The Iowa Hawkeyes football team will be taking the field Friday at the Holiday Bowl in San Diego with a stark visual tribute to the team's former coach who passed away recently.
KCRG-TV 9 reports helmets worn by players will be without their usual team logo, the Tigerhawk, on both sides as a tribute to legendary former coach Hayden Fry.
Fry died on December 17. He was responsible for making the Tigerhawk logo the official mark for the school's team sports.
According to the school, both logos have been removed from the team's helmets on two previous occasions. On November 2, 1991, the school took the logos off in tribute to victims of a mass shooting on the school's campus. During the Alamo Bowl in 1996, the same step was taken when Diane Mitchell, the mother of then linebacker Mark Mitchell, died in a car crash shortly before the game. Fry was the coach of the team for both of those games.
In addition to the lack of logos, the team's helmets will feature a special mark on the back honoring former director of athletics Chalmers "Bump" Elliott, who died earlier this month.
The Hawkeyes play USC Friday night at 7:05. The game will be televised on Fox Sports 1.