The Chicago Tribune Silver Football is awarded by the Chicago Tribune to the college football player determined to be the best player from the Big Ten Conference. The award has been presented annually
1925 photograph of the trophy statue given to the recipient
Tim Lowry receiving the 1925 season's trophy
Nile Kinnick
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Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr. 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
Kinnick c. 1939
Hawkeye halfback Nile Kinnick breaks through the line during the September 30, 1939, game against South Dakota.
A Grumman F4F-4 in US Navy service, very similar to Kinnick's, 1942.
Pilots of Kinnick's squadron, VF-16, briefed by LCDR Paul D. Buie aboard USS Lexington. This picture was taken a few months after Kinnick's death.