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OT: Iowa's Nile Kinnick picked off 8 passes in his 1939, 8-game Heisman campaign...

Chris Calloway

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...at a time when Bo Schembechler would have seemed like Bill Walsh. That's almost unfathomable.

Watched BTN's B1G Icons, and wow, what a story. Kid turned down tons of lucrative professional offers to go to law school, intending to become governor of Iowa, then died before turning 25 while training in the Navy leading up to WWII. Damn, what a world.
 
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