Has the university of Iowa football team ever won a national championship?

Answer 1

The answer is YES! And the University of Iowa Hawkeyes are four times football National Champions.

College Football National Champions were selected beginning in 1869 with Princeton and Rutgers being selected. Princeton was selected in 1870. No selection was made in 1871 (and that is the only year without a selection). The original three, and only at the time, selecting organizations were Billingsley, Parke Davis, and National Championship Foundation. In 1884 Helms (of Helms Bakery) was added to the selectors. In 1885 Houlgate was added. Football Research and Boand joined in 1919 to make a total of seven selectors. AP became a selector in 1936, UPI in 1950, and Football Writers of America in 1954; and there were others added and dropped.

Of the old selectors, Parke Davis dropped out in 1934, Houlgate in 1950, Boand in 1957, Helms in 1976, Football Research in 1992, National Championship Foundation in 2002, and Billingsley (from 1869) and Football Writers of America (from 1954) are still selecting National Champions.

Youngsters may not be familiar with the Football Writers of America but they were, and are, as the name implies, sports writers of the national newspapers of the USA.

For 1921 and 1922, Iowa was selected as National Champion by Billingsley (each year), and Parke Davis selected Iowa also in 1921.

For 1956, Football Research selected Iowa as National Champion, along with selections by others of Georgia, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

For 1958, the Football Writers of America, ranked the Iowa Hawkeyes as #1 and National Champions. The trophy rests not far from Nile Kinnick's Heisman won in 1939, in the recently opened Iowa Athletic Museum.

Its been a while but there is always next year. RMM.

Football programs from Iowa's national championship teams are rare

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Answer 2

Yes, the NCAA recognizes one national title for Iowa. http://www.ncaa.com/history/football-fbs.html The year was 1958. That year the LSU Tigers played a schedule based on racism (white opponents only) and went 11-0. LSU squeaked by their bowl opponent 7-0 playing basically a home game in the Sugar Bowl played in Lousiana. Iowa played an integrated (much more difficult) schedule going 8-1-1, destroying California in the Rose Bowl (played in CA, aka a ROAD game) the score, 38-12. Iowa also set or tied 7 Rose Bowl records. Iowa was clearly the best team in the country in 1958 and was granted the National Title Trophy granted to the National Champion awarded by the "FWAA" the most respected and recognized football organization in the USA at the time. If LSU as an institution did not practice and preach racism and actually played Iowa, they would have been beaten by a large margin.

Answer 3

The only conference championships that Iowa State has won in football came in 1911 and 1912 when they were Missouri Valley Conference co-champions.