What was your first experience with Iowa State sports?

[beentherebefore]

I also attended the first Trice game in 1975 - and the earlier posters were spot on. For early September it was very cold, and that north wind just took your breath away. Lots of folks watching from the edges of the tunnels.

Basketball in those days was Hercle Ivy shooting lots of jump shots, and maybe 5,000 in Hilton if it was a big game. They finished 3-24. Art Johnson, too.....great rebounder, but his shooting range was about 5 feet and closer. Ken Trickey was the coach that year, when he quit to go to Oral Roberts I was the first reporter to interview him. (Ron Maly of the DM Rag - an avowed hok - was sitting and waiting to get in, boy did he give me a dirty look!) Trickey was putting his golf clubs in a traveling bag, and you could tell he was dying to get out of there. Lynn Nance took his place.

Back then a family could just decide to head to Ames and not really stand in line to buy really good seats from the ticket office for games at Hilton. Most of the time there were seats available in the lower bowl. I know it did not cost very much. 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.

 

[mschmitty17]

I definitely watched games before this, but I believe the first football game I went to was Baylor in 2005. Stevie Hicks was hurt, so Greg Coleman was our starting RB. I remember he fumbled at the 1 yard line and RJ Sumrall fumbled later on in the game as well and we lost. It was Baylor's first ever Big 12 road win. I also remember walking back to my aunts car after the game and seeing someone get hit by a car.

I also remember watching us wreck Texas A&M that same year at my brother-in-laws house, (big-time Hawk fan) and it was just wonderful.

 

[CyInDFW]

First memory of Iowa State athletics was going to a game at Clyde Williams Field to watch ISU beat New Mexico.

Some of my favorite memories of ISU as a kid are:
-Watching ISU beat Nebraska in Linclon in '77. Remembering how eerily quiet it was walking out of the stadium full of that many people.
-Running around on the sidelines during practice while Earle Bruce was coaching (had to have been 8 or 9 yrs old).
-Rolling down the hillsides and tossing the football with friends.
-Having cap guns fired off during the introduction of Steve Stipanovich from Mizzou at Hilton after he shot himself while cleaning a gun but lied to police and said someone broke in and shot him.
-The crowd at Hilton chanting "sit down Billy" to Billy Tubbs of OU. Tubbs pointing at the scoreboard on the way to half with OU leading, then the ISU crowd chanting "Scoreboard" to Billy at the end of the game after ISU came back to win.

 

[CycloneBob]

I also attended the first Trice game in 1975 - and the earlier posters were spot on. For early September it was very cold, and that north wind just took your breath away. Lots of folks watching from the edges of the tunnels.

Basketball in those days was Hercle Ivy shooting lots of jump shots, and maybe 5,000 in Hilton if it was a big game. They finished 3-24. Art Johnson, too.....great rebounder, but his shooting range was about 5 feet and closer. Ken Trickey was the coach that year, when he quit to go to Oral Roberts I was the first reporter to interview him. (Ron Maly of the DM Rag - an avowed hok - was sitting and waiting to get in, boy did he give me a dirty look!) Trickey was putting his golf clubs in a traveling bag, and you could tell he was dying to get out of there. Lynn Nance took his place.

Ken Trickey CAME from Oral Roberts.

 

[SCyclone]

Ken Trickey CAME from Oral Roberts.

Yeah, that's right - he went to Oklahoma City University for a couple years, THEN back to ORU for 6 more seasons.

 

[laminak]

Unfortunately I grew up Hawk, so my first ISU sport experience was my freshman year football game vs Tulane for Parent's Weekend in 1992.

 

[SCNCY]

My first experience was the UNLV 3OT game. I was a Freshmen at the time and my roommates family had season tickets and I got one of them.

 

[Doc]

My dad took me to a rainy game at Jack Trice against Nebraska, I think. Darren Davis returned the opening kickoff to midfield and I think things went downhill after that. Barely made it out of the lot afterwards in the muck.

 

[wgleason]

1974 NCAA wrestling tourney at Hilton when I was 12

 

[nfrine]

Three of four years I was at ISU, the Cyclones won the NCAA wrestling tourney (runner-up the other year). I can remember being in the State Gym locker room after a wrestling team workout (not me of course) and heard Chris Taylor ask Ben Peterson how to gain weight. Quite a time...Peterson, Gable, Jean, Taylor, Coach Nichols.

 

[VeloClone]

Listening to Iowa State games on the radio early 1980's including Alex Giffords taking down Iowa for the third year in a row and Fry saying he was going to go to Giffords' graduation.

 

[CyberJJJ]

1977 or 1978 Peach Bowl on TV with Dexter Green at running back. My older brother was in his first year as a student at ISU. My first experience at a game in Hilton was way back in the Ron Falenschek days when they played Missouri and a bunch of people had cap guns because Stipanovich had the issue shooting himself.

 

[t-noah]

Somehow I remember a guy named Eppie Barney, mid 60's, and Clay Stapleton, for football; and another guy named Don Smith, basketball. Both pretty darned good.

 

[VeloClone]

Freshman year, 1975; I attended the very first game at the Jack, vs Air Force.
Very windy day, from the North EndZone; the AF kicker made a 63 (?) yarder right before half ended. I think it's still the longest FG in the Jack - correct?

Growing up in IowaCity, and attending many games in Kinnick, Iowa State Stadium was a dump - just a wind tunnel in the middle of nothing and not loud.

It was 62 yards and yes it is still the stadium record although Mason Crosby always seemed to be on a mission to break it.

 

[Rabbuk]

fred's first year was my first year at ISU. Before that I didn't really have a team I rooted for collegiately.

 

[CTTB78]

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.

 

[CycloneNorth]

2008. My freshman year watched a Gene Chizik led team beat Kent State (I had a lab over the opener against SDSU).

Rest of the season was a bit disappointing.

 

[Cybball37]

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.

 

[dunar]

Against OU at Jack Trice (or at the time, Cyclone Stadium), 1986, I was 8 or 9. It rained and we got whooped. Got to see the Boz and his blue mohawk(s) in person and watched fans chuck oranges at OU coming out of the locker room after half. My dad took me down in front of the Olsen building, we stood by the statue of Cy. Anyone know where that statue is now??? I remember riding the bus to a laundromat after the game to dry our clothes and then to the mall where my mom was waiting.

 

[gipper2001]

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.