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Here to share the story of Iowa's own Nile Kinnock. is Scott Seitker. Take it away, Scott. In Iowa, we have no professional teams.
So, our big teams are our college football teams. Steps up, dumps it off. Play inside the file. And a touchdown, Iowa. And while Iowa State University, my alma mater, has grown immensely.
It is true, the number one brand, the biggest brand still in the state of Iowa, is the Iowa Hawkeyes. Uh Tough-nosed. Defense oriented. Ridiculed at times for loving punting. The Hawkeyes are known for playing hard, playing smart, playing above their talent.
And as you grow up a fan of a school, you of course get to know the lore. and the legends of that university. and at the University of Iowa. There is no greater figure. Then Niall Kinnick.
He was to Iowa what Red Grange was to Illinois.
Something like a god. He won the Heisman Trophy in 1939. Won the Maxwell Trophy as the best running back in the country. He was the nation's leading punter. He was the dropkicker.
He won the Walter Camp Trophy. Became an All-American. Named the Sports Illustrated All-Century team 60 years after his last game. And then, yes, he also played. Cornerback on defense.
He was named the Male AP Athlete of the Year over Joe DiMaggio, who batted 381 that season, and over Joe Lewis, the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, who had four knockouts that year. But Niall was so much more than a football player. By some magical mix of qualities listed in every Boy Scout manual, he raised the expectations of a generation of Iowans yearning to reach the other side of the Great Depression. He did it by teaching them how to win, how to fight, and how to die. I've never met anyone who had their life as well.
Programmed out as Niall did. My father thought that Niall was one of the finest young men that he'd ever met. The guy was unbelievable. He even knew sign language. We got on the train one time to go.
Uh into Chicago. And there were two cars of uh Dumb kids. And somebody looks around for Niall and well, he's back here with these kids. He's talking about. Every kid wanted to have 24 on his jersey.
We saw the way this guy worked. And we tried to emulate what he did. His nickname was June. Everybody in A Dell called him June because he was Niall Clark Kinnock Jr. Nile comes into this world in 1918.
One of the birth notes is that he was a very sturdy baby, which I just love as a little bit of a descriptor. Niall certainly grew up in an aristocratic home. His father, Niall Sr., finished second in his class, and then eventually he goes to Iowa State to play football. But the person he got second to? Was Frances Clark.
With an E on the end. Her father was governor of Iowa for two terms in the early teens. She was very cultured, very smart, very sweet, very beautiful. And the sweetheart of Niall Seam. He grew up in the Christian science faith, and his mother was probably the key person in that.
They lead a very wholesome life. purposeful In understanding and instilling in the family duty, honor. Honesty, hard work. He was a Des Moines Register newspaper boy when he was in third grade, but he also had to dig ditches. They were always talking about live right, do right, think right, act right.
After dinner, they sat around he, his mother, his father, and his brothers and talked about the world. They talked about politics, they talked about literature, they talked about newspaper items of the day.
So imagine that. Imagine the chemistry that's going on in the Kinnick household for all those early years where Niall is sitting there just absorbing all this knowledge. You could tell that it had a bearing on who Niall Kinnick ended up being because he had a very strong social consciousness as he got older. Uh-huh. Intellect was always a top priority.
at the Kinnick Household.
However. Sports. was an undeniable part.
Okay. This is a household where if you're not learning, you're outside playing. And Niall didn't just play football. He played basketball. He played baseball.
He actually was the catcher for World Series champion and Hall of Famer. Bob Feller, who grew up just down the road in Van Meter. The heater from Van Meter. He was the second leading scorer on the basketball team. Dad would teach Niall and his brothers how to dropkick.
There used to be a barn. Uncle Niall and Niall Jr., they would take down the Haymau door and the height of that next level was about the same as the goalpost in that football field and they'd work for hours kicking footballs through that little Haymau door. The schedule was the same all the time. Get up early, have a huge breakfast, Watson I'll devour four eggs, a whole bunch of bacon, some cereal, and George and I would go out with him to the football field. We would have a bag full of footballs, and George and I were the retrievers.
