A Hawkeye Player is someone who plays for the University of Iowa's sports teams, the Iowa Hawkeyes. The two crossword solutions for this term are ALDA and ALAN, both four letters long. ALDA is likely a reference to actor ALAN ALDA, who attended the University of Iowa and was a member of the Hawkeye Marching Band. ALAN is likely a reference to ALAN Page, a former American football player who played for the Hawkeyes from 1965 to 1967.