Review of
Stadium Stories: Iowa Hawkeyes,
by Buck Turnbull, ISBN 0762738197
Five out of five stars
Many fond memories revisited
As a lifelong resident of Eastern Iowa, I grew up and
have spent my adult life following the Iowa football team. The games were always
on the radio and the announcers were familiar. There were many down years of
poor performance, yet there have been many spectacular plays, some of which won
the game in the last seconds. I was fortunate enough to have seen most of them
live, this book is a combination general history as well as a revisitation of those
great moments.
As I read this
book I went online so that I could relive the great moments. Chuck Long on a
bootleg to defeat Michigan State in the final seconds, Rob Houghtlin’s last
second field goal to defeat Michigan, Marv Cook catching a last-second
touchdown pass to beat Ohio State and the best of all, Drew Tate to Warren Holloway
in a 56-yard touchdown pass in the last play of the game. I vividly remember
where I was when these events happened.
Reliving those
great moments online and in print still sends tingles through my body, it
simply doesn’t get any better than that.
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