Pre-Owned Tales from the Iowa Sidelines (Paperback) 1596700130 9781596700130

The University of Iowa has been fielding football teams since 1889, and Kirk Ferentz is the latest Hawkeye coach to attain success. Ferentz's teams have won a school-record 38 games over the past four seasons, including 18 straight at Kinnick Stadium. With records of 7-5, 11-2, 10-3 and 10-2 in successive seasons, Ferentz has opened the eyes of football-watchers across the nation. Clearly, he has vaulted into the select company of Howard Jones, Eddie Anderson, Forest Evashevski and Hayden Fry as a big-time Hawkeye coaching winner. In Tales from the Iowa Sidelines, award-winning author Ron Maly covers all the highlights of Ferentz's tenure at Iowa. But there's much more. In the book, experience a rich Hawkeye history through the vivid memories of captain Erwin Prasse and teammate George "Red" Frye as they flash back to the 1939 Ironmen, who were coached by Anderson and led by Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick. Take a look at Howard Jones's unbeaten teams in 1921 and 1922, Forest Evashevski's two Rose Bowl championship teams in the 1950s and how Fry brought the Iowa program back from the scrap heap in the 1980s and 1990s. Maly describes the interesting scenarios that brought All-Americans Calvin Jones and Alex Karras to Iowa, the touching story of how former star Bob Stoops placed his Rose Bowl ring in his father's casket and why the 1985 Hawkeyes were ranked No. 1 nationally for five weeks. Take a nostaglic trip with the Hawkeyes through more than a century of triumphs and tragedies, fun and frustration, legend and lore in Tales from the Iowa Sidelines. Book jacket.