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This week we continue our new photo gallery feature called #tbthawkeyes. Each Thursday morning throughout the 2014 football season, we'll unveil a new gallery of historic photos of the Hawkeyes from the Press-Citizen archives.

In this week's edition, we've reached the color photography era, and Iowa has been rebuilt into its modern incarnation by Coach Hayden Fry. Featuring a cameo appearance at the very end by a very young Coach Kirk Ferentz.

Week Eight: The 1970s were not a decade of many wins for the Iowa Hawkeyes, but there are some moments worth remembering. Check out these photos from the 1970 campaign.

Week Seven: This week's gallery includes photos from the 1953 homecoming parade. The opposing squad that year? The visiting Indiana Hoosiers.

Week Six: This week's photos at the top are from a lopsided loss to the #14 Michigan Wolverines. Iowa at this point in his history is entering into a dark decade before Hayden Fry revived the program in the early 1980s.

Week Five: Includes shots from two games in 1967: Iowa vs. Purdue and Iowa vs. Minnesota.

Week Four: We see a game from the 1959 season, which is a year after Iowa's historic Rose Bowl win led to one of the team's few National Championships. While 1959 was a bit of a let down in comparison to that, these photos from Iowa's homecoming game against Michigan State still feature Bob Jeter Jr., one of Iowa's best players ever as well as one of the best half backs in Hawkeye history.

Iowa won the game, by the way, 37-8.

This photo is from the 1946 football season, Iowa fullback Ronald Headington advances the ball down the field.

Week Three: A game against Iowa's (not really) most hated rivals, the Purdue Boilermakers. Odds are if you're of a certain age group, photo six will make you pine for the era of glass bottles.

Week Two: Check out photos from the 1953-1954 season, which sees the first playing time for the famous "Steubenville Trio," of three African American friends from Steubenville, OH who played and starred for the Hawkeyes at a time when fully integrated teams weren't yet accepted all over the country. These teams in the early 1950s would also provide the foundation for the great Hawkeye run by coach Forest Evashevski.

Also, from 1953, the infamous "Fainting Irish" incident, although sadly no Notre Dame players faking injuries can be found in this gallery.

Week One: Check out photos from the 1946 season, with a game at then Iowa Stadium, which would later be graced with the now familiar name, Kinnick Stadium.