71 of their 73 meetings are on file: they first met in 1894, and the earliest on file is 1895; officially, Iowa leads 48–25; as played, 48–23 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Iowa 7–3. The winner takes home the Cy-Hawk Trophy. Iowa holds it. The NCAA vacated Iowa’s win (2023); it doesn’t count officially. This page counts every game as it was played. Share
Who holds it comes from the games on file: the winner of the latest regular-season meeting (bowl rematches aren’t played for it); a tie leaves it with the holder (the usual rule; the article doesn’t say). From Wikipedia’s list of rivalry games and the rivalry’s article (CC BY-SA). More on the Cy-Hawk Trophy.
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Iowa’s side (Hawley 2–1 against Williams). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Iowa Iowa StateTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
1904 · Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, Oct 31, 1904
1911 · The daily Gate City, Keokuk, Iowa, Nov 19, 1911
1919 · Evening times-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, Nov 24, 1919
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
On television
ESPN’s College GameDay has broadcast from this game twice: 2021, 2019.
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