Summary
"Perhaps the fear of the fundraisers could be that Jack Trice was Black - rlowa State's first Black athlete, over 50 years ago when it took real guts to enter the White world of football stadiums," Sohn wrote in the student paper. The Iowa State Black student organization published an article in its newsletter Uhuru! on Sept. 29,1995, showing that Catt used racist rhetoric in fighting for women's rights. In 1996, Adam Gold was elected student body president on a platform that included renaming Cyclone Stadium for Jack Trice and took his mandate to the administration.
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Field of Glory
STATE GYM on Iowa State University's campus was all but mothballed by the winter of 1973, when a tutor named Alan Beals wandered through and-spied what looked like a bronze plaque on a wall in the corner. It was shrouded in dirt and bird droppings. Some cleanup was required before an inscription was revealed:
IN MEMORY OF JACK TRICE, WHO DIED OCTOBER 8, 1923 OF INJURIES RECEIVED EM THE AMES-MINNESOTA FOOTBALL GAMEBeals was...See the full content of this document
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