Hayden Fry is entering the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame

Former Iowa football coach Hayden Fry is being inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame on Dec. 30.

Here is part of the press release from the Tournament of Roses:

With Hayden Fry at the helm, Iowa's football program ranked consistently among the nation's best. As the Hawkeyes' head coach for 20 years, Fry led his team to 96 Big Ten game victories, league titles in 1981 (shared), 1985 (outright) and 1990 (shared), each time earning a trip to the Rose Bowl plus 14 other bowl appearances. Fry was responsible for bringing the Hawkeyes back to the Rose Bowl Game for the first time after a 23-year hiatus. Fry had a 143-89-6 record with the Hawkeyes (96-61-5 in the Big Ten) and a career mark of 232-178-10. He is Iowa's winningest football coach and was just the sixth football coach in Big Ten history to coach 20 seasons.

Fry was voted Big Ten Coach of the Year three times (1981, 1990, 1991) and was been named Coach of the Year, both regionally and nationally, by both the media and the American College Football Coaches Association. In 2003 he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. He has also been honored with the prestigious Amos Alonzo Stagg Lifetime Achievement Award. Since that time he has also been inducted into the Baylor Wall of Fame, the Peach, Sun and Holiday Bowl Halls of Fame and the North Texas State University Hall of Fame.

Joining Fry in this year's inductions are former Purdue running back LeRoy Keyes and former USC offensive lineman Brad Budde. They will be feted at the Jan. 1 Rose Bowl, which coincidentally, has a former Fry player/assistant coach (Bret Bielema) coaching one of the two teams (Wisconsin).

Fry joins former Hawkeyes  Coach Howard Jones, Athletic Director Bump Elliott, and players Bob Jeter and Ken Ploen.