Former Hawkeye Randy Duncan Dies at Age 79

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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Former Iowa Hawkeyes quarterback Randy Duncan has passed away at age 79

Randy Duncan, former Iowa Hawkeyes quarterback, passed away Tuesday night after battling Brain Cancer for some time. Duncan is one of the best players in Iowa’s football history, and is the last quarterback to win the Rose Bowl with the Hawkeyes in 1959.

Duncan was an All-American during the Rose Bowl winning season and finished second in Heisman voting. During 10 games in 1958, he completed 59.2 percent of passes, threw for 1,397 yards and 12 touchdowns.

Duncan went on to be the first overall pick by the Green Bay Packers in the 1959 NFL Draft, but he opted towards joining the Canadian Football League instead.

He played for the BC Lions for a couple of seasons and eventually joined the Dallas Texans in the American Football League after. His professional football career only lasted three years, as he retired and finished law school at Drake University.

From going to high school in Des Moines, to playing football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, to finishing law school at Drake, Duncan has a very long history in the state of Iowa. Duncan was inducted into the Iowa Sports Hall of Fame in 1976 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 1997.