1903

"The football season of 1903 opened on Iowa Field in a driving rainstorm, with a field covered with mud. In the second game practically the same conditions were present, and the third game was played on a grass field partly in sunshine and partly in rain, so that from the three opening games it was impossible to judge of the merits of the team with any degree of accuracy. But the fourth game was played under ideal conditions for football and in spite of the many predictions that Drake, with her heavy line, would whip Iowa, she was defeated by a goodly score, and so hopes ran high, only to be dashed to the ground the next week, when Iowa was unmercifully beaten by Minnesota. So it was to the end of the season. The playing of the team was erratic in the extreme." — adapted from the 1905 Hawkeye

February
Coach Alden Knipe resigned his posts at Iowa. In addition to being the football coach and the school’s first athletic director, he was also the first director of music at Iowa.