Forest Evashevski, a 2000 College Football Hall of Fame inductee who coached Iowa to two Rose Bowl victories, passed away Oct. 30 at his home in Petoskey, Mich. He was 91.

Evashevski engineered one of the greatest football explosions of all time, arriving at Iowa in 1952 with the school having had only three winning seasons in the previous 16 years.

Under Evashevski, Iowa became a national power, won Big 10 championships in 1956, 1958, and 1960, had seven winning seasons in nine years, and was named national champion by the Football Writers Association in 1958.

Evashevski career is a continuing story of achievement. He attended Northwestern High School in Detroit and graduated at age 16. Two years later he received an academic scholarship to the University of Michigan. He won three letters each in football and baseball, captained the football team, was senior class president, and won the Big 10 Medal for excellence in athletics and academics.

As a football player, he was Michigan's quarterback 1938-40, serving as a devastating blocker for running back Tom Harmon. In 1941, his first year out of school, he was head coach at Hamilton College and had a 5-2 record. He served in the Navy in World War II.

From 1946-49 he was an assistant coach at Syracuse and Michigan State. He was head coach at Washington State from 1950-51 with a record of 11-6-2. He coached Iowa 1952-60. His Iowa record was 52-27-4. His career totals: 12 years, 68-35-6, a winning percentage of .651.

He was 42 when he left coaching after the 1960 season, subsequently serving as the Iowa athletic director until 1970.

Iowa had great victories under Evashevski. His first team in 1952 started 0-4. Coming up was a game with powerful Ohio State, which had beaten Iowa 83-21 and 47-21 the two preceding years. Evashevski put in a new offense, a new defense, and Iowa won 8-0. Then came the great years. Evashevski installed the wing-T offense. In 1958 Iowa led the nation in total offense, 416.7 yards per game. Iowa went 37-8-2 in his last five years.

The Hawkeyes defeated Oregon State 35-19 in the 1956 Rose Bowl, and they claimed a second Rose Bowl victory at the end of the 1958 season, beating California 38-12.

Evashevski is survived by his wife Ruth, and his descendants included five sons and two daughters.