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Happy 100th Birthday of the greatest Hawkeye of all time, the immortal Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr.
A few bits of Kinnickiana from my recent visit to Iowa City
Heisman Trophy, AP Athlete of the year 1939, president of his UI senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, top of his Iowa Law School class while assistant coach, died serving his country as a Naval aviator in WW2. His image is on the coin used to start all Big 10 FB games.
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my ghostly apparition remains floating in this mortal coil only to haunt the critics of my poetry
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Happy 74th Birthday Robert Swan Mueller III

▪Purple heart
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