Go down, take a stationary position, or run a little ways, and he would drop a pass in our hat. he would have these drills. sprints forward and backwards.
So he on defense could be going backwards, but watching where the quarterback's eyes were of the opponent. He intercepted many passes and he would do passing drills with both the right and the left hand. Yes, he was ambidextrous. He worked constantly three summers in a row learning how to throw a football left-handed. He just had a bag of tricks.
He is all super smart. He is all American. He's got that chiseled jaw. That fold in his chin. Definitely the embodiment of what an all-American description would be.
But his life is far from a Disney story. Yeah. The stock market crashes. and the Great Depression settles in. The farm bill especially was in bad shape.
Some people lost all their money. Between 1926 and 1931, 25,000 farms went through mortgage foreclosure in Iowa. The Disney version. for his childhood. would go And he would be able to stay in his hometown and lead them to the state championship his senior year.
But despite the fact that his grandfather was governor of Iowa, that doesn't come with the cachet it does today. The family did have to sell the farm. They had to move to Omaha so that Niles Sr. could find a job. In the documentary, we get to interview, we do the first and only interview with Don Beiss, who is Niles' first cousin.
And Don tells the story in the documentary of sitting on the back stoop of the Kinnick farm, of Grandpa Kinnock's farm. I was then nine years old. Sitting on those steps and balling. I had my little coveralls on. because we had lost the farm to the bank.
The bank. Has to auction off everything. and the auctioneer was out there auctioning off. all of our belongings. Yes.
Hunting the gavel. and saying sold and every time he'd say sold I'd sob again. Because there was my life. For a young person, a young man. to have everything you know be uprooted questions your identity.
And can make everything fall apart if the foundation that you were brought up on is. Cracked. But in the Kinnick home, That was a solid foundation. He became first team all-state football player in Nebraska and first team all-state basketball.
So Niall Kinnick holds the unique distinction of being all state and two sports in Iowa and all state and two sports in Nebraska. When we return, the story of Niall Kinnock continues here on Our American Stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years, and now it takes form in a new way. The 2026 Semi-Quincentennial Coin and Metal Program from the United States Mint.
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Let's return to the story here again is Scott Seipker. Niall decides on going to the University of Iowa. But the power in the Midwest then was the University of Minnesota, along with Notre Dame. Minnesota was winning multiple national titles. He was interested in going to Minnesota, but the coach of the university, Bernie Bierman, took a look at Nile.
And said, we don't want him. He's too small. He was 5'8, 175 pounds. If we're being generous. And although he was a very tough 5'8, he wasn't extremely fast.
Now they said he was like carved out of rubber, so he was very strong. But when you're the University of Minnesota and you have the pick of the litter, Niall Kinnock was not going to be that puppy you were going to take home.
Well, son, it's nice that you're interested in being a gopher, but I don't think we're that interested in you. I think the legend of why he ended up at Iowa was that he wanted to go someplace where he could make a difference. Niall liked to challenge. And the Hawkeys were truly awful. the previous two years.
the University of Iowa had won three total games. The athletic department was basically broke. They hadn't paid off the bond issue on the stadium. My dad had a couple of bonds on the Iowa Stadium, and I can remember him telling me, you might as well put these up on the wall to cover a crack. They're not worth the paper they're written on.
Truly an awful football team. Of his first season, the team, I think, won one game.
However, freshmen were not allowed to play. You can imagine how frustrating it must have been for Nile to have to sit there and practice, but just watch his team lose over and over again. And these games weren't close. His sophomore year comes around, he finally gets to play. He does end up becoming an all-American.
Puncher. Despite Iowa's 1-7 record, he leads the nation in punting. His junior year starts, but is totally thwarted by an awful ankle injury. The Hawkeyes ended up firing Niles' coach and bringing in a Notre Dame man. Dr.
Eddie Anderson, who has this new philosophy. The Hawkeyes had been one and nine. He's taking over a disheveled program. and immediately he sees Niall Kinnick and sees the potential. Of building an entire offense around this young man.
