By Jim Scott
May 13, 2021 | 11:50 AM
IOWA CITY, Iowa â Jerry Burns, head football coach at the University of Iowa from 1961-65, has passed. He was 94. Services are pending.
Burns, a native of Detroit, served as an Iowa assistant football coach under Forest Evashevski from 1954-60. He served as Iowaâs head football coach from 1961-65. As a member of the Hawkeye coaching staff Burns was a part of three Big Ten Conference championship teams and two Rose Bowl victories.
The Hawkeyes posted a 9-1 record in 1956, winning the Big Ten with a 5-1 mark. Iowa ended the season with a 35-19 win over Oregon State in the Rose Bowl. Iowa posted an 8-1-1 record in 1958 to again win the Big Ten title, closing the season with a 38-12 Rose Bowl win over California.
His Iowa Coaching experience was particularly interesting (from Wikipedia). before he continued the Packers and then Bud Grant s Vikes reign of terror over the Lions.
Burns served seven total years as an assistant coach to Evashevski.[3] As part of a deal with Iowa Athletic Board, Evy was appointed Iowa s athletic director and agreed to appoint his successor as head football coach at Iowa. Evy appointed Burns to succeed him, and Burns became Iowa s 20th head football coach beginning with the 1961 season. He was 34 years old.[4]
Before his first game as a college head coach, his 1961 Hawkeye team was named as the preseason number one team in the nation in the AP Poll.[4] Iowa defended their ranking by winning their first four games in 1961, but then the Hawks hit a slide, losing their next four. In their final game of the year, the Hawkeyes defeated Notre Dame, 42–21.[5] It was Iowa s fifth win in six years over the Irish.[5] Iowa finished the season 5–4, their last
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Former Iowa coach Jerry Burns dies at 94
Former Iowa football coach Jerry Burns has died at the age of 94.
Burns served as an Iowa assistant football coach under Forest Evashevski from 1954-60. He served as Iowa’s head football coach from 1961-65. As a member of the Hawkeye coaching staff Burns was a part of three Big Ten Conference championship teams and two Rose Bowl victories.
The Hawkeyes posted a 9-1 record in 1956, winning the Big Ten with a 5-1 mark. Iowa ended the season with a 35-19 win over Oregon State in the Rose Bowl. Iowa posted an 8-1-1 record in 1958 to again win the Big Ten title, closing the season with a 38-12 Rose Bowl win over California.
Richard J. "Dick" Burns Sr. March 31, 1940 - December 27, 2020 Aledo - Richard J. "Dick" Burns Sr. age 80 of Aledo, Illinois died Sunday December 27, 2020 at Genesis East in Davenport, Iowa. A Pri