After today's game, BTN Big Ten Elite: 1985 Iowa Football

tweeterhawk

tweeterhawk

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This is just BTN's trailer but definitely worth the 7:26 to watch; brings a tear of pride to the eye and a lump in the throat. A lot of revered names shown: Hayden Fry, Bill Brashier, Chuck Long, Ronnie Harmon (well, revered by some, hated by others), Bob Stoops, Bill Happel, Bump Elliott, Kirk Ferentz, Rob Houghtlin. Will be eager to see the full presentation.

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And speaking of that storied team, a Sparty encourages the BTN to add the 1985 Michigan State at Iowa football game to their replay list. Faygo wrote: "Homecoming and it was a back-and-forth slugfest that has to be seen to be believed. Chuck Long was great for Iowa, and Lorenzo White was unstoppable for Michigan State. The final was 35-31 Iowa on a naked bootleg by Long with almost no time left. Even though my Spartans lost, I will never forget watching that one – even remember where I was for the game."

Note: Iowa had lost the previous year when Long was stopped just short of the goalline on a similar play to the right on an attempted 2-point conversion. Sweet revenge.

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Well great video memories. Unfortunately, 2 things in these clips I'll never see again in my lifetime....a #1 ranked Hawkeye football team and the sheer excitement and frenzy in this game, that Michigan game etc. Brings a depressive tear to my eye.
 








I wish we'd go back to the gianormous letters on the pads and the yellow lettering for a game or two
 












Bigtenchamp said:
love the hayden told him to run the bootleg but tell no one else... can't see Mr Ferentz pulling that
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you saw it if you watched the nebraska game and any other time iowa has run a naked boot leg. note how weisman thought he was getting the ball - only Beatherd knew that was going to be a naked bootleg. that's not a hayden thing, it's a naked bootleg thing.
 


Bigtenchamp said:
Ronnie Harmon.... grrrrrrr
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He had nearly 2,000 yards from scrimmage that year, in 11 games. You can make a strong case he's the best player in the history of the Iowa program. His last game was awful and under very suspicious circumstances. No doubt. But I got over it.

One last thing to remember at Harmon:

In 2006 Kirk allowed him to be honorary captain for the Ohio St game. Kirk was part of that staff in 1985. By 2006 he was in total control in all things Iowa football. No way, absolutely no way, he allows Harmon near the program if he felt Harmon did what most think he did.
 


Xerxes said:
He had nearly 2,000 yards from scrimmage that year, in 11 games. You can make a strong case he's the best player in the history of the Iowa program. His last game was awful and under very suspicious circumstances. No doubt. But I got over it.

One last thing to remember at Harmon:

In 2006 Kirk allowed him to be honorary captain for the Ohio St game. Kirk was part of that staff in 1985. By 2006 he was in total control in all things Iowa football. No way, absolutely no way, he allows Harmon near the program if he felt Harmon did what most think he did.
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Unless you believe DJK...:)
 


Xerxes said:
He had nearly 2,000 yards from scrimmage that year, in 11 games. You can make a strong case he's the best player in the history of the Iowa program. His last game was awful and under very suspicious circumstances. No doubt. But I got over it.

One last thing to remember at Harmon:

In 2006 Kirk allowed him to be honorary captain for the Ohio St game. Kirk was part of that staff in 1985. By 2006 he was in total control in all things Iowa football. No way, absolutely no way, he allows Harmon near the program if he felt Harmon did what most think he did.
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I doubt Kirk has even heard the rumor. He likely spends far less time (none) on message boards than we do.
 


Hayden Fry has a picture in his office with Chuck Long scoring a touchdown that wasn't called by the officials. Long was three feet off the ground and parallel to the surface and aimed like a missile into the end zone. The ball was on top of his shoulder pad and his other hand was coming down on top of the goal line. No one was very close to him. Should have been a touchdown right there. You could see that he scored even from the press box. MSU pushed him back and THEN the officials marked the ball short [after he had already scored].
 


That was the 2 point conversation in 1984 where Chuck Long got jipped. He wanted there to be no question in 1985.
 


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