Black Heart Gold Pants · Jun 4, 2020
Throwback Thursday: Nile Kinnick, Iowa’s All-American Man
The Hawkeyes’ stadium could not be named after a better person.Iowa football has a storied history. Granted, nobody would ever confuse the Hawkeyes for a true blueblood. Iowa doesn’t have any national championships. There aren’t even a ton of conference championships. We don’t have some time period before the Great Depression where we won a bunch of titles based on a single publication when a handful of teams would get to claim a title each year. But there certainly is a lot of history in Iowa City. Good history.
Perhaps none is better than that of Nile Kinnick. A native of Adel, Iowa, Kinnick was an all-American kid in every sense. He was bright, charming and a hell of an athlete.