Iowa State’s head football coach Matt Campbell is the reigning Big 12 coach of the year and has some optimistic Cyclone fans hoping that he can help their program reach a height that has eluded them for over one hundred years: winning a conference championship. While Iowa State has seen its share of legendary coaches make brief pitstops in Ames (Johnny Majors, Earle Bruce, and even Pop Warner himself all coached there before departing for greener pastures), arguably their most successful coach was Samuel “Clyde” Williams, who led the Cyclones to consecutive Missouri Valley championships — the only such conference championships in school history — in 1911 and 1912.
The Cy-Hawk Legacy of Clyde Williams
