November 3, 1928 – The final football game is played in Iowa Field, which opened in 1895 and was located at the base of the Iowa River, just west of Old Capitol.
As you can see from the photo (above), Iowa Field – with its two stadiums – stretched along the Iowa River from Iowa Avenue to the north and Burlington Street to the south. The interurban railroad line (CRANDIC) ran adjacent to both the baseball and football fields, and train conductors would often slow their train so that both they and their riders could view a part of the games being played.
The new Iowa Stadium on the west side of the Iowa River replaced Iowa Field in 1929. It was constructed in only seven months with groundbreaking and construction beginning in March, 1929. Workers labored around the clock using lights by night with horses and mules as the primary heavy-equipment movers, with the first football game played there on October 5th.
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