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December 07, 1939

THE BOSTON POST, Massachusetts, December 7, 1939 

* Nile Kinnick wins Heisman Trophy (1st report) 
* Iowa Hawkeyes - NCAA college football
 

Page 18 has a one column heading: "KINNICK GIVEN HEISMAN AWARD" with subhead: "Iowa Star Voted Leading Player for 1939" (see)
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day. Complete with 26 pages, minor wear, generally nice.

wikipedia notes: Nile Clarke Kinnick, Jr. (July 9, 1918 – June 2, 1943) was a student and a college football player at the University of Iowa. He won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and was a consensus All-American. He died during a training flight while serving as a U.S Navy aviator in World War II. Kinnick was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, and the University of Iowa renamed its football stadium "Kinnick Stadium" in his honor in 1972.

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