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Bookmark or Share- Kinnick: The Documentary | PBSThe incredible story of Nile Kinnick: child of the Depression, winner of the Heisman Trophy, and pilot in WW2.
- Nile Kinnick - HeismanNile Kinnick. RB | Senior | University of Iowa. Kinnick won Iowa’s first Heisman while leading his team to a 6-1-1 record. Born in Adel, Iowa, Kinnick was the grandson of a governor and a star athlete in football and basketball at Adel High for three years before the family moved to Omaha, Neb., after his junior year.
- Nile Kinnick - WikipediaNile Clarke Kinnick Jr. (July 9, 1918 – June 2, 1943) was an American naval aviator, law student, and college football player for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and was a consensus All-American .
- IRONMAN: The Nile Kinnick Story - Iowa History JournalHe is the only athlete from the state to ever win the coveted Heisman Trophy, given to the nation’s best college football player, and is the only Iowan to be named Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press. While alive, Nile Kinnick was a hero the likes of which this state had seldom seen before, or since.
- The Cornbelt Comet: How the legend of Heisman winner Nile Kinnick is ...Moments before the Iowa flag is lowered, Nile Kinnick’s military photo appears at screens that bookend the north and south end zone. Amid flashes of a touchdown run, a video appears of...
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