1927

Iowa's inability to schedule its share of home games with other conference teams became an issue as high up as the university president's office.

November 5
Hawkeye fans who returned to Iowa City for the university’s 16th annual Homecoming could celebrate the improvement of the roads in the area, if not the outcome of the game. Illinois bested Iowa 14-0, but, as the University of Iowa News Bulletin expressed it, “the best news for Homecoming travelers is the official announcement that paving is now fully completed on the Johnson county section of federal highway No. 32, and on all of that section of No. 161 which lies between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids.” Furthermore, only 12 miles of dirt road remained between Iowa City and Des Moines; gravel and pavement had been put down on the rest of the highway.

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