1922 Iowa Hawkeyes football team The 1922 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1922 college football season as a member of the Big Ten Conference . The team was coached by Howard Jones . Preseason . Howard Jones was in his seventh year at Iowa in 1922 , having coached the Hawkeyes to a 30 – 14 – 1 record from 1916 to 1921 . In 1919 , end Lester Belding was named All - America , and Belding , quarterback Aubrey Devine , tackle Duke Slater and fullback Fred Lohman were named All - Big Ten . In 1920 , Belding , Devine and Slater were named All - Big Ten . In 1921 , Iowa went 7 – 0 and won the Big Ten championship . Devine , Slater and fullback Gordon Locke were named All - America , and Devine , Slater , Locke , Belding , center John Heldt , guard Chester Mead and end Max Kadesky were named All - Big Ten . Devine , his brother Glenn , Slater and Belding graduated in the spring of 1922 . Iowa had a ten - game winning streak going into the 1922 season . Season . Knox . Iowa opened the 1922 season on October 7 with a game against Knox College . For the second consecutive year , the Hawkeyes crushed Knox . Final score : 61 – 0 . Yale . On October 14 , Iowa made a trip to New Haven to play Eastern powerhouse Yale . The Elis had already beaten Bates , Carnegie Tech and North Carolina by a combined score of 79 – 0 . Yale was coached by the younger brother of Iowa coach Howard Jones , Tad Jones , who had coached the Elis to a 27 – 5 record from 1916 to 1917 and 1920 to 1922 . Yale had an eleven - game home winning streak at the Yale Bowl . The Elis had never lost to a team from the West in fifty years of varsity football . In the first game between Eastern and Western teams of the college football season , Iowa dominated Yale . The Hawkeyes used only twelve men to the fourteen used by the Elis . The only scoring drive of the game began late in the first quarter when Yale punted to the Hawkeyes . An Eli foul put Iowa in the territory of the opposition . Iowa quarterback Leland Parkin led the Hawkeyes down the field . On fourth down and goal from the Yale nine , Parkin ran around the right end and dove for the end zone . He came down a foot short and crawled the rest of the way . Iowa missed the extra point , but six points ended up being enough to win the game . The Elis drove inside the Hawkeye twenty twice in the second half , but the drives ended before the Elis could score . Iowa won the game , 6 – 0 . Yale lost to a Western team for the first time ever . The Elis did not lose to another team from the West until they fell to Michigan in 1938 . The Iowa victory made front page headlines across the nation . The headline of the Chicago Sunday Tribune ran " IOWA ELEVEN SMASHES YALE " . The game was a major turning point in the battle between the East and the West for football supremacy . The use of the huddle by the Hawkeyes , an idea that was growing popular in the West , was one of the reasons Iowa was able to beat the Elis so impressively . Iowa City was home to a huge celebration on Saturday night . Seven thousand students and citizens paraded up and down the streets , shooting off rockets and dancing around bonfires . The Iowa marching band led the celebration and the crowds were compared to those who would gather in New York City on New Year ' s Eve . Illinois . Iowa returned to Iowa City for a game with Illinois on October 21 . It was the first Big Ten game of the season for both teams . Gordon Locke scored the only Hawkeye touchdown and a safety made the difference in an 8 – 7 Iowa win . The Hawkeyes had also defeated the Illini in the 1921 Big Ten opener for both teams . It was the first time Illinois had lost consecutive Big Ten openers since 1908 and 1909 . Purdue . Purdue was the opponent of Iowa on October 28 . The Boilermakers had not scored a point in their previous two games , having lost to Notre Dame and Chicago by a combined score of 32 – 0 . The Hawkeyes gave Purdue a third consecutive shutout , beating the Boilermakers 56 – 0 . It is the worst loss in 110 years of varsity football at Purdue . Gordon Locke scored two touchdowns for Iowa . Minnesota . Iowa played their homecoming game on November 11 . William Spaulding brought his first Minnesota team to Iowa City . The Gophers had suffered their first loss of the season on November 4 to Wisconsin . The Hawkeyes handed them their second loss of the season , winning 28 – 14 . Gordon Locke scored three touchdowns in the first half for Iowa . Heavy rain soaked Iowa Field and turned the dirt roads that led into Iowa City to mud . Hundreds of cars stalled on the road to Cedar Rapids and thousands of Hawkeye fans were stranded that night . Ohio State . The first game between Iowa and Ohio State was played in Columbus on November 18 . The Buckeyes became the first team since 1920 to lead the Hawkeyes , but Iowa beat Ohio State 12 – 9 . Gordon Locke rushed for 126 yards and returned three kicks for 91 yards . The Hawkeye victory ensured that the Buckeyes would suffer their first losing season since 1898 . Northwestern . Iowa played their final game of the season on November 25 against Northwestern . Glenn Thistlethwaite was in his first year as the coach of the Purple . The Hawkeyes beat Northwestern 37 – 3 to complete a second consecutive perfect season at 7 – 0 . Gordon Locke scored four touchdowns for Iowa to match his career record . Locke finished first in the Big Ten in scoring . His 72 points in conference games was a Big Ten record . Postseason . Iowa went 7 – 0 and won a second consecutive Big Ten championship . Gordon Locke was named All - America , and Locke , guard Paul Minick and tackle George Thompson were named All - Big Ten . The Hawkeyes won their first three games in 1923 to extend their winning streak to twenty games . Illinois broke the streak on October 20 when Iowa fell to the Illini in Champaign by the score of 9 – 6 . The 1923 Illinois team went 8 – 0 and won the national championship . They were led by All - American halfback Red Grange , who is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time . The twenty - game winning streak from 1920 to 1923 is the longest in Iowa history . The home unbeaten streak of the Hawkeyes reached thirty - one games before Iowa fell to Wisconsin on November 7 , 1925 , by the score of 6 – 0 .