Athletics

Ozzie Simmons' yearbook photo inset within a photograph from the 1935 football game between Iowa and Minnesota

As we fight for Floyd, don’t overlook Ozzie

The birth of the traveling trophy known as Floyd of Rosedale wasn’t just a silly wager between two border-state governors. It was a conciliatory gesture in the wake of the 1934 game, in which the Hawkeyes’ Ozzie Simmons, who was Black, suffered numerous injurious hits.
A man standing on a baseball diamond

An analytics ace

University of Iowa alumnus Sam Bornstein led one of college baseball’s largest analytics staffs as a student, giving the Hawkeyes an edge on the diamond.
Two people working out

Hawkeye keeping athletes at the top of their game

Zoe Hicks wanted to combine her fascination with the human body with her love of sports. The Californian found that opportunity as an athletic training student for the Hawkeyes.
Hayden Fry on the sidelines with his football team

Why Hayden and Hawkeye spirit are synonymous

With the death of former football coach Hayden Fry, a University of Iowa alumna and staff writer revisits the words she wrote after the Hawkeye legend announced his retirement in 1998.
A girl in a jersey crossing her arms staring at the camera

Here’s looking at you, Kid Captains

A decade of Kid Captains highlights the special bond between University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital and the football team that plays right across the street.
A side angle of a bronze statue of a pig

The pig and the politician

Only one team can leave the Iowa-Minnesota football game with a bronze pig. Here’s the story behind the beloved trophy.