eyekwah
Well-Known Member
I definitely would like to see a series with Notre Dame. If I had to choose between watching a game between Iowa vs Notre Dame or Iowa vs ISU I would choose the ND game every time. I know there are lots of ND haters, but for fans like me that were around for some of the Iowa vs Notre Dame games it would be a welcome reprieve from the same old opponents.
A little history:
What happened to the old Iowa-Notre Dame football rivalry?
the game was usually played in November the last game of the season for Iowa and the next to last for Notre Dame. The series was discontinued after the 1963 season. The last scheduled game was cancelled due to the Kennedy assassination. And the schools have never played each other in football again.
I am trying to find out why the series was discontinued and why it has never been renewed even if for just one season.
And there is a very specific reason why the series was ended.
Additional Details
Tommy the incident you refer to occurred in 1953 ten years before the series was discontinued. In fact the fake injury gambit was one Notre Dame used against several opponents from time to time and more than once against Iowa. The tactic was outlawed later in the 1950s
But I think the incident in 1953 did have a bearing on ending the series. The head coach at Iowa in 1953 was Forest Evashevski who by 1963 had become athletic director at Iowa. Evashevski and the AD at Notre Dame Moose Krause hated each other with a passion dripping with venom.
But Notre Dame was looking to play more Southern schools so Iowa was dropped from their schedule after the 1963 season. The expectation was at the time the series would resume after a hiatus of about ten to twelve years. It never did.
A little history:
What happened to the old Iowa-Notre Dame football rivalry?
the game was usually played in November the last game of the season for Iowa and the next to last for Notre Dame. The series was discontinued after the 1963 season. The last scheduled game was cancelled due to the Kennedy assassination. And the schools have never played each other in football again.
I am trying to find out why the series was discontinued and why it has never been renewed even if for just one season.
And there is a very specific reason why the series was ended.
Additional Details
Tommy the incident you refer to occurred in 1953 ten years before the series was discontinued. In fact the fake injury gambit was one Notre Dame used against several opponents from time to time and more than once against Iowa. The tactic was outlawed later in the 1950s
But I think the incident in 1953 did have a bearing on ending the series. The head coach at Iowa in 1953 was Forest Evashevski who by 1963 had become athletic director at Iowa. Evashevski and the AD at Notre Dame Moose Krause hated each other with a passion dripping with venom.
But Notre Dame was looking to play more Southern schools so Iowa was dropped from their schedule after the 1963 season. The expectation was at the time the series would resume after a hiatus of about ten to twelve years. It never did.
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