. The teams quit meeting after the 1934 season until they renewed their rivalry in 1977. It was in 1977 when the tradition of the Cy-Hawk Trophy began, when the Des Moines Athletic Club donated a trophy dedicated to the rivlary. It was quickly dubbed the ” Cy-Hawk Trophy “. Iowa leads the overall series 41-22, and Iowa also leads the trophy series 25-14. Main article: IowaMinnesota football rivalry. Annually for the Floyd of Rosedale, which is Iowa’s oldest trophy that began in 1935. The teams first meeting was in 1891. Minnesota leads the overall series 62-44-2, and also leads the trophy series 42-36-2. Floyd of Rosedale was created in 1935 after Minnesota Governor Floyd Olson bet a prize pig that the Gophers would win the game, a goal which the Gophers would accomplish that year. After the death of the pig, its image was cast in bronze, and the Floyd of Rosedale trophy was created. Main article: IowaNebraska football rivalry. Annually for the Heroes Trophy, which began when Nebraska joined the Big Ten Conference in 2011. Nebraska won the most recent meeting on November 28, 2014, defeating Iowa in Iowa City by a score of 37-34 in overtime. The trophy series stands at 3-1 with Nebraska leading. Main article: Iowa-Wisconsin football rivalry. Iowa has played Wisconsin. For the Heartland Trophy since 2004. The teams’ first meeting was in 1894. Wisconsin leads the overall series 44-43-2, and Iowa leads the trophy series 5-4. Iowa’s official fight song is the Iowa Fight Song. Which is sung by the marching band and the fans. Iowa’s school song is On Iowa. Iowa also plays a third fight song, entitled Roll Along Iowa. After victories the band plays “In Heaven There Is No Beer”. Iowa’s mascot is Herky the Hawk. A black and gold caricature of a Hawk. Herky was created as a cartoon in 1948, and first appeared at a sporting event in 1959. Herky was actually named after the Greek God Hercules. The term “Hawkeye” originally appeared in the book The Last of the Mohicans and was later used in its plural form to describe the people of Iowa. The University of Iowa adopted this as the nickname for its athletic teams. Originally founded in 1881, the Hawkeye Marching Band. Now performs at all Iowa Hawkeye home football games. The band also travels with the team to usually one away game per year and any post-season bowl games. 886 Stadium Drive Iowa City, Iowa. 70,585 (2006present) 70,397 (19922005) 70,220 (19901991) 67,700 (19831989) 60,160 (19561982) 53,000 (19291955). (19721988) Grass (19291971, 19892008). Proudfoot, Rawson, and Souers. Kinnick Stadium , formerly known as Iowa Stadium , is a stadium. Located in Iowa City. It is the home stadium of the University of Iowa. First opened in 1929, it currently holds up to 70,585 people, making it the 7th largest stadium in the Big Ten. And one of the 20 largest university owned stadiums in the nation. It is named for Nile Kinnick. It was named Iowa Stadium until 1972, when longtime lobbying by Cedar Rapids Gazette. Sportswriter Gus Schrader successfully convinced the UI athletic board to change the name. It is currently the only college football stadium named after a Heisman Trophy winner. Iowa Stadium was constructed in only seven months between 1928 and 1929. Groundbreaking and construction began on March 6, 1929. Workers worked around the clock using lights by night and horses and mules as the primary heavy-equipment movers. There was a rumor for many years that horses that died during the process were buried under what now is the North end zone. Historians report this is a myth and the animals were disposed of in the nearby Iowa River. The round-the-clock construction came to an end in July. Despite several problems to overcome, including the athletic director. S resignation and a slight redesign, the stadium was completed and the first game was played October 5, 1929, against Monmouth College. Iowa won the game 460. The stadium was dedicated two weeks later, when the Hawkeyes tied Illinois. The playing surface is currently synthetic Field Turf, although it was AstroTurf. From 1972 until grass was reinstalled for the 1989 through 2008 seasons. The installation of artificial turf came at the same time that Iowa Stadium was renamed Kinnick Stadium in honor of the Heisman winner who had perished 29 years earlier. When filled to capacity, Kinnick Stadium would be the fifth-largest city in Iowa after Des Moines. Prior to the 2012 football season, the stadium did not have field lights; the school contracted Musco Lighting. S portable light trucks for night games in previous years. By capacity, Kinnick Stadium is the 27th largest college football stadium, the 42nd largest sports stadium in the United States, and the 86th largest sports stadium in the world. On November 14, 2015, Iowa set the national collegiate wrestling dual-meet attendance record at Kinnick with over 42,000 fans in a victory over #1 Oklahoma State. Inside the visitor’s pink locker room inside Kinnick Stadium. Former Iowa coach Hayden Fry had the locker room painted pink. Kinnick Stadium is well known for its pink. Visitors’ locker rooms, a tradition started by emeritus Iowa coach Hayden Fry. Believing that pink would put opponents in a “passive mood”, and because he thought that some believed pink was a “sissy color”, Fry had the visiting locker rooms decorated completely in the color pink. One thing we didn’t paint black and gold was the stadium’s visitors locker room, which we painted pink. It’s a passive color, and we hoped it would put our opponents in a passive mood. Also, pink is often found in girls’ bedrooms, and because of that some consider it a sissy color. Hayden Fry, Hayden Fry: A High Porch Picnic , p. The pink locker room tradition has been continued with the newly renovated locker rooms, which include everything from pink urinals to pink lockers. Controversy flared during the 2005 season when a visiting law professor, along with other university faculty and students protested the pink coloration as demeaning to women and homosexuals. Despite these protests and with lots of student support, however, the locker room remains pink. A more recent feature is the 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) bronze statue of Heisman Trophy. The statue depicts Kinnick dressed as a scholar, rather than in his football uniform. The bronze statue is placed near the team entrance to the stadium. When the renovation of the stadium was completed, and the statue unveiled, a tradition among the players began: one player, before entering the locker room, reached out and touched the helmet that was placed at Kinnick’s feet. From that point on, all Iowa players, before entering the locker room, and after getting off the bus, walk up to the statue and rub the helmet, as a token of respect for Kinnick – the only Iowa player to ever win the Heisman Trophy. The on-field entrances to the stadium all have one thing in common, a picture of Nile Kinnick is placed above the tunnel before exiting the tunnel to the field. The new scoreboard in the south end zone at Historic Kinnick Stadium. After 75 years of operation, the Iowa Board of Regents. Endorsed a major renovation of Kinnick Stadium on March 10, 2004. And the dedication of the Krause Family Plaza to which Kinnick Stadium is now adjacent. Every brick for the renovation came from the Glen-Gery Brickyard in Redfield, Iowa. Which is located near Nile Kinnick’s boyhood home in Adel, Iowa. The stadium was rededicated on September 1, 2006. Among other things, the rededication featured a flyover. By a F4F Wildcat. The aircraft that Kinnick flew in World War II. The stadium also underwent major renovations in 1956, 1983, and 1990 where capacity was gradually taken from 53,000 to 70,397. The most recent renovations in 200406 pushed the capacity to its current level at 70,585. In the Spring of 2009, the grass turf and 20-year-old drainage system were replaced with a new state of the art synthetic Field Turf. 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