Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks

[NCHawker]

I don't know if this team's record is rolled into the Hawkeye's history or not. Take a look at the

1942 Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks football team - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[NCHawker]

On a related note, a lot of colleges turned over their campus to the military. My Dad was at Notre Dame at the time and when the Navy came in, he walked across campus and enlisted in Officer Candidate School.

For Christmas I got a framed picture of a ticket to the Iowa Preflight vs Notre Dame October 17 1942.

 

[KCHawkeye]

Thanks for your dad's service, NC.

Also, my in-laws gave me a ticket to they'd had to the 1939 Iowa vs Notre Dame game. Iowa won 7-6.

 

[Motigerhawk]

Thanks for your dad's service, NC.

Also, my in-laws gave me a ticket to they'd had to the 1939 Iowa vs Notre Dame game. Iowa won 7-6.

What an amazing keepsake

 

[NCHawker]

There is a website that has dozens of ticket stubs like this, you can have them in various sizes. This one is about 12 x 8 inches

 

[Fryowa]

I don't know if this team's record is rolled into the Hawkeye's history or not.

Nope. 2 separate teams. I read a very cool book in college about the WW2 preflight schools and now I can’t remember the name of it.

Hawkeyes still had their own football team playing throughout the war. Completely separate organizations… different players, coaches, and schedules.

Iowa was still in the Western Conference and PF was independent. Preflight schools around the country were made up of service members (coaches and players) with the teams designed to “toughen up” airmen while they got their three months of flight training and before they shipped out overseas.

The only commonality the teams shared was the physical location. Still a very cool chapter in history, but the Pre Flight schools had no connection at all to the schools they were stationed at.

 

[Fryowa]

Good article explaining the Pre-Flight schools...

https://magazine.foriowa.org/archive/archive-story.php?ed=true&storyid=1682

 

[NorthKCHawk]

I love these old stories. Those of us who went to Morningside know that The Maroons hosted Notre Dame for two games over a century ago. According to legend, the second game was played in a snow storm and the Notre Dame players would steal the gloves of the Morningside players on the bottom of the pile.

"The roughest bunch of preachers I ever saw"

In my memory it was early fall, the leaves in Sioux City just beginning to turn. I must have been twelve or thirteen. Dad and I were tossing the football in the yard and talking about my grandfather, Les Davis. He’d died in 1966, when I was nine. Thankfully I’d had the chance to fish with him...

www.hatchmag.com

 

[earlkoppelman]

What an amazing keepsake

Indeed

 

[ohhawk]

I love these old stories. Those of us who went to Morningside know that The Maroons hosted Notre Dame for two games over a century ago. According to legend, the second game was played in a snow storm and the Notre Dame players would steal the gloves of the Morningside players on the bottom of the pile.

"The roughest bunch of preachers I ever saw"

In my memory it was early fall, the leaves in Sioux City just beginning to turn. I must have been twelve or thirteen. Dad and I were tossing the football in the yard and talking about my grandfather, Les Davis. He’d died in 1966, when I was nine. Thankfully I’d had the chance to fish with him...

www.hatchmag.com

George Allen is smiling.