The 1922 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1922 Big Ten Conference football season. The team was coached by Howard Jones, was co-champion of the Big Ten Conference, and was retroactively selected as the 1922 national champion by the Billingsley Report. Preseason Howard Jones was in his seventh year at Iowa in 1922, having coached the Hawkeyes to a 30–14–1 record from 1916 to 1921. In 1919, end Lester Belding was named All-America, and Belding, quarterback Aubrey Devine, tackle Duke Slater and fullback Fred Lohman were named All-Big Ten. In 1920, Belding, Devine and Slater were named All-Big Ten. In 1921, Iowa went 7–0 and won the Big Ten championship. Devine, Slater and fullback Gordon Locke were named All-America, and Devine, Slater, Locke, Belding, center John Heldt, guard Chester Mead and end Max Kadesky were named All-Big Ten. Devine, his brother Glenn, Slater and Belding graduated in the spring of 1922. Iowa had a ten-game winning streak going into the 1922 season. Schedule Season Knox Iowa opened the 1922 season on October 7 with a game against Knox College. For the second consecutive year, the Hawkeyes crushed Knox. Final score: 61–0. Yale On October 14, Iowa made a trip to New Haven to play Eastern powerhouse Yale. The Elis had already beaten Bates, Carnegie Tech and North Carolina by a combined score of 79–0. Yale was coached by the younger brother of Iowa coach Howard Jones, Tad Jones, who had coached the Elis to a 27–5 record from 1916 to 1917 and 1920 to 1922. Yale had an eleven-game home winning streak at the Yale Bowl. The Elis had never lost to a team from the West in fifty years of varsity football. In the first game between Eastern and Western teams of the college football season, Iowa dominated Yale. The Hawkeyes used only twelve men to the fourteen used by the Elis. The only scoring drive of the game began late in the first quarter when Yale punted to the Hawkeyes. An Eli foul put Iowa in the territory of the opposition. Iowa quarterback Leland Parkin led the Hawkeyes down the field. On fourth down and goal from the Yale nine, Parkin ran around the right end and dove for the end zone. He came down a foot short and crawled the rest of the way. Iowa missed the extra point, but six points