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Nile Kinnick

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Nile Kinnick was an American college football player who won the Heisman Trophy in 1939 as a halfback for the University of Iowa. He was killed in a training flight accident while serving as a naval aviator during World War II, and Iowa's football stadium was later named in his honor.

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Birth Year
1918 1
Birth Date
1918-07-09 1
Death Year
1943 1
Death Date
1943-06-02 1
Nationality
American 1
Career Highlight
He won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and was a consensus All-American, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. 1
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Competition Category
Team 1
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American Football, Sports
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  • Lead sentence: birth date
    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.
  • Lead sentence: birth year
    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.
  • Lead sentence: death date
    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.
  • Lead sentence: death year
    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.
  • Lead sentence: nationality
    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.
  • Lead paragraph: career highlight
    He won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and was a consensus All-American.
  • Wikipedia, article summary lead
    (July 9, 1918 – June 2, 1943) was an American naval aviator, law student, and college football player for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Why is the University of Iowa's football stadium named after Nile Kinnick?

He won the 1939 Heisman Trophy for Iowa and died serving as a naval aviator in World War II.

Kinnick won the 1939 Heisman Trophy as a halfback for Iowa and was a consensus All-American, later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951. He was killed in a training flight accident while serving as a naval aviator during World War II, and Iowa named its football stadium in his honor.

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