Under the Mid-field Tiger Hawk
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What's the punchline?
Tell me there was a Hawkeye football player from the 50's named Barry Middlefield
Tell me there was a Hawkeye football player from the 50's named Barry Middlefield
In a somewhat related story, there's also something buried under midcourt at CHA...and by under midcourt, I mean under the concrete base floor. Only a few of us know about it.
No punchline. A former player died this past summer and requested to be buried in Kinnick. A person was able to get into the stadium when they were working on the new surface. His ashes were spread in the ground and covered up at mid-field. He was a player from the 1970's and his name is familiar to Hawkeye football fans.
There's also the legend about dead horses or mules buried in the North (?) endzone ...
Actually, Bob Elliott is a great guess, but incorrect.
The ashes belong to the late Tyrone Dye!
I spread my Dad's ashes in Busch Stadium. We went to a ballgame on the first Father's Day after he passed. Happened to be camera day when they let folks down on the field prior to the game.
OMG. Ty Dye and I were both freshman living in Hillcrest. I remember when he ripped a drinking fountain off the wall just to show he could do it.
Growing up in Iowa City, I crossed paths often with Ty Dye while he was a player (I was probably in 2nd-4th grade) and many times thereafter for about a decade. My friends and I would bump into him at the field house (the athletic building, not the bar) or around town on a regular basis in the years after his playing days. He would always engage us in conversation about the sports we were playing, and eventually every conversation ended with him asking us (and then telling us to) if we were behaving at home, and paying attention/doing well in school? Always a very nice and respectful man.
