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News Quiz: Thanksgiving Football In Iowa Has A History

By IowaWatch | November 22, 2016
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Drake University Varsity Football Team, 1915. Drake University Archives and Special Collections.

University of Iowa Football Game, 1900.

Frederick W. Kent Collection, University of Iowa Library and Archives

University of Iowa Football Game, 1900.

Once again Thanksgiving weekend football is in Iowa City for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes’ Black Friday game against the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers at Kinnick Stadium on Nov. 25 and the Iowa State University Cyclones’ game the following day in Ames against the West Virginia Mountaineers.

The state of Iowa’s history of Thanksgiving football goes back quite a few years. How far? Find out in this IowaWatch news quiz that we like bringing out each Thanksgiving weekend over the past few years. Click the answers and see the old photos:

Iowa's Long Tradition of Thanksgiving Football

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