They had a bond. Nile and Anderson walked off the field. Anderson had his arms around him every night, which sometimes made me kind of jealous. It did smack a little of favoritism. My father would call the rest of them by their last name.
But uh Niall was Niall.
Well, Eddie had been an all-American and at Notre Dame under Rockney. He brought. The Notre Dame, the Rockney, way of doing things to this team. We are going to be the toughest team. In the Big Ten.
Dr. Eddie Anderson wanted to have his team in the very best shape of any team in the nation.
So his new coach starts spring football early in February. We're gonna run these guys into the ground and we're gonna see who's tough enough to actually make it through. These practices are awful, and most players Quit. Started out with 87 in the spring, and we ended up with about 37 in the fall. They just quit.
But the ones that stay. will become known as the Ironman. Reference. Football then was a more aerobic sport. There wasn't as much scoring.
It was going up and down the field. Plenty was much more important. A lot of your top players played both offense and defense. In 1939, the substitution rule was that when you came out of a game, you couldn't go back into a game until the next quarter. But teams that had deeper rosters could substitute their top players with two minutes left in the first quarter.
The University of Iowa. did not have enough players to do that.
So, most of the players had to play all 60 minutes for several games in a row. Both offense, defense, and special teams.
So, this rough and tumble, thin group. is expected to do nothing. But they start off. Beating a smaller school in South Dakota. He threw three touchdowns, kicked five extra points.
And Iowa beat South Dakota 41 to nothing. The interesting point is there were only 16,000 people there to see the game.
So that means there were at least 34,000 empty seats. The second game was against Indiana and they were a pretty good team at that point. What Niall Kinnick did in that game is astounding: 603 yards. And he did it running, passing, pump returning, kickoff returning, and even threw in an interception for good measurement. Seeing him dodge the people, it came to me, it's almost like an imitation of the.
You know, Heisman trophy. They end up losing to Michigan in their first real test of the season. But we only have one loss. Which is an incredible achievement for this team. And Niall Kinnick is starting to make headlines.
But it's still a little under the radar because nobody's going to really believe in the Iowah guys who have had a loser program for years and years and years. until Notre Dame comes to town. Dr. Eddie Anderson, Iowa coach, had played for Notre Dame and was an all-American in.
So think of all the hoopla, all the dynamics. Everybody's excited. Notre Dame's undefeated, a favorite to win the national title. They have all the resources, all the talent, a deep squad. Their players can rest throughout the game.
No one is expecting. the Iowa Hawkeyes led by Nile Kinnick to be able to beat mighty Notre Dame. The game starts. And it is a slog. In fact, Niall actually punted the ball 16 times that game, which is still an Iowa record.
But as the game is winding down, Niall drops back to pass. He throws a deep Intercepted. And you think this is the end of the game? As the Notre Dame defender is returning the interception. The Hawkeyes tackle him.
The fighting Irish player Fumbles the ball. Iowa recovers the ball. inside their own five-yard line. The score is six to nothing. Iowa now has a fresh set of downs.
and maybe the best running back In college football, Niall Kinnick. They end up running. on first down and second down. to the right side. And he gets tackled.
pretty much no progress. The quarterback at the time comes into the huddle and says, We're going to do the exact same play, but we're running it to the left. They're not going to see it come. Coupe hikes the ball. Hands it off to Niokinnick.
busts through and scores I was touchdown. But the score is still six to six. is going to come down to that extra point. And of course, who is the kicker for the Iowa Hawkeyes? Niall Kinnick.
And I can imagine that hei mao door that his father would open up and teach him how to. Drop kick. was there in his mind. Iowa City goes absolutely crazy. No one had ever heard of Iowa, but all of a sudden, in theaters from Texas to New York to Georgia to Alabama, people stood up and cheered when they heard the Iowa score.
And then came Minnesota, which Iowa hadn't beaten in a decade, and we hated them. And of course, nobody's thinking they're going to beat Minnesota. And yet, Niall Kinnock. is able to lead the Iowa Hawkeyes to a victory. The fans went crazy again.
