Shocking findings by a university researcher have revealed that the famed 1939 squad did not achieve its superhuman feats entirely on their own efforts.
New research has emerged in recent weeks indicating the 1939 Iowa football team, nicknamed the Ironmen, may have broken NCAA rules and used non-regulation equipment during their famed 6-1-1 run. A University of Iowa graduate student discovered the possible violations during unrelated research into fan behavior during the Great Depression.
"I wasn't even looking for anything like this," says sociology doctoral candidate Wendy Schreck. "I was researching Depression-era sporting crowd behavior, namely the pre-1970 existence of the so-called "Wave", in the Big Ten in the 1930s, but then I stumbled on the most amazing cache of photographs.