cross-posted from: https://fanaticus.social/post/227708

With only 24 days left until college football returns, let’s remember Nile Kinnick from Iowa who wore #24.

University of Iowa from 1937-1939

• 2× All-Big Ten (1937, 1939)
• 1939 Heisman Trophy
• 1939 Maxwell Award
• 1939 Walter Camp Memorial Trophy
• 1939 Consensus All-American
• 1939 AP Male Athlete of the Year
• Iowa Hawkeyes No. 24 retired
• 1972 Iowa’s football stadium renamed Kinnick Stadium in his honor