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Kinnick Stadium is a stadium located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the home stadium of the University of Iowa Hawkeyes football team. Opened in 1929 as Iowa Stadium to replace Iowa Field, i
The stadium during a football game between Iowa and Syracuse in September 2007
Statue of Nile Kinnick in front of the stadium bearing his name
The scoreboard in the south end zone at Kinnick Stadium, as seen in 2005
A view of the Crossover at Kinnick showing the configuration of the court within the football field
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 Stadium
…stadium in the Big Ten, and one of the 20 largest university owned stadiums in the nation. Primarily used for college football, the stadium is named for Nile Kinnick, the Iowa player who won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and died in service during World War II. Kinnick Stadium is the only college football stadium named…
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.