The Hawkeyes were highly ranked entering the season. Iowa started the season with victories over Cal, USC, IU and Wisconsin. Then a four game skid with the season ending with a victory over Notre Dame.
The dark ages of Iowa football were about to begin. New academic standards made things tough for some coaches and Athletic Director Evashevski made life impossible for others. Described as a man who couldn’t tolerate losing, Evy reportedly even withheld ice from the team one year.
Feuding within the athletic department led to disgruntlements of all sorts, many of them public, while on the field, the ball almost always took its bounce against Iowa.
Meanwhile, Woody Hayes' Buckeyes won the Big Ten and ended the season ranked #2 in the nation with a 8-0-1 record with the tie coming against TCU in the opening game of the season.
Curiously however, Minnesota went to the Rose Bowl and defeated UCLA. Anybody know why that occurred? (Not a trivia question. I don't know the answer)
Big Ten Conference champion Ohio State declined the invitation to play in the Rose Bowl. They were under no contractual obligation to accept the invitation following the demise of the Pacific Coast Conference after the 1958 college football season. Minnesota, the second-place team in the Big Ten, was then offered the "at-large" invitation, and accepted.
A most unlikely faculty decision took place on the Ohio State University
campus in the fall of 1961. The faculty senate voted to reject an invitation
for Ohio State’s football team to participate in the Rose Bowl on January 1,
1962. This historic action took place because the faculty believed the tail
(football) was wagging the dog (academics). This decision was prompted by
evidence of infractions by OSU of National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) regulations and questionable behavior by football coach Woody
Hayes. This adverse publicity portrayed Ohio’s major university as a “football
factory.” Two protagonists met on the battle field, namely Hayes and
Jack Fullen, longtime secretary of the Ohio State University Alumni Association.
Fullen had been a critic of the overemphasis of football on the OSU
campus. It was David versus Goliath. Amidst anger from alumni, Fullen
remained in office fighting a losing battle until his retirement in 1967.
Hayes retained his popularity on campus by producing winning teams. The
action taken by the OSU faculty was truly the “eighth wonder of the world.”
One cannot imagine the OSU faculty attempting to reform king football
again.
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Certainly didn't seem to have a long term impact. Perhaps they should have hired Forest Evashevski as AD if they wanted to kill their football program.
Groups of angry students roamed the OSU campus, looking for faculty senate members to punish. Hayes sent players out to cool the crowds.
This would be Minnesota's last trip to Pasadena - 51 years ago and due to a fluke of history. Ironically, they won the Rose Bowl that year, whereas in 1960 they were legitimate Big Ten champions (beating Iowa to get there) but were defeated by Cal in the Rose Bowl.
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