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Nile Clarke Kinnick, Jr.
b.9 Jul 1918 Adel, Dallas, Iowa, United States
d.2 Jun 1943 Gulf of Paria, Venezuela
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Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr. (July 9, 1918 – June 2, 1943) was an American naval aviator, law student, and college football player at the University of Iowa. He won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and was a consensus All-American. He died during a training flight while serving as a United States Navy aviator in World War II. Kinnick was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, and the University of Iowa renamed its football stadium Kinnick Stadium in his honor in 1972. [edit] See AlsoMuch more information on the Kinnick family will be added, from WorldConnect database kinnickind, and from: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kinnick/ Nile Kinnick images: http://images.google.com/images?q=Nile+Kinnick+&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
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