Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

[UNIdad]

Just saw this in a Panther Caucus email.

https://www.library.uni.edu/collections/special-collections/university-archives/uni-homecoming/history

Anybody know any more about the parsons v. teachers game? Was it an annual part of homecoming? For how long? And did the parsons ever win?

[SteinPizza]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Just saw this in a Panther Caucus email.

https://www.library.uni.edu/collections/special-collections/university-archives/uni-homecoming/history

Anybody know any more about the parsons v. teachers game? Was it an annual part of homecoming? For how long? And did the parsons ever win?

If what now occupies the Parsons' campus and UNI played today, they'd beat us 200-0. It's pretty tough to tackle a guy who's levitating.

[UNIstudent]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Chris Parsons? Is he coming back for more unsportsmanlike penalties?

[claw]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Chris Parsons? Is he coming back for more unsportsmanlike penalties?

He finally got out of the legal system...

[UNIdad]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Enjoyed the humor. Now, any serious answers?

[I know that I'm probably just inviting more humor]

[ronfitch]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Enjoyed the humor. Now, any serious answers?

[I know that I'm probably just inviting more humor]

Eight games, 1920-29. UNI (then Iowa State Teachers College) won 4, lost 3 and had one tie, at least according to this site:

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/n/northern_iowa/opponents_records.php?teamid=2485

[UNIdad]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Eight games, 1920-29. UNI (then Iowa State Normal School) won 4, lost 3 and had one tie, at least according to this site:

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data...hp?teamid=2485

Thanks.

So, was it the Parsons School versus the Teachers School?

I was thinking it was a fun game between local parsons and local teachers.

[ronfitch]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Thanks.

So, was it the Parsons School versus the Teachers School?

I was thinking it was a fun game between local parsons and local teachers.

You're too quick, Dad ... I mistakenly ID'd UNI as ISNS in the post and edited it to ISTC within ... like a minute ... but you already quoted my mistake.

So, yeah, at that time, UNI was ISTC. They looked a bit like this (from 1926):

[UNIdad]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

You're too quick, Dad ... I mistakenly ID'd UNI as ISNS in the post and edited it to ISTC within ... like a minute ... but you already quoted my mistake.

So, yeah, at that time, UNI was ISTC. They looked a bit like this (from 1926):

I'm sitting around at the Delhi airport waiting for an early morning domestic flight. What better to do that chat with you for a few minutes?

[GonzoCat]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

ISTC was primarily a college to train teachers, Parsons college was not a college to train parsons. Probably named after its founder I would a assume.

[Panthers to the Bone]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

For information on Parsons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_College

It was named for its benefactor. Very interesting read in that link.

[SteinPizza]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

For information on Parsons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_College

It was named for its benefactor. Very interesting read in that link.

My mother went there in the early '60s. It sounds like it was a pretty interesting place. Some of the students were big time trust fund kids from out of state, who didn't have the grades or study habits to go elsewhere. They were there to drink and raise hell. My mom was part of an effort to boost the academic level of student through an outreach to DSM area schools. They gave her an all expenses paid semester abroad in Europe as an incentive to go. She ended up finishing at Drake, but she's got some great stories from Parsons. Some of the kids she was there with had parents who were cabinet officials in the LBJ/Nixon administrations, corporate bigwigs, etc. The hardcore partier types came from that kind of background, so they could buy anything, or buy their way out of any kind of trouble.

[UNIdad]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Wow. That is not at all what I was thinking it was. I was imagining a bunch of teachers giving cut blocks to a bunch of pastors!

[Trapped in California]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Parsons was a party school like Bill Gates is kinda rich. It was a hangout for people buying their way out of the Vietnam draft.

Here is a second take http://iagenweb.org/jefferson/Parson...e/Parsons.html

BTW - A pastor was generally considered responsible for its demise.

[ronfitch]

Re: Homecoming Parsons v. Teachers game

Wow. That is not at all what I was thinking it was. I was imagining a bunch of teachers giving cut blocks to a bunch of pastors!

Under Millard Roberts ("Dr. Bob"), the school grew from 300+ to about 5,000 in ten years ('57 to '67) but was also placed on probation by its accrediting agency and had it accreditation removed in '67. Dr. Bob was fired, enrollment plunged and the school closed in '73.

On this page, there is the '73 LA Times article about it (scroll to bottom of page):

http://iagenweb.org/jefferson/ParsonsCollege/Parsons.html

Another perspective from a former student:

http://www.iowasource.com/fairfield/2009_06_parsons.html