Probably 20,000 or more stormed the field to congratulate the players. I can remember standing by the runway where the Minnesota players were going back to the dressing. Bierman walked by me. The look on his face is a wonder. It didn't crack the bricks in the stadium.
They become a national sensation. They were the embodiment of the American struggle. through the Great Depression. This Rough and tumble squad out of Iowa City is an inspiration to the rest of the nation that feels browbeat, feels like they got everything against them. that all they really have is the heart in their chest.
And you've been listening to Scott Seipker, aka the Iowa Nice Guy, telling a remarkable story about Niall Kinnock. When we return, the story of Niall Kinnock continues here on our American Stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years. And now it takes form in a new way.
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And we return to our American stories and the final segment of our story on Nile Kinnock. Let's return to the story here again is Scott Seitker. I don't think it was something that anyone thought was possible because to win the Heisman Trophy, you really have to be on a really good team because your contributions have to be connected with winning. Nobody's thinking that the Iowa Hawkeyes are going to have a good enough team.
Now, All-American, yeah, it's possible. There are many more spots for that. But as the season ends, Niall gets the notification that he has won the Heisman Trophy in 1939. The Heisman Trophy actually came into existence in 1935, so it was a relatively new award back then, but it still had already gained a lot of prominence because it was held in New York City at the New York Downtown Athletic Club, which was full of millionaires and very important people. Niall is somebody.
Now, one of the commentators of the Times said that I say he's competing nationally with probably Shirley Temple and Charlie McCarthy to become America's favorite personalities.
Now is competing with Shirley Temple. He and Dr. Eddie Anderson were giving the royal treatment everywhere they went. People were just excited to meet this dynamic young football player from the University of Iowa. And a lot of them were surprised when they saw his size.
Once again, 5'8 ⁇ , 172, 173 pounds.
So to come out and win it, it was that underdog story that America was craving at the time. Because we all felt like underdogs, especially here in the Midwest. I do think Niall was aware that his words had meaning to them, they carried weight. His Heisman Trophy speech, which is still to this day considered the greatest Heisman Trophy speech of all time, first starts off with the part that nobody really talks about or quotes. It's all just a big thank you.
to his teammates. to his coaches. to his family and friends. I want to take this grand opportunity. To thank collectively all the sports writers and all the sports casters and all those who have seen fit, have seen their way clear, to cast a ballot in my favor for this trophy.
And I also want to take this opportunity to Thank Mr. Prince and his committee, the Heisman Award Committee, and the football players of this country. But then he gets to the heart of his speech. the point that made it the greatest Heisman Trophy speech of all time. He's in a room in New York City talking to some of the most important leaders in America at that time, which are mostly World War I veterans who are trying to decide whether or not they're going to send Niles Generation.
to this newest European war. We don't know at the time if America is getting involved in the war, but we certainly are starting to prepare.
So he talks about war. Finally, if you'll permit me... I'd like to make a comment, which in my mind is indicative perhaps of the greater significance of football and sports emphasis in general in this country, and that is, I thank God I was warring on the gridirons of the Midwest. and not on the battlefields of Europe. Like it.
I can speak confidently, and father didn't. That the players of this country would much more, much rather struggle and fight to win the Heisman Award than Croix Saguerre. Thank you. He would rather play football on the gridirons of the Midwest than fight and win the Croix de Guerre. Niall, Doesn't stick to sports.
And I know we oftentimes criticize our athletes. Just stick to sports. I don't want to hear what you have, what your opinion is. Niall Kinnick did not believe in that because Niall Kinnock was not just a football player.
Now, Kinnick was an American patriot. He's somebody who believed. deeply in the things that he was taught as a child. And we're talking about a kid, not, I can't call him a kid, a young man. He's still in his early 20s.
If you listen to his voice and you're not looking, you would think this is a wise. Man, he's got great oratory skills. He's incredibly intelligent. And this is Nile revealing, I think, that his intentions for his life are not sports-oriented. Niall comes back to Iowa and he decides I don't want to do professional football.
I just want to get my law degree.
So, despite being able to have gone and played in the NFL. He skips that part and enrolls right back at the University of Iowa. to become an eternity. In a class of 106 at the end of his first year, he's ranked third in the class and he's also coaching Iowa freshman football something like 20 hours a week.
