Happy Homecoming weekend everyone! Here's to the quest for the Rose Bowl in 2010 for the Iowa Hawkeyes ...
We had a great Friday night with 12 Washington High School freshman and a lovely home dinner before the Homecoming dance. Thank you to the Ross family for hosting a wonderful dinner.
Now, it's Hawkeye Football and Homecoming weekend in Iowa City! #17 Iowa hosts #21 Penn State at Kinnick Stadium at 7 p.m. Central Time, also nationally on ESPN.
In 1974, I began attending Hawkeye football games at Kinnick Stadium with my mother and father. They were long-time ticket holders dating back to the "Fainting Irish" days at Kinnick Stadium. Actually, my first Hawkeye game, I ever attended was in West Lafayette, when Iowa traveled to play Purdue a couple of seasons before.
Iowa was 1-1 as Penn State came to town in 1974. Bob Commings was Iowa's head coach, in his first year, and Iowa was coming off a 21-10 win over Top 20 UCLA at Kinnick the previous week. It was a disappointing 0-27 game at Kinnick back in 1974.
We had a great Friday night with 12 Washington High School freshman and a lovely home dinner before the Homecoming dance. Thank you to the Ross family for hosting a wonderful dinner.
Now, it's Hawkeye Football and Homecoming weekend in Iowa City! #17 Iowa hosts #21 Penn State at Kinnick Stadium at 7 p.m. Central Time, also nationally on ESPN.
In 1974, I began attending Hawkeye football games at Kinnick Stadium with my mother and father. They were long-time ticket holders dating back to the "Fainting Irish" days at Kinnick Stadium. Actually, my first Hawkeye game, I ever attended was in West Lafayette, when Iowa traveled to play Purdue a couple of seasons before.
Iowa was 1-1 as Penn State came to town in 1974. Bob Commings was Iowa's head coach, in his first year, and Iowa was coming off a 21-10 win over Top 20 UCLA at Kinnick the previous week. It was a disappointing 0-27 game at Kinnick back in 1974.
Now, fast forward to 2010, and Joe Paterno is bringing his Penn State Nittany Lions back into Iowa City for now a Big Ten game between Iowa-Penn State. Iowa is going for eight win in nine games vs. the Nittany Lions and Joe Paterno in the Big Ten.
Will this be Joe Paterno's final visit as head coach of the Nittany Lions? He is in his remarkable 45Th season as head coach of the boys from Happy Valley. It's likely many Hawkeye fans and even Nittany Lion fans have asked that question before. The Gazette writer Marc Morehouse has a story headlined today in GameDay titled "Joe's last stand?"
I have enjoyed coach Joe Paterno, since the days of watching Joe Cappelletti run wild and win the Heisman Trophy at Penn State.
Here's to Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz continuing to hold Penn State's number and pulling off another exciting victory. Iowa's first win was in 1930 in Iowa City over Penn State. The series is tied 11-11, lifetime.
Here's to a win at Kinnick Stadium tonight. On Iowa!
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