1976-Bicentennial Iowa City – Section F – Pages 5-8

Click here to go back to the home page: July 1, 1976 – The Bicentennial & Iowa City.

Look for this logo and associated links throughout Our Iowa Heritage website. It will tell you that there’s a story or two, or a Fred Kent photograph taken from this 1976 Press-Citizen Bicentennial edition.
Page F5 – Press-Citizen sports writer Al Grady writes about Iowa’s most successful football teams: 1899-1900, 1921-22, 1939, and 1956-58.

You can read more here:
Duke Slater – Iowa’s All-American Trailblazer.
Nile Kinnick – Iowa’s Heisman Winner.
The 1950’s – Hooray For Evy’s Hawkeyes.
Iowa Football – The Five Elite Hawkeye Coaches.
Page F5 – Grady continues his historic look at the Hawkeyes as they open Iowa Stadium in the fall of 1929.

You can read more here:
1928-1929: From Iowa Field To Iowa Stadium.
Page F6 – Steve Holland writes about those SUI students who participated in the 1924 Olympics.
Page F7 – Here Iowa City High’s 1970 football season is discussed.
Page F7 – Steve Holland tells the story of The Boot – the trophy given to the annual winner of the Iowa City High vs. Iowa City West football game.
Page F7 – Finally, Steve Holland writes about Frank Bates – longtime football coach at Iowa City High.
Page F8 – John R. Munson tells the story of Mechanics Academy and of Iowa City’s long-standing reputation for being a city of academics.

You can read more here:
Welcome To Iowa City – Athens Of Iowa.
Mechanics Academy: The Cradle Of SUI.
Iowa City’s Commercial Colleges – Taking Care Of Business.
Iowa City: Opening Doors For The Blind.
Iowa City: Opening Doors For The Deaf.
Page F8 – Johanna N. Beers tells the story of Mercy Hospital having its start in the old Mechanics Academy.

You can read more here.
Mechanics Academy: The Cradle Of SUI.
The Hospitals Of Iowa City.
Click here to go back to the home page: July 1, 1976 – The Bicentennial & Iowa City.

Look for this logo and associated links throughout Our Iowa Heritage website. It will tell you that there’s a story or two, or a Fred Kent photograph taken from this 1976 Press-Citizen Bicentennial edition.


Click here to go on to the next page in this series…

Kudos to the amazing resources below for the many quotes, photographs, etc. used on this page.

The great Iowa football teams, Al Grady, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 49

Kinnick Stadium opened in a sea of mud, Al Grady, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 49

The Olympics! A thrill that has lasted 50 years, Steve Holland, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 50

City High’s 1970 victory was a thriller, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 51

‘The Boot’ means city football supremacy, Steve Holland, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 51

Bates’ football success was just the beginning, Steve Holland, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 51

Iowa City infested with ‘academic mania’, John R. Munson, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 52

Defunct academy was first Mercy Hospital, Johanna N. Beers, Iowa City Press-Citizen, July 1, 1976, p 52