Published by admin on Wed, 08/30/2017 - 9:25am
When the University of Wyoming football team takes on Iowa in the Hawkeyes’ season opener Saturday, Sept. 2 in Kinnick Stadium, it will excite Hawkeye fans all over Eastern Iowa.
It will also be significant to a series of former Monticello High School athletes who went on to compete at Wyoming.
“It does mean a lot,” said Mike Dirks, who graduated from Wyoming in 1967.
Dirks was an All-American defensive tackle who co-captained Wyoming’s Western Athletic Conference (WAC)-championship team that finished fifth in the nation.
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