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...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...
...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...
...Tennist Don Budge has been chosen as the No. 1 athlete of the U. S. In 1936 it was Sprinter Jesse Owens; in 1935 it was Boxer Joe Louis. Last week the 60 U. S. sportswriters from whom the Associated Press culls the annual vote chose Iowa Footballer Nile Kinnick as the outstanding athlete of 1939. Because of his stamina (he played the full 60 minutes against such teeth-rattling opponents as Minnesota, Notre Dame, Michigan, Purdue, Indiana, Wisconsin) as well as his talents as passer, punter and ballcarrier, Hawkeye Kinnick received 21 first-place votes, three second-place...
...Though Harmon was the spectators' favorite, a nationwide poll of sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
Paced by smooth-passing, slick-running, drop-kicking Nile Kinnick, the little band of Hawkeyes (Anderson uses only five or six substitutes a game) came from behind to lick mighty Minnesota, 13-to-9-their first victory over Minnesota in ten years. At the start of the season, even the most loyal Iowa rooter expected nothing more than a second-division Conference place for the Hawkeyes. Last week Iowa was in second place, with a chance to tie Ohio State for the Big Ten title...