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Correspondence to and from Nile Kinnick, friends and family regarding his championship football season, August-December 1939

1939-11-01: Front

November 1, 1939
Mr. Bert McGrane
Sports Department
Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Dear Mr. McGrane:
Your coverage of the Iowa University football
activities this fall has been excellent and has
offered the most pleasant reading in quite some
time.     I should add that the Register's sports section is the best that I see,   including the pictures
which support your Sunday reviews.
Your remarks about Nile have been kind to the point
of .generosity; in fact all of the writers have contributed their share of the praises.    But I wish to
commend your evident effort to bring all of the other
Iowa boys in for their proper part of the glory.    Everybody who knows football realizes that it takes eleven
men to make a football team click, and that the progress of the man who totes the ball depends upon every
other fellow carrying out his assignment.     It is too
easy to talk about the chap who makes the touchdown,
rather than note the good work of the men who do the
blocking in the line and ahead of the runner.
I hope that you will continue to bear down on recognition for the boys who work in the hold as well as
for those who walk the bridge.     In fact,   I wish that
there was some way to tell about those chaps who
follow the long grind of practice and scrimmage without
over   getting the nod to take the field.    There is something heroic in that too.
This looks a real about face in Iowa football,
and  I know one boy who is having a lot of fun.
Again thanks, and with kind, regards,  I am
Yours very truly
N.C. Kinnick

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November 1, 1939 Mr. Bert McGrane Sports Department Des Moines Register Des Moines, Iowa Dear Mr. McGrane: Your coverage of the Iowa University football activities this fall has been excellent and has offered the most pleasant reading in quite some time. I should add that the Register's sports section is the best that I see, including the pictures which support your Sunday reviews. Your remarks about Nile have been kind to the point of .generosity; in fact all of the writers have contributed their share of the praises. But I wish to commend your evident effort to bring all of the other Iowa boys in for their proper part of the glory. Everybody who knows football realizes that it takes eleven men to make a football team click, and that the progress of the man who totes the ball depends upon every other fellow carrying out his assignment. It is too easy to talk about the chap who makes the touchdown, rather than note the good work of the men who do the blocking in the line and ahead of the runner. I hope that you will continue to bear down on recognition for the boys who work in the hold as well as for those who walk the bridge. In fact, I wish that there was some way to tell about those chaps who follow the long grind of practice and scrimmage without over getting the nod to take the field. There is something heroic in that too. This looks a real about face in Iowa football, and I know one boy who is having a lot of fun. Again thanks, and with kind, regards, I am Yours very truly N.C. Kinnick