About your behavior after the unexpected football victory over Alabama on Saturday late afternoon. You looked like a mob on TV. It was shocking to see.
1, The first college bowl game I ever watched as a kid was the Jan. 1, 1968 Cotton Bowl. Texas A&M beat Bear Bryant's University of Alabama Crimson Tide. A&M was coached by Coach Bryant's former assistant, Gene Stallings. After the game Coach Bryant didn't just shake his protege's hand, Bear picked up Coach Stallings and carried him off the field. That's the kind of guy Bear Byant was.
2. In 1978, the second year the Iowa-Iowa State football rivalry was resumed after a 40-plus-year hiatus, Iowa State, then coached by Earle Bruce, shut out the Bob Commings-coached Hawkeyes 31-0 on the arm of Ellsworth Community College transfer Walter Grant, the running of Dexter Green and a defense that included future NFL player Mike Stensrud . You will recall that one of the conditions of the rivalry's resumption was that the first four games were to be played in Iowa City. Cyclone fans celebrated by tearing down the Kinnick Stadium goalposts.
I was listening to the game on WHO radio. Former Iowa coach and AD Forrest Evashevski, then a color analyst paired with Jim Zabel's play by play, commented, "I think Bump Elliott is going to be sending Lou McCullough a bill for those goalposts."
Not sure Bump invoiced Lou for the goalposts, but Iowa did invest in a new football coach. Less than three months later, on Dec. 9, 1978, Hayden Fry was introduced as the new head coach at Iowa.
Great piece Chuck. Two memories come to mind:
1, The first college bowl game I ever watched as a kid was the Jan. 1, 1968 Cotton Bowl. Texas A&M beat Bear Bryant's University of Alabama Crimson Tide. A&M was coached by Coach Bryant's former assistant, Gene Stallings. After the game Coach Bryant didn't just shake his protege's hand, Bear picked up Coach Stallings and carried him off the field. That's the kind of guy Bear Byant was.
2. In 1978, the second year the Iowa-Iowa State football rivalry was resumed after a 40-plus-year hiatus, Iowa State, then coached by Earle Bruce, shut out the Bob Commings-coached Hawkeyes 31-0 on the arm of Ellsworth Community College transfer Walter Grant, the running of Dexter Green and a defense that included future NFL player Mike Stensrud . You will recall that one of the conditions of the rivalry's resumption was that the first four games were to be played in Iowa City. Cyclone fans celebrated by tearing down the Kinnick Stadium goalposts.
I was listening to the game on WHO radio. Former Iowa coach and AD Forrest Evashevski, then a color analyst paired with Jim Zabel's play by play, commented, "I think Bump Elliott is going to be sending Lou McCullough a bill for those goalposts."
Not sure Bump invoiced Lou for the goalposts, but Iowa did invest in a new football coach. Less than three months later, on Dec. 9, 1978, Hayden Fry was introduced as the new head coach at Iowa.
You have always told great stories. Thanks,
Congrats Chuck & great Bryant story!