ITPC SUMMER 2018 BLOW-OUT SPORTS MEMORABILIA AUCTION
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/22/2018
Here's great looking decanter from the McCormick college series of the Iowa Cyclones*. The cork has separated from the head, but the head sits nicely on the base for display.
*Iowa State University has been known as the Cyclones since 1895 after the Chicago Tribune claimed the Northwestern football team had been “struck by a cyclone”. Iowa State Cyclones has since been the name for over 100 years!
In 1954, members of Iowa State’s Pep Council decided that Iowa State needed a mascot to represent the college. As you can imagine a cyclone would be hard to make into a mascot, and after they realized this they decided they needed to come up with something else. They landed on having a cardinal as the mascot because of Iowa State’s colors of Cardinal and Gold!
VINTAGE IOWA CYCLONES MASCOT DECANTER
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