Tiger Hawk Born 30 Years Ago

By John Campbell, TV9 Sports

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Story Created: Dec 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM CST

Story Updated: Dec 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM CST

Iowa City-When Hayden Fry arrived on the Iowa campus in December of 1978 he was looking for a new logo, a hawk that would be distinctive to the University of Iowa. He opened up a contest for students to design such a logo. Cedar Rapids artist Bill Colbert also got wind of Hayden's desire for a new design and he put pen to paper.

To sell his Tiger Hawk design to Hayden, Colbert put the yellow logos on some helmets and then had a meeting with Fry. By time Colbert had returned to Cedar Rapids, Fry had decided the Tiger Hawk was the logo he was looking for.

Thirty years later the Tiger Hawk is universally associated with the University of Iowa and can be found on almost anything and everything in the Hawkeye state.

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