So that just shows you how determined and dedicated and driven Niall was. And it doesn't just stop there with this Heisman Trophy speech. Roosevelt is running for reelection. A man named Wilkie is running against the Republican nominee, and Niall Kinnock believes that Wilkie is the better option for president. And so he goes out and starts stumping for the Republican nominee for president.
Now, FDR ends up winning the election, but Willkie won the state of Iowa. I'm obviously biased towards Niall. I think Senate is probably the floor, but that the office of the Presidency of the United States of America was absolutely within the realm of possibilities for Niall Kinning's life. If you don't want to take my word for it. We were cleared by the Secret Service and we're standing there in the room.
And the door opens up and in walks Ronald Reagan, 78 years old, Ramrod Street. And he's making his way past all 20 of us. And I said, Mr. President, could I ask you a question? And he says, yes, certainly.
I said, well, you worked at WHO Radio in Des Moines in 1937. I'm curious, did you ever meet Niall Kinnick? And Ronald Reagan stopped and just stared at me for a minute. The Secret Service were staring real intently. They saw the President lock in.
And he looked at me and he said, Why, no, I never did. And that's something that I deeply regret because I'm a big fan of Niall Kinnock and I would have liked to have met him. I think he could have been anything. Maybe even President of the United States. You can take Ronald Reagan's.
word for it. In our research for the documentary, we came across a story. That When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, he ran immediately to enlist. This is not a true story. They enlist themselves before Pearl Harbor.
My lasting memory of Niall was when he came back to the University of Iowa as a commissioned officer. He's there in the press box, and the crowd starts chanting his name. And he's able to come out and he takes his cap off and he says thank you to the crowd. Place goes crazy for Niall Kinnick. And he's in his, I should paint the picture better, he's in his Navy uniform.
So he takes his Navy cap off and salutes the crowd. You look like General Eisenhower. That unfortunately is the last time Nile Kinnick is ever in Iowa City. Dear Mr. and Mrs.
Kinnock, It is with deepest regret and sympathy that I inform you of the loss of your son, Niel, in an airplane crash on the second of june, nineteen forty three. His plane developed a serious oil leak about ten minutes before he landed. Having lost all oil, the engine failed, forcing Nile to land in the water. a diligent and immediate search of the exact location of the landing, failed to reveal any trace whatever of Niall. The loss of Niel Kinnick was not an extraordinary event.
Too ordinary.
So many. Young men were dying every day because of the carnage of World War Two. Niall's younger brother also perished in the Pacific theater. was just left Nile's youngest brother to carry on the family legacy. Once America won World War II, there was some honoring of Nile.
The United States Navy named the flagship naval base in Japan for America. They named the high school there Nile Clark Kinnick Jr. High School. But the... The family was pretty adamant that they did not want the stadium to be named.
After Nile. They wanted to honor all those who had perished. And so the family thought if you're going to rename it from Iowa Stadium, you should name it Memorial Stadium. But then, as time went on, there was a lawyer who served in the Navy named Les Swanson. who broke his leg coming down the stairs one day.
and was stuck in a wheelchair, and he always loved Niokinnick. And since he was stuck in a wheelchair, he couldn't do anything, he decided he was going to get Iowa to change the name to Kinnick Stadium. And so he began this barrage, annoying the people of power, letter after letter after letter, figuring it out, lawyer mindset, How are we gonna make this happen? And so, Les, through just sheer grit and determination, figures out who to pressure, but they require that Niall Sr. Agree.
and less rights to Niall Sr. And finally, after many decades of refusal, Niles Sr. gives his blessing to rename the stadium Niall Clark Kinnock Jr. Stadium, which we all shortened Kinnock Stadium. Les Swanson died just a few weeks after that agreement was made, but Niles Sr.
was able to make it for the first game ever at the new Kinnick Stadium. A legend in Iowa Sports here. on our American stories. Liberty has never been just a word to we Americans. It has guided every one of our endeavors for the past 250 years.
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