Hayden Fry's First Recruiting Film - 1980

[Northside Hawk]

Always good to get a piece on your birthday!

I know. My birthday is next week.

 

[HaydenHawk56]

Why are 1970ish/early80s announcers so monotonish? LOL.

Narrator could also be a clone for this gem:

 

[uihawk82]

Unbelievable that it was full back in the day. I know I'm a stick in the mud... but I liked old Kinnick better.

And I played on those tennis courts a lot and tennis in the old indoor athletic building which is also in that photo. The old racket ball courts were deep in the bowels of the old fieldhouse and anyone could play pick up basketball on the main bball court. And I got schooled on that bball court many times by some players much better than my slightly above avg game.

 

[cincyhawk]

And I played on those tennis courts a lot and tennis in the old indoor athletic building which is also in that photo. The old racket ball courts were deep in the bowels of the old fieldhouse and anyone could play pick up basketball on the main bball court. And I got schooled on that bball court many times by some players much better than my slightly above avg game.

That was my experience as well.

 

[Seth53]

I know. My birthday is next week.

Do you 'blow' out the candles before or after your 5 minute yearly between-the-sheets refresher?

 

[Northside Hawk]

Do you 'blow' out the candles before or after your 5 minute yearly between-the-sheets refresher?

At my age it akes at least five minutes to make sure the other body parts are in working order!

 

[DenverHawk94]

That was awesome thanks for posting.

For some reason I want to play football for Hayden Fry and hit the pedestrian mall and get some Jordache jeans and Dingo boots.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Hayden Fry had the swagger. He just needed the players.

When the larger-than-life Texan arrived in Iowa City in 1979, the Hawkeyes' new coach faced a tall task: rebuilding and rebranding a football program that hadn't enjoyed a winning season since 1961. But how would he draw elite players to a team with its fourth head coach in a decade? The answer, at least in part, came in this 13-minute recruiting film, produced by the Iowa Athletics Department in 1980.



http://www.foriowa.org/iowa-stories...v625Myf9TOaFnYGdMGTGvJ86vkS-Za1WucTqt0YDt1qWc

Cool...except Tippet was recruited by Commings

 

[hawkeyebob62]

• OMG! A left handed Chuck Long.

Don't get excited out there, I knew that was Phill Suess

• If those weight training facilities were considered state of the art, then WTF was there before? It is easy to see why we were getting manhandled for two decades.
• Side note on weight training. Look at the players using the Nautilus machines. Two seconds down, four seconds back, rep after rep. Our high school borrowed this from what Iowa was doing at the time and used the same method for a while.
• Whatever happened to the Statue of Liberty play?

Running it two plays in a row against should have, by all rights, killed it. Somehow, it lasted through the 1980 season...and beyond.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Playing frisbee on the Pentacrest. Yeah, that'll suck em in!

By the time I started attending Iowa in 1984 they had at least moved up to hacky sack.

When they weren't storming President Freedman's office for investing in South African companies and painting "Stephen Biko Hall" on the side of Jessup and things like that.

And no, I wasn't there. If it was a Thursday night I was getting hammered at Dooley's (One Eyed Jake's)

I thought it was Phillips Hall--the old Business Building--that got the "Biko" treatment. I remember when a gang of the radical types came into the IMU bragging that they had "just kicked the CIA off campus!" Come to find one of their future heroes would weaponize the CIA, NSA, FBI, IRS, et. al. My, how things changed...

 

[ChosenChildren]

People complain about our 7-5 and 8-4 records now. Iowa went literally A DECADE without a winning record prior to Hayden arriving. A DECADE!!

Actually, they went from 1962 through 1980 without a winning season. I believe that is 19 consecutive seasons at .500 or worse. We've had this discussion many times, but fans should not complain about 8-5 seasons.

 

[ChosenChildren]

Iowa went 5-4 in 1961 and then didn't have a winning season again until 1981, Hayden's first Rose Bowl team that went 8-3 in the regular season.

 

[NCHawker]

I've been wondering how Iowa will honor Hayden Fry when he passes on. Would it be initials on the sleeves like the bears have? GHF or a single game helmet decal? something on the field?

 

[Motigerhawk]

Great video.

My favorite line was "Iowa DOES pass" Emphasis was his on the does. 3 yards and a cloud of dust sees the beginning of the end. Well, sort of.

 

[Fryowa]

I've been wondering how Iowa will honor Hayden Fry when he passes on. Would it be initials on the sleeves like the bears have? GHF or a single game helmet decal? something on the field?

GHF?

 

[99topdawg]

GHF?

Gohn Hayden Fry.

 

[Robowe]

 

[ssckelley]

Thanks for bumping, it made me watch it again.

 

[KCHawkeye]

I've been wondering how Iowa will honor Hayden Fry when he passes on. Would it be initials on the sleeves like the bears have? GHF or a single game helmet decal? something on the field?

The field should be named 'Hayden Fry Field at Kinnick Stadium'.