NCHawker
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I don't know if this team's record is rolled into the Hawkeye's history or not. Take a look at the
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Iowa Pre-Flight Seahawks
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NCHawker
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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.
For Christmas I got a framed picture of a ticket to the Iowa Preflight vs Notre Dame October 17 1942.
Motigerhawk
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What an amazing keepsake
Fryowa
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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
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Good article explaining the Pre-Flight schools...
https://magazine.foriowa.org/archive/archive-story.php?ed=true&storyid=1682
https://magazine.foriowa.org/archive/archive-story.php?ed=true&storyid=1682
NorthKCHawk
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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...
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earlkoppelman
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Indeed
George Allen is smiling.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
