Iowa couldn’t drag itself out of the conference
cellar in 1944, either. The only remarkable thing about the year was
that Forest Evashevski
was on campus at the time, quarterbacking for the Navy’s Pre-Flight
School football team and training pilots in hand-to-hand combat.
Coach Madigan resigned at the end of the year and Iowa's second interim
coach, Clem Crowe, an assistant at Notre Dame, was hired.