• IOWA ICON: Nile Kinnick

    IOWA ICON: Nile Kinnick

    Some of Iowa’s sporting legends remember Hawkeye-great Nile Kinnick Andy Fales | Reporter | WHOtv.com November 25, 2009 We got just 24 years of Nile Kinnick, but the impact he made in each stage of his life was profound enough to last. “He was not a great baseball player,” says Bob Feller, the baseball legend [...]

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    May 31 | Nile Kinnick, University of Iowa, Video | 0 comments
  • The Story of Nile Kinnick

    The Story of Nile Kinnick

    NILE is a story about a young man who played football at the University of Iowa in the late 1930s.  But NILE is more than a sports story.  It’s a story about the nation recovering from the Great Depression and on the cusp of the greatest war in the history of mankind.  One athlete, in [...]

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    Jun 12 | Hawkeyes, Nile Kinnick, University of Iowa | 0 comments