Iowa Hawkeyes Ticket Information

The Iowa Hawkeyes is the name which is used for all the teams representing the University of Iowa. The athletes participate in 23 different sports, eleven of which are for men and twelve for women. The colors of the teams are black and gold. The university is a member of the Big 10 Conference.

The teams home is the historic Kinnick Stadium (named to commemorate a former football player, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1939). The stadium can host over seventy thousand spectators. In 2006 in was reconstructed (a sum of more than ninety million dollars was spent).

In the past five years the team turned out to be very successful. Five times they participated in the national bowl games receiving two Big Ten titles in 02 and 04. The major rival of The Iowa Hawkeyes is Minnesota. Every year they compete for the Floyd of Rosedale trophy.

The Iowa Hawkeyes advanced a lot in wrestling. They won fifteen NCAA championships from 1978 to 1997. All in all the Iowa Hawkeyes champions gained seventy-three individual titles. In 2006 the team hired a new coach Tom Brands, who is a four-time Olympic champion. The Iowa Hawkeyes have won hundred Big 10 titles and twenty-two National titles in all kinds of sports.

The Iowa Hawkeyes borrowed their name from their native state Iowa and from the name of the old chief who participated in the Black War in 1832.

The Iowa Hawkeyes are probably more famous for their football achievements. At the beginning of the 1870s football was played only as a club sport. Almost twenty years were needed to recognize it officially. The first game was played in 1889 between the University of Iowa and Grinnell College. Unfortunately the Hawkeyes were defeated with a slashing score 24 to 0. In 1892 two important events happened, which lately influenced greatly the game of the Iowa Hawkeyes. First of all, their first coach was hired (his name was E.A. Dalton), and secondly, the Iowa Hawkeyes joined their first conference – the WIUFA (the Western Interstate University Football Association).

In 1910 Jessie Hawley was hired. During their next seasons the Iowa Hawkeyes were practically invincible. In 1914 they won the match with the Northern Iowa with an astonishing score 95-0, which became the largest margin ever in college history. 1920s are sometimes called Howard Jones Era as this coach made the team a very strong one. That period was followed by 1930s, a so-called football depression for the team.

The years of the Second World War were hard as their head coach Eddie Anderson had to leave the team. He was an urologist and went to work at a military hospital. Nothing changed in 60s and 70s . In 1980s John Hayden Fry was hired to make the team win again. He made the emphasis on the defense forces and thus brought an exciting passing game to the Big 10 for the fist time in the teams history. The fans recovered their spirit and began supporting their team with more passion. They couldnt miss the game of their idols and were chasing the tickets as any game promised to be an exciting event.

At the moment the Iowa Hawkeyes coach is Kirk Ferentz who continues to contribute to the teams achievements.

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