What was your first experience with Iowa State sports?

[VeloClone]

First game at Cyclone Stadium

http://cyclones.com/news/2007/9/7/1208773.aspx

Iowa State 39
UNI 38

Jeff Shudak instantly became my favorite player.

I remember most of that game. My brother and I took our wives to the game and in the 4th quarter everyone but me wanted to go. Since my brother drove I really had no choice. My brother had to go to the bathroom so we said we would meet him by the car. We no more than got out of the gate and we heard a roar. We heard another as we got to the car. We sat there for several minutes waiting for my brother hearing more good things happening but didn't know what because he had the car keys so we couldn't even listen on the radio. He came out after the game. He heard the first comeback score when he was in the bathroom and went back in and watched the rest of the game.

I was so mad.

 

[cycloner29]

Fall of '84 lots A1 & B3 first home football game. Keg mobile, cattle tank with 8 kegs in it, beer bongs... forgot who we played, don't even remember if I made it into the game.

 

[Go2Guy]

1974 NCAA wrestling tourney at Hilton when I was 12

Awesome - we hosted the NCAA ?? Was Gable still on the team, or did he graduate in '73; how about Taylor??

 

[Go2Guy]

Clyde Williams late Sept. '74. Don't remember much about that win over BYU but thought it was pretty cool to see the students pass co-eds to up to us on the top row.

Alwyas loved hearing the innovative ways you guys smuggled Pony Kegs into the stadium. And passing up Coeds - I think that is banned nowadays?

 

[wgleason]

Awesome - we hosted the NCAA ?? Was Gable still on the team, or did he graduate in '73; how about Taylor??

Nope, just missed them. I think Al Nacin place top 3 and couple other all-Americans. I was 12 and hanging with my HS & ISU brothers.

 

[LarryISU]

My freshman year at ISU, 1972. Prior to that I didn't pay attention to college sports at all. I had student season tickets to football, basketball and wrestling. Wrestling was winning National Championships. Football had George Amundson, Merv Krakau, Matt Blair. Playing at Clyde Williams. Basketball was pretty bad but still fun to go. We always seemed to have at least one decent player, like Hercle Ivy, although I'm not sure if he was there yet in 1972..

 

[cyfan50438]

Lafester Rhodes pouring in 56 pts against Iowa. That game was probably the best basketball game between two teams in a long time IMO.

 

[NodawayRiverClone]

In late winter 1965 or 66, our high school wrestling coach (a UNI guy) got as many of the wrestling squad as he could to take a trip to an Iowa State meet in Ames. The Armory was nearly full and the pounding on the bleachers was deafening. I have no idea who ISU smashed.

 

[I-stateTheTruth]

Fall, 1972. My brother walked on and played freshman football for ISU in Johnny Majors' last season (freshmen weren't eligible to play in regular "varsity" competition). We watched him play safety vs. Nebraska. From then on, I was a Cyclone.

 

[madguy30]

Iowa basketball game in Hilton 1991. I was just a kid so don't recall all except the place going bonkers when Justice went down for a dunk.

Went to a couple of other games during Tinsley's senior year.

Football I remember going to a UNI/ISU game one year...ISU actually won. I just remember it was hot. I really haven't seen anything all too exciting in Jack Trice outside of that weird CO game in '07 when the ref made the last call and bolted off the field, haha.

I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of people there in '15 for TCU considering the product on the field. The level of support vs. success was amazing.

 

[dmdom]

I don't know the years. 1st basketball Dean Uthoff was hooping. Not a soul in the balcony. Football Dwayne Crutchfield was playing. My dad entered me in some guess the final score pool. I won and bought a Cyclone shirt before leaving the stadium.

 

[JP4CY]

Nick Nurse basketball camp, probably around ‘93.
Fred, Julius, Loren, and Nick were the 4 coaches. Everyone wanted Fred as theirs. I had Julius. Hilarious dude, fun coach. Someone asked him if he was going to go back to where he was from (Czechoslovakia) when he’s done with college. He’s basically said no effing way. Kid asked why not. Julo had some great comeback about if you’d ever been there you’d know why.

 

[ianoconnor]

My first game was the opener of the 2005 season my freshman year (Illinois State). But my first vivid memory is of the 23-3 win over Iowa the next week and subsequent rushing of the field.

 

[Cycsk]

We had friends who were original donors for the construction of Hilton, so they had seats in the first row. We used those for about four or five games a year. Different times.

It must have been an amazing feeling to transition from the armory to Hilton. Or Williams Field to Cyclone Stadium. Anybody who experienced it want to comment on what that was like?

 

[Cycsk]

The Armory was nearly full and the pounding on the bleachers was deafening.

We need to start pounding on the metal bleachers in the south endzone. That has the potential to be quite intimidating. Fans on that end could have done more to help the team at the end of games, such when TOE and K-State had the ball on that end and won.

 

[surly]

Following Clay and the Dirty Thirty in the Big Peach section. I was very young.

 

[CyInDFW]

I started going to Football and Basketball games with my uncle and dad back around 1980 or 81. My uncle is an ISU grad and took us to games as kids all the time. Remember watching Barry Stevens play and he was there in 81. Great memories. Coldest I've ever been in my life was as a kid in the early 80's at an ISU football game after a morning of pheasant hunting. Nearly froze to death.

Coldest I've ever been at an ISU game was the Colorado blizzard game. Weather was so bad the attendance was under 2500. The gates were opened and it was a "if you can make here, you get in" game. They ran snow removal over the old astroturf all night to keep it clear. The CU team stayed in Ankeny and the bus driver didn't want to make the trip up to Ames in the morning but he was overruled. We lost, but it was a close one. I remember we were ahead at half and they came back in the third I believe to take the lead and no one scored in the 4th. I was was on of the three drunk guys in a snow suits with swim trunks and a Hawaiian shirt over them.

 

[CyInDFW]

We need to start pounding on the metal bleachers in the south endzone. That has the potential to be quite intimidating. Fans on that end could have done more to help the team at the end of games, such when TOE and K-State had the ball on that end and won.

If I remember correctly, and I may be wrong, but I thought that was part of the reason the bleachers were made that way. To give the Seattle Seahawks style noise to the South endzone. Anyone here able to verify that or am I completely mistaken?

 

[CyInDFW]

Alwyas loved hearing the innovative ways you guys smuggled Pony Kegs into the stadium. And passing up Coeds - I think that is banned nowadays?

They used to pass the coeds up after moving to JTS but at some point it was stopped.

 

[Cycsk]

If I remember correctly, and I may be wrong, but I thought that was part of the reason the bleachers were made that way. To give the Seattle Seahawks style noise to the South endzone. Anyone here able to verify that or am I completely mistaken?

Oh, it is true. I've heard Ben Bruns explicitly talk about how the metal bleachers in the south endzone can be used for a definite noise advantage. That idea was expressed by him during construction.