In what year were the various sports teams created?
Men’s Sports: Baseball: 1892 Basketball: 1908 Football: 1892 Swimming: 1917 Track: 1893 Wrestling: 1916
Who played the Campanile Bells?
1899-1931: student bell-ringers 1931-1969: Ira Schroeder 1969-1971: Bruce Eberle 1971-1973; 1991-1992: Marilyn Anderson 1973-1991: Richard von Grabow 1994-present: Tin-shi Tam
The image was taken in the State Gym during the influenza epidemic of 1918. After the College Hospital exceeded capacity, patients were housed in the State Gym. Fifty-one people at Iowa State died during the epidemic.
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