The year is 1926 and Iowa State is riding a two game win streak in the MVIAA with wins over Drake (13-7) and Kansas State (3-2). Noel Workman, in his first year of coaching at Iowa State, is coaching against William H. Spaulding.
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The two coaches coached for different schools for the 1923 season, for Simpson and Minnesota respectively, so they both got to know who Jack Trice was. I note this, as the Cyclones have the second black athlete in school history on their roster, Holloway Smith1.