Over the next year, Iowa State University will commemorate Jack Trice, the university's first Black athlete who aspired to use his education to help Black farmers in the South.
Trice was an Iowa State student of animal husbandry and a member of the Cyclone football and track and field teams. He suffered severe injuries in his second collegiate football game and died in Ames on Oct. 8, 1923. He was 21.
Trice is the namesake of the university's football stadium, the only one at the nation's major college football schools to be named for a Black man.
There will be major centennial programs and events to honor him, including a new sculpture at Jack Trice Stadium, a new name for the street just north of the stadium, a lecture series, a University Museums exhibition, a Cyclone football game featuring Jack Trice-era throwback uniforms and a new website,
jacktrice100.com. Additional programs and events will be announced over the coming year and posted to the website.
