The nickname for athletic teams at Iowa State University is "the Cyclones." The nickname for athletic teams at the University of Iowa is "the Hawkeyes."
So I made a mistake in a recent column about former U.S. Naval Academy wrestlers Lloyd Keaser and Wayne Hicks. The column said "an assistant Iowa State coach asked Hicks to work out with some 112-pound high school kid the Hawkeyes were thinking of recruiting."
It should have said an assistant Iowa State coach asked Hicks to work out with some 112-pound high school kid the Cyclones were thinking of recruiting.
Kudos and thanks to e-mailer Joe Brown for pointing out my error to me.
And good luck and best wishes to: Donna Eich and her husband, Frank, who say they have the only existing film of the complete 1958 National Football League championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants. Eich's father, James Eich, took the film of the game for the Baltimore Colts. Eich and her husband stumbled across the film several years ago. The film has no soundtrack, Eich says, but it contains all 156 plays of the game and even includes jubilant Colts fans tearing down the goal posts after the Hosses' overtime victory.
"I would like to place this film in the right hands of those who value this historical game," Eich wrote me in an e-mail. Eich is specifically looking to hear from any former Baltimore Colts who might be interested.
Personally, I think "the right hands" in this case are any hands not a.) associated in any way with anyone who has the last name of Irsay and b.) anyone in the NFL's offices. Eich said she's taken the precaution of copyrighting the film, and that a lawyer from Miles and Stockbridge has informed NFL honchos that Eich has "the exclusive rights to market, license, and sell the film as well as all or any part of [any] copyright hereto," according to Eich's e-mail.
Congrats to: C. Fraser Smith, former Sun reporter, current Sun columnist and now author of the newly published book Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland.
The Johns Hopkins University Press recently released the book, but I got a preview of the cover in February. I was at Washington College, where I had gone to witness a convocation ceremony where Gloria Richardson Dandridge would receive an honorary degree.
