Moments of Impact: Injury, Racialized Memory, and Reconciliation in College Football

215 Pages·2016·29.973 MB·English

by  Jaime Schultz

MOMENTS OF IMPACT

INJURY, RACIALIZED MEMORY,
AND RECONCILIATION IN
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
JAIME SCHULTZ
© 2016 by Jaime Schultz
Acknowledgments for the use of previously
published material appear on page xiii, which
constitutes an extension of the copyright page.
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Schultz, Jaime.
Title: Moments of impact: injury, racialized memory,
and reconciliation in college football / Jaime Schultz.
Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
[2016] | Includes bibliographical references and
index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015020835
ISBN 9780803245785 (cloth: alk. paper)
ISBN 9780803285033 (epub)
ISBN 9780803285040 (mobi)
ISBN 9780803285057 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: African American football players—
Iowa— History—2 0th century. | Iowa State
University— Football— History— 20th century. |
Drake University— Football— History— 20th cen-
tury. | Collective memory— Social aspects— Iowa.
| Memorialization— Social aspects— Iowa. | Rac-
ism in sports— United States— History— 20th cen-
tury. | Simmons, Ozzie, 1914– 2001. | Trice, Jack,
1902– 1923. | Bright, Johnny, 1930– 1983.

Classification: LCC GV959.52.I6 S35 2016 | DDC
796.332/6309777— dc23 LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015020835
Set in Dante MT by M. Scheer.
For my parents, Robert Gordon Schultz and Deborah Tauber Schultz

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi
Introduction: Telling Exceptional Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1. Resurrecting Jack Trice: Life, Death,
and the Campaign for Jack Trice Stadium . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
2. Iowa State University’s Commemorative Balancing Act:
Jack Trice Stadium and Carrie Chapman Catt Hall, 1995– 97 . . . .53
3. Ozzie Simmons, Floyd of Rosedale,
and a Tale of Two Governors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
4. Photographic Memory and
the Johnny Bright Incident of 1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Afterword: Coming to Terms with the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Jack Trice in East Technical High School letterman’s sweater . 24
2. Jack Trice in Iowa State uniform, 1923 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
3. Johnny Behm, Jack Trice, M. Behm, and William Nave, 1923. . 28
4. Jack Trice’s memorial service, October 9, 1923 . . . . . . . . . . .31
5. Jack Trice’s “last letter” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
6. Jack Trice memorial plaque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
7. “Who Paid the Most?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
8. Jack Trice statue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
9. Jack Trice memorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
10. Jack Trice memorial, panel 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
11. Jack Trice memorial, panel 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
12. Jack Trice memorial, panel 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
13. Jack Trice memorial, panel 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
14. Floyd of Rosedale trophy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
15. Ozzie Simmons in Hawkeyes uniform . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
16. Ozzie Simmons running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
17. Hampshire Swine Record Association certificate. . . . . . . . 90
18. Governor Clyde Herring delivers Floyd of Rosedale, 1935 . . . .91
19. Governor Floyd B. Olson with Governor Clyde Herring . . . 92