Word: kinnick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of California talked of Liberty scholarships, open only to World War II veterans, in memory of graduates who have died in battle. The Iowa City (la.) Junior Chamber of Commerce was hard at work on a $50,000 scholarship fund in honor of Nile Kinnick, Iowa's 1939 All-America halfback, who was killed in action...
...last winter's Rose Bowl game, was up to his old tricks. Intercepting a forward pass, he scooted 40 yards to the Packers' 17-yard line, plunged over for a touchdown three plays later. A successful drop kick for the extra point was made by Halfback Nile Kinnick, the passing, punting, blocking, running lowan who led his teammates to four victories in the dog-eat-dog Big Ten last year, and was subsequently voted the No. 1 footballer...
...Super-Stars Schindler and Kinnick have spurned all offers to play pro football. Schindler has taken a job coaching football at a California high school. Kinnick, grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, prefers to study law. Another of last week's college stars whom football fans will probably see no more is kinky-haired Kenny Washington. Considered by West Coast fans the most brilliant player in the U. S. last year, Washington cannot play major-league pro football because he is a Negro...
...said to be getting: 1) $12,000 a year ($1,000 less than he received at Pitt); 2) promise of a herd of new players (the Dodgers finished third in the Eastern Division of the league last year). Among those he hopes to lure: Iowa's Ironman Nile Kinnick, No. 1 college footballer...