June 14, 2007
IOWA CITY – Friends of the University of Iowa and fans of the Iowa Hawkeyes are reminded that tomorrow, Friday, June 15, is the last day that the UI Athletic Ticket Office will accept orders for tickets to the Iowa football team’s game against Northern Illinois Sept. 1 in Chicago’s Soldier Field.
Orders for tickets the Hawkeyes’ 2007 season opener received by Friday at 5 p.m. Iowa time will be filled based on the customer’s ticket priority and will be located in the sections of Soldier Field that have been designated as “University of Iowa sections.”
To date, the UI has received orders for more than 29,000 tickets for the game, the first between two college football teams in Soldier Field since its renovation. More than 45,000 total tickets have been ordered by friends and fans of the Hawkeyes and the Huskies of Northern Illinois. Capacity of Soldier Field is 61,500.
“We are extremely pleased with the response from our season ticket holders and other fans of the Hawkeyes,” said Rick Klatt, the UI’s associate athletics director for external affairs.
“We will now turn our attention to working with Northern Illinois in aggressively marketing the event to friends of the two institutions and fans of the two teams and college football in the greater Chicagoland area.”
Fans of the Hawkeyes interested in placing an order for tickets to the Iowa-Northern Illinois, 2007 UI football season tickets or a 2007 three-game mini-season ticket package can click HERE.
Tickets available for purchase on a single-game basis will go on sale in mid-July if available. Single-game tickets are currently available for purchase through the UI’s group sales and game-day hospitality program, Hawkeye Village. For more information click HERE.
Fans interested in information about the Hawkeye Huddle to be staged on Friday, Aug. 31, information about Soldier Field or information about the rental of private viewing suites inside Soldier Field can click HERE.
Tickets not purchased through the UI or NIU will go on sale on a best-seat-available basis through ticketmaster on Thursday, June 21.
Kickoff for the game has been set for 2:30 p.m. Iowa time. ESPN-U will provide live national television coverage.
The Hawkeyes will open their 2007 home season the Saturday after their visit to Chicaog – Sept. 8 – against Syracuse. That game will begin shortly after 7 p.m. Iowa time inside historic Kinnick Stadium and will be televised live in high definition to a national audience by the Big Ten Network.
Click HERE to learn more about the Big Ten Network.