1960

Iowa leaving for it's game against Minnesota.

February 24
Brechler resigned has 14-year reign as Iowa’s athletic director to become commissioner of the Skyline Conference.

June 9
Evashevski, the man who said he wouldn’t grow old coaching, took over duties as athletic director. It was understood that Evy would coach the team through the 1960 season and then relinquish that job to the man he would choose as his successor.

October 15
The football program revealed some Hawkeye hobbies: Don Ferrell, pigeon raising; George Harrell, chess; Sammie Harris, watching “Huckleberry Hound” on TV; Al Hinton, drawing and painting; Wilburn Hollis, water skiing; Earl McQuiston, reading and music; Chester Williams, poetry and jazz; and Mike McDonald, “girls and more girls.”

October 22
Homecoming crowds not only enjoyed Iowa’s 21-14 victory over Purdue, but another milestone. For the first time in UI history, Iowa was ranked No. 1 in the nation by both wire service polls.

October 29
Iowa defeated the Kansas Jayhawks, 21-7. It was the 71st straight game in which Iowa got on the scoreboard, the longest active streak in the country. Among Big Ten teams, Michigan State had the second longest record, having gone 17 games without being shut out.

November 5
Iowa went to Minnesota to face the arch-rival Gophers. Though the Hawkeyes entered the game rated No. 1 in the nation for the third consecutive week, the Gophers were No. 2 and, on that day, they tried harder. Minnesota beat Iowa, 27-10.

November 12
Evy coached his last home game, defeating Ohio State on Dad's Day, 35-12.

November 19
Playing in South Bend, the Hawkeyes skunked Notre Dame, 28-0, beating the Irish for the fourth time in five seasons. It was Evy's last game as a coach.

During his nine years of coaching at Iowa, Forest Evashevski won Coach of the Year honors at the end of four seasons, compiled a 52-27-4 record, and won two outright conference titles and two Rose Bowls. In 1960, Iowa share the Big Ten championship with Minnesota.

December 1
Jerry Burns, an assistant on Evy's staff since 1953, took over his duties as head football coach, having been recommended for the position by Evashevski himself.

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