9-9-2000 against UNLV. I remember we won pretty handily. We bought hillside but was able to sit in good seats since there was no one in the corner sections. Sure a different atmosphere now compared to then.
Pretty brutal 63-20 loss in Ames to Iowa, the Tim Dwight show. I actually grew up an Iowa fan and had some mixed emotions having just been at ISU for a few weeks as a freshman, still liked Iowa at the time but didn't like my "new" team getting blown out. By the next year when ISU won in '98 I was 100% Cyclone.
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Wow, that looks like it would have been South Dakota State. Amazing. People's first games on here now span 59 years.
Fall '82 - watched ISU beat Kent St and a running back by the name of Harold Brown had a career day if I remember correctly. Set in the north end zone bleachers and walked up the path to the Olsen Building next to John Arnaud at the end of the game. That was a big deal as he was dating a girl from my hometown at the time, eventually Austen's mom.
2001....Freshman at ISU ..... Just had to look up the score and who we played. It looks like I had too good of a time tailgating.
I remember always going to Hawk games as a kid...They always lost...I always wanted to go to an ISU game ...Finally got my chance in the early 80s as I watched the Clones beat an over-matched Colorado State team. I became a fan that day...If I remember, Donnie Duncan's boys started quick that season but pretty much fell off the face of the earth losing the last 5 games that year.
I was at both. Don't remember either game.
I do recall that in 1968 or 1969 there was a story in the DSM rag about and a photo of an Oklahoma dentist who attended the game and had SOONERS in red etched into his front teeth.
1966 - Whoever we played as the fist game that year (was a loss). Haven't missed very many since.
Wow, wish you could make it to JT and experience a game with CPR at the helm. It's amazing to to read everyone's mermories and thoiughts.
9/5/98- Loss to TCU. Do not remember any of it, but I do remember everything about the following week as I was sitting with my Grandparents (Hawk Alums) watching us destroy the Hawks.
1983 vs. Iowa.
Exciting just for the experience itself, but I wish I could claim a better "First Game" result :sad:
Maybe I could start lying about it. :wideeyed:
Exciting just for the experience itself, but I wish I could claim a better "First Game" result :sad:
Maybe I could start lying about it. :wideeyed:
One of our Twin Cities alumni is Class of '48 and has season tickets and drives down to all the games. I like when he shows up at alumni events so I don't have to be the oldest guy there! :smile:
October, 1970, I was a senior in high school and came up from Ft. Madison for the Oklahoma game. We jumped out to a big lead, the place was going nuts, and OU came back and won 29-28. Good game!
That 38-10 Bowling Green win was '79. So either your year is off or the specific game wasn't the first one.
(Sorry to trod on your memories just to refute something:sad
September 20, 1997 versus Iowa. I drove to Ames with a die hard Iowa State fan friend in high school. Turns out his family had had tickets for 20+ years so they were pretty good. Got to see Iowa trounce us 63-20... At the time I was, gasp, and Iowa fan so it didn't sting too much. I converted shortly thereafter when I decided to go to ISU.
