Floyd of Rosedale
To the winner of the Iowa-Minnesota football game goes possession of a statue of a pig named "Floyd of Rosedale."
A bet in 1935 between Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson and Iowa Governor Clyde Herring gave birth to Floyd of Rosedale. Tensions between the two state universities had been running high and a wager was made in an effort to relieve the situation.
After Iowa lost the 1935 game, Herring presented Olson with Floyd of Rosedale, a full-blooded champion pig and a brother of BlueBoy from Will Rogers' movie "State Fair". Olson gave the pig to the University of Minnesota and commissioned St. Paul sculptor Charles Brioscho to capture Floyd's image.
The result is a bronze pig 21 inches long and 15 inches high.
A bet in 1935 between Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson and Iowa Governor Clyde Herring gave birth to Floyd of Rosedale. Tensions between the two state universities had been running high and a wager was made in an effort to relieve the situation.
After Iowa lost the 1935 game, Herring presented Olson with Floyd of Rosedale, a full-blooded champion pig and a brother of BlueBoy from Will Rogers' movie "State Fair". Olson gave the pig to the University of Minnesota and commissioned St. Paul sculptor Charles Brioscho to capture Floyd's image.
The result is a bronze pig 21 inches long and 15 inches high.
Concerns about fans rushing onto the field after college football games did little to stem the tide of students at four sites Saturday. The most unusual came in Minneapolis, where about 50,000 fans of visiting Iowa came out of the stands after the Hawkeyes clinched a share of the Big Ten championship by beating Minnesota 45-21. Three arrests were made, one by campus police and two by Minneapolis police. Fans toppled one goal post but were prevented from taking the second down. The goal post had to be replaced for a late Saturday small-college game.
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Minnesota coach Glen Mason didn't seem to mind the postgame celebration by opposing fans.
"They won a Big Ten championship," Mason told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "That doesn't happen every day. Heck, they won them (the goal posts). They deserve them. Take them home."
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Minnesota coach Glen Mason didn't seem to mind the postgame celebration by opposing fans.
"They won a Big Ten championship," Mason told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "That doesn't happen every day. Heck, they won them (the goal posts). They deserve them. Take them home."
MINNEAPOLIS -- Thousands of Iowa fans stormed the Metrodome field on Saturday, tearing down a goal post and nearly carting one of the uprights out of the stadium following the visiting Hawkeyes' 45-21 win over Minnesota.
Three people were arrested on complaints of damaging property, police said.
The fans jumped the lower deck railing and massed near the Hawkeyes' bench to celebrate Iowa's unbeaten Big Ten season (8-0) and possible trip to the Rose Bowl. It appeared the crowd was starting to calm down when the public address announcer loudly urged them off the field, stating it was their "final warning."
A high-pitched squeal started emanating from the loudspeakers, prompting a handful of Iowa fans, holding their ears, to head to the stands. But the majority of the gold-clad fans swarmed the goal post behind the south end zone, and after a few tries, they tipped it over onto the artificial turf.
"That's, I believe, disrespectful," Minnesota receiver Antoine Burns said. "But they came out with a good victory. They deserve everything they get."
The crowd began moving toward the north end, but the other goal post was surrounded by a half-dozen uniformed officers and security guards. After taking a few laps around the field, a few fans took an upright into the stadium concourse, but they stopped short of taking it out of the stadium.
With the field finally cleared, Metrodome crews began assembling a replacement goal post for a small-college football game scheduled for later in the night between Concordia-St. Paul and Southwest State. The broken goal post lay in several pieces on the other end of the field.
The overflow Metrodome crowd of 65,184 was at least half-filled with Hawkeyes fans, and the chants of "Let's go Hawks!" began well before the opening kickoff.
"I've never seen 25,000 of the opposing team's fans at a home game," Gophers quarterback Asad Abdul-Khaliq said. "That just shows the type of team they've had. If I was an Iowa fan, I'd go anywhere, too. They've proven that they're worthy of it."
There was no immediate word on any possible arrests.
Three people were arrested on complaints of damaging property, police said.
The fans jumped the lower deck railing and massed near the Hawkeyes' bench to celebrate Iowa's unbeaten Big Ten season (8-0) and possible trip to the Rose Bowl. It appeared the crowd was starting to calm down when the public address announcer loudly urged them off the field, stating it was their "final warning."
A high-pitched squeal started emanating from the loudspeakers, prompting a handful of Iowa fans, holding their ears, to head to the stands. But the majority of the gold-clad fans swarmed the goal post behind the south end zone, and after a few tries, they tipped it over onto the artificial turf.
"That's, I believe, disrespectful," Minnesota receiver Antoine Burns said. "But they came out with a good victory. They deserve everything they get."
The crowd began moving toward the north end, but the other goal post was surrounded by a half-dozen uniformed officers and security guards. After taking a few laps around the field, a few fans took an upright into the stadium concourse, but they stopped short of taking it out of the stadium.
With the field finally cleared, Metrodome crews began assembling a replacement goal post for a small-college football game scheduled for later in the night between Concordia-St. Paul and Southwest State. The broken goal post lay in several pieces on the other end of the field.
The overflow Metrodome crowd of 65,184 was at least half-filled with Hawkeyes fans, and the chants of "Let's go Hawks!" began well before the opening kickoff.
"I've never seen 25,000 of the opposing team's fans at a home game," Gophers quarterback Asad Abdul-Khaliq said. "That just shows the type of team they've had. If I was an Iowa fan, I'd go anywhere, too. They've proven that they're worthy of it."
There was no immediate word on any possible arrests.
