Iowa Playback: Player of game, what went right and wrong, etc.
A quick look back at Iowa’s loss to Nebraska.
Archive for November, 2011
Notes on Coker, Bernstine, Prater and injuries
Marcus Coker is now No. 4 on the Iowa single-season rushing list.
Video: James Morris, Marvin McNutt talk about the loss
The linebacker and receiver talk about the Hawkeyes’ 20-7 loss against Nebraska during postgame interviews.
McCaffery tries to shake team out of slump
IOWA CITY, Ia. — Late in the first half of Wednesday’s loss to Campbell, Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery kicked the scorer’s table in frustration. He slammed a clipboard during a second-half timeout. When freshman Josh Oglesby passed on an open look at a 3-pointer and later threw a behind-the-back pass out of bounds, McCaffery [...]
Black-and-blue Hawkeyes fall against Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. – Black Friday turned into black-and-blue Friday for the Hawkeyes, who were pushed, shoved and left broken in the first-ever Heroes Game at Memorial Stadium. No. 22 Nebraska beat Iowa 20-7 in the inaugural game as Big Ten rivals. “It was a Big Ten football game; physical on both sides of the ball,” [...]
Battered, battering Burkhead deflates Iowa hopes
Lincoln, Neb. — Iowa’s defense figured out how to stop Nebraska running back Rex Burkhead on his 38th carry of the game Friday. It was the other 37 that caused the problem. Nebraska’s bruising running back started the week with his foot in a boot, sitting out Monday’s practice. Burkhead finished the week with a [...]
Time of possession hurts Hawkeyes, helps Cornhuskers
LINCOLN, Neb. – Broderick Binns looked forward to getting on the field for the first time at Memorial Stadium. It was his inability to get off of it that ultimately doomed the Iowa Hawkeyes. Nebraska controlled the ball and the clock, wearing down Iowa’s defense and keeping the ball out of the Hawkeyes’ hands on [...]
Hawkeyes’ new rivalry with Nebraska begins with loss
Lincoln, Neb. – Look at it this way, Iowa fans who might be frustrated after Black Friday’s loss in the inaugural Big Ten Conference football game against newbie Nebraska: The search party has more than a month to locate Iowa’s offensive mojo. It’s obviously too late to do anything about what happened during the 20-7 [...]
Photos: Hawkeyes-Cornhuskers action in 2011
The Iowa Hawkeyes and Nebraska Cornhuskers played their first game against each as Big Ten Conference opponents on Nov. 25, 2011.
Vignettes: Tailgating fans have their fun before the game
LINCOLN, Neb. – In July 2010, Pat Hanson’s family moved into a lake house at Okoboji. Neighbor Margo Sievers noticed one thing immediately — and painfully. “I saw that ugly red ‘N’ at their house,” said Sievers, of Rembrandt. The lake-mates and families became fast friends. And the water-bordering war of college football loyalties began. [...]
