Nile Kinnick

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Nile Kinnick

Kinnick c. 1939
No. 24
Position	Halfback
Major	Economics
Personal information
Born:	(1918-07-09)July 9, 1918 Adel, Iowa, U.S.
Died:	June 2, 1943(1943-06-02) (aged 24) Gulf of Paria, Venezuela
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight	167 lb (76 kg)
Career history
College	Iowa (1937–1939)
High school	Adel (Adel, Iowa) Benson (Omaha, Nebraska)
Career highlights and awards
Heisman Trophy (1939) Maxwell Award (1939) Walter Camp Memorial Trophy (1939) AP Male Athlete of the Year (1939) Consensus All-American (1939) Third-team All-American (1937) Chicago Tribune Silver Football (1939) 2× First-team All-Big Ten (1937, 1939) Iowa Hawkeyes No. 24 retired
College Football Hall of Fame (1951)
Military career
Memorialized	Tablets of the Missing, East Coast Memorial The Battery, New York, U.S.[1]
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Navy
Years of service	1941–1943
Rank	Ensign
Unit	USS Lexington
Battles/wars	World War II
Memorials	Nile C. Kinnick High School Kinnick Stadium Kinnick–Feller Park[2][a]

Nile 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. 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.

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