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Corn Monument Fan Favorite: History (1931-1940)

The Corn Monument has been a Hawkeye Engineer tradition dating back to 1919.
History of the Corn Monument 1931-1940

1931

1931 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Indiana: 0 - 0

1934

1934 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Minnesota: 12 - 48

1937

1937 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Minnesota: 10 - 35

1940

1940 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Purdue: 6 - 21

1932

1932 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Minnesota: 6 - 21

1935

1935 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Minnesota: 6 - 13

1938

1938 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Wisconsin: 13 - 31

1933

1933 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Wisconsin: 26 - 7

1936

1936 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Illinois: 0 - 0

1939

1939 Homecoming Game
Iowa vs Minnesota: 13 - 9

This corn monument features Iowa Stadium - potentially this design was to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its completion in October of 1929. Iowa Stadium would be renamed to Kinnick Stadium to honor the 1939 Heisman Trophy Winner Nile Kinnick. His Heisman Trophy Biography cites that during the 1939 season Kinnick averaged 57 minutes per game on the field and over the course of the season would be directly involved in 107 of the entire team's 130 points that season. In 1943, Nile Kinnick would be killed in action during World War II.