1916

Coach Howard Jones

"The general feeling among students and followers of Iowa athletics is that the 1916 season was in every sense satisfactory. The State Championship, lost to Ames the year before, returned to its customary habitat after one of the greatest fights ever put up by an Iowa team. Although Iowa was ranked seventh in the Conference standing, this does not show her relative strength. The two games lost were to high-class teams, one of which has been conceded to be as great a scoring machine as has ever been assembled in the West.

"At the beginning of the year, Coach Howard Jones was confronted with the preplexing problem of building a team, handicapped by the lack of big, active men. But he set to work with the material at hand, and with a co-operative responce from the men, he welded together a team which was a real credit to Iowa and a tribute to Coach Jones' ability to instill football knowledge and a fighting spirit into the men with whom he worked. At the beginning of the season there was an abundance of fast, shifty men, who, although of more than ordinary back-field ablity, were small. Jones is primarily a line coach and a great believer in the theory that with a stone-wall line to open holes and repel the attack, a mediocre back-field man can gain ground. Coach Jones, however, got down to football fundamentals, and before the season was over had developed a number of real stars." — from the 1918 Hawkeye

Iowa vs Purdue, Oct. 21, 1916. Iowa won by a score of 24-6.

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