(Fort Dodge, IA) — The winner of Iowa versus Minnesota football game at Kinnick Stadium Saturday will take home the bronze Floyd of Rosedale Trophy.
A larger-than-life iron sculpture of Floyd the Pig was dedicated in Fort Dodge this week. City Councilman Dave Flattery says that hog was raised on the Rosedale family farm in Fort Dodge decades ago. He says there is a donor wall, but the statue doesn’t have a story plate yet to tell the story about Floyd and all the characters involved in 1935. The trophy stemmed from a bet between the governors of the two states who agreed to wager an actual pig over the game’s outcome.
The giant metal pig was crafted by Dale Merrill and Liberty Iron Works in Mount Vernon. Flattery says they plan to install lighting and security cameras at the sculpture site.
