This year's theme, "Farm to Field: 40 Years of ANF," celebrates Fry's "America Needs Farmers" program. FRYFest, the annual ...

The kickoff to the Hawkeye football season known as FRYfest returns to Coralville on Friday, August 29.This year’s FRYfest theme, Farm to Field: 40 Years of America Needs Farmers, celebrates the ...

Hayden Fry, who died Tuesday at the age of 90 after a long battle with cancer, accomplished much over his lengthy college football career, most notably at Iowa, where he coached for 20 seasons.

Hayden Fry brought a Texas-sized personality and a keen desire to win to the Iowa football program. He redesigned the uniforms, painted the visiting locker room pink and doled out wry witticisms ...

Former University of Iowa football player Malcolm Christie (right) sits among other former players during a celebration of life service for Hayden Fry, former head football coach at UNT ...

Hayden Fry called me a liar. That's not something you want to hear while covering an Iowa football news conference for The Gazette, but oddly his false remark welcomed me into the 'club.' ...

And it turned out, so did much of Iowa. “Hayden was out of the box before being out of the box became a cliche,” former Fry assistant Dan McCarney told me Tuesday. McCarney spoke not long after news ...

Hayden Fry, the Texan who revived Iowa football and became a Hawkeye State institution over two decades as a Big Ten coach, has died. He was 90. Fry's family announced through the University of ...

ERIC: PEOPLE ACROSS THE STATE AND COUNTRY ARE HONORING HAWKEYE LEGEND HAYDEN FRY. THE FOOTBALL ICON DIED TUESDAY AT THE AGE OF 90. PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DROPPING OFF ITEMS AT HIS STATUE IN CORALVILLE.

There have been two Iowa head football coaches since the 1979 season: Hayden Fry and Kirk Ferentz. Fry, who turned the program into a winner in his time from 1979 to 1998, died Tuesday at the age ...