Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national level, the Democratic Party proved in the 1956 election that it has great grass-roots strength. Items: the slightly strengthened congressional position, the successful battle for at least 15 statehouses. the increase in the number of state legislators in such Republican strongholds as South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, Oregon and California. The waning influence of its old-line, patronage-powered machines in the big cities, notably Chicago and New York, was offset by the work of aggressive "new look" (i.e., post-Truman) volunteers in California, Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Pennsylvania...
...year-end vacation. Pasadena's Rose Bowl seemed just the place. "We've talked it all over," said Coach Murray Warmath, "and if we're good enough, we'd like to go." The unbeaten Gophers figured to be more than good enough to beat Iowa's corn-fed Hawkeyes and earn the trip to California...
...There's been no Rose Bowl talk at Iowa," said the Hawkeyes' Coach Forest Evashevski. The "One Man Gang" who led Michigan's bruising prewar powerhouses in 1939-40 had yet to win a football game in Minneapolis-either as Michigan player or Iowa coach. So he forgot about New Year's Day and concentrated on the task at hand. "I'll be taping my players all night," he added as he brooded over the long roster of Iowa casualties...
Chagrined, the Gophers ground their way back. Half a dozen times they pounded into Iowa territory; half a dozen times they bumbled away the ball game. Minnesota passes that would have made the difference were intercepted. Up front, Iowa's furious linemen jolted Gopher ball carriers into disastrous fumbles. For all their errors, the Gophers had the edge in first downs, 16-11, in rushing yardage, 232-181, in passing yardage, 71-32. But when the gun ended the game, they were behind in the only statistics that count. The score: Iowa 7. Minnesota...
California-Bred. Now it was proper for Iowa to think of Pasadena. But when word came in from the West, the Hawkeyes learned that they faced no vacation. Out in San Francisco, Oregon State's Beavers skinned past Stanford's favored Indians, 20-19. Only last month, the Beavers had almost chewed up Iowa before losing a close one, 14-13. Last week they demonstrated that they had learned how to come from behind in the clutch...