80 years ago today, a great American and Iowan won the Heisman Trophy

[rchawk]

We don't grow many like him anymore.

1988 SI story.

Link: https://www.si.com/vault/1987/08/31...f-the-39-heisman-winner-america-lost-a-leader

 

[FormerlyCyberCy]

We don't grow many like him anymore.

1988 SI story.

Link: https://www.si.com/vault/1987/08/31...f-the-39-heisman-winner-america-lost-a-leader

My dad always said that if he’d lived, he would have been a president.

 

[BlackNGoldBleeder]

He and Chris Street.

God takes Iowa's best too early in life.

 

[rchawk]

My dad always said that if he’d lived, he would have been a president.

Maybe so. That's what one of his teammates believed fifty years later.

 

[QChawks]

@LuteHawk was in college

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

My dad always said that if he’d lived, he would have been a president.

The ESPN special said the same thing.

It’s a great watch. I would mandate that every Iowa high school athlete watch this.

 

[Hawkeye_311]

I still think Iowa should hold one of it's spring ball open practices at Kinnick Stadium in Omaha, NE. One to honor Nile Kinnick and two to troll Husker fans.