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Hayden Fry, a hall of fame football coach who revived the University of Iowa’s flagging program, leading the team to three Big Ten championships and three Rose Bowls during his 20-year career there, died on Dec. 17. He was 90.
His family announced his death in a statement but did not say where he died. He had been treated for prostate cancer since the late 1990s.
Fry had been head football coach at Southern Methodist University and then North Texas University for nearly two decades when he joined Iowa before the 1979 season; he was hired by Iowa’s athletic director, Bump Elliott, who died this month.