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Vote: | Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front-it's a powerful picture. |
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Vote: | How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is? |
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Vote: | I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it. |
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Vote: | I've felt sorry for young people who didn't have an opportunity to play football, because I know what the game can offer. |
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Vote: | If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn. |
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Vote: | In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. |
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Vote: | Sports is such a great vehicle to promote and bring recognition to not only the whole university, but the state. |
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Vote: | The drug problem. The 16-game schedule. But the biggest problem is management. |
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Vote: | The more down-to-earth things can help a lot. |
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Vote: | The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team. |
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Vote: | The preparation I had in college was the most valuable. |
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Vote: | The thing I'm most proud of here at Iowa is putting the ANF on our headgear. |
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Vote: | We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners. |
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Vote: | We had had one of the biggest economic droughts that the midlands had ever seen, and the farmers needed help. It didn't cost anything much to put the decals on the helmets, but it did a lot of good in directing publicity to the problem. There were stories in many national newspapers and sports magazines. |
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Vote: | We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else. |
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Vote: | We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches. |
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Vote: | We're going to foul up once in a while, but people need to know we don't do it on purpose. Playing the game with integrity-that's what it's all about. |
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Vote: | We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar. |
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Vote: | Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away. |
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Vote: | When I came to Iowa, we had to change everything that was associated with a long-held losing mentality. We had to change the total environment-from the players' conduct downtown, from their record of class attendance, from their way of dealing with people. We had to work with the total individual athlete and reconstruct his values and image. |
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Vote: | You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against. |
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John Hayden Fry (born February 28, 1929) was a NCAA Division I-A college football coach from the 1960s through the 1990s. He compiled a record of 232 wins, 178 losses, and 10 ties during his 37-year career as a head coach.
Football career Born in Eastland, Texas, Fry graduated from Baylor University with a degree in psychology in 1951. He later served in the U.S. Marine Corps before coaching high school football in Odessa, Texas, and serving as an assistant coach with Baylor and Arkansas.
Fry's first head coaching job came with Southern Methodist University in 1962. He coached there for 11 seasons, compiling a 49-66-1 record. During his tenure at SMU, on September 24, 1966, Fry integrated the Southwest Conference when he started wide receiver Jerry LeVias at a game against the University of Illinois. LeVias was the first black athlete to receive an athletic scholarship at a Southwest Conference school.
Fry then coached at North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas) from 1973 to 1978, where he went 40-23-3 over six seasons.
Fry was hired as coach at the University of Iowa in December 1978. His first two seasons saw the Hawkeyes compile 5-6 and 4-7 records, but in 1981 the team broke through with its first winning season in 19 years. The season opened with a 10-7 upset over #7-ranked Nebraska; two weeks later they beat #6-ranked UCLA 20-7 and later that season, they beat Michigan 9-7 for its first victory over the Wolverines in 23 years. The Hawkeyes finished the regular season with an 8-3 record and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl, where they lost to Washington 28-0.
The 1981 season was the first of eight straight winning seasons for the Hawkeyes, all of which resulted in bowl game appearances. The 1985 team was ranked #1 in the country for five weeks that season, which featured a dramatic 12-10 victory over #2-ranked Michigan at Kinnick Stadium that was decided on kicker Rob Houghtlin's fourth field goal of the game in the last seconds of the fourth quarter. That team also featured quarterback Chuck Long, who finished a close second in the Heisman Trophy balloting to Auburn's Bo Jackson. They finished the season 10-2 after a 45-28 loss to UCLA in the Rose Bowl.
The Hawkeyes earned a third trip to the Rose Bowl in 1990. They finished tied atop the Big Ten Conference standings with Illinois, Michigan, and Michigan State, all of which compiled 6-2 records, but Iowa earned the trip since they beat all three teams during the regular season. They lost to Washington that year, 46-34. The following year, 1991, saw the Hawkeyes run up a 10-1 regular season record, but the one loss was to eventual Big Ten champion Michigan, costing them a second straight trip to Pasadena. They tied BYU 13-13 in the Holiday Bowl.
Fry retired as coach of the Hawkeyes following the 1998 season, which saw his team's record plunge to 3-8. His overall record at Iowa was 143-89-6 over 20 seasons.
Fry underwent successful treatment for prostate cancer after retiring. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.
Fry's successor as head coach at Iowa, Kirk Ferentz, was an offensive line coach under Fry from 1981-89. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops played for Fry as a defensive back from 1979-82 and was a graduate assistant for the team from 1983-87. Other former Iowa assistants under Fry who eventually became head coaches in Division I-A college football include Iowa State's Dan McCarney, Kansas State's Bill Snyder, and Wisconsin's Barry Alvarez.
Hayden Fry's coaching record
1962 SMU 2-8
1963 SMU 4-7
1964 SMU 1-9
1965 SMU 4-5-1
1966 SMU 8-3
1967 SMU 3-7
1968 SMU 8-3
1969 SMU 3-7
1970 SMU 5-6
1971 SMU 4-7
1972 SMU 7-4
1973 North Texas State 5-5-1
1974 North Texas State 2-7-2
1975 North Texas State 7-4
1976 North Texas State 7-4
1977 North Texas State 10-1
1978 North Texas State 9-2
1979 Iowa 5-6
1980 Iowa 4-7
1981 Iowa 8-4
1982 Iowa 8-4
1983 Iowa 9-3
1984 Iowa 8-4-1
1985 Iowa 10-2
1986 Iowa 9-3
1987 Iowa 10-3
1988 Iowa 6-4-3
1989 Iowa 5-6
1990 Iowa 8-4
1991 Iowa 10-1-1
1992 Iowa 5-7
1993 Iowa 6-6
1994 Iowa 5-5-1
1995 Iowa 8-4
1996 Iowa 9-3
1997 Iowa 7-5
1998 Iowa 3-8
Career 232-178-10
Bowl games at Iowa
1981 Rose Lost to Washington, 28-0
1982 Peach Beat Tennessee, 28-22
1983 Gator Lost to Florida, 14-6
1984 Freedom Beat Texas, 55-17
1985 Rose Lost to UCLA, 45-28
1986 Holiday Beat San Diego State, 39-38
1987 Holiday Beat Wyoming, 20-17
1988 Peach Lost to North Carolina State, 28-23
1990 Rose Lost to Washington, 46-34
1991 Holiday Tied with BYU, 13-13
1993 Alamo Lost to California, 37-3
1995 Sun Beat Washington, 38-18
1996 Alamo Beat Texas Tech, 27-0
1997 Sun Lost to Arizona State, 17-7
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