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

1939-12-03: Front

Omaha, Nebraska, December 3, 1939
Dear SB.
We were very happy to have your letter of yesterday with the
information about your shoulder. A splendid demonstration.
And continued work will bring the perfect result.
God speed,on your excursion to New York for the Heisman Trophy
presentation. How I should like to witness that little triumph.
I know that the situation will he met with the same poise and
appropriate response that has characterized your play in all
other emergencies this season. I have no fear that you will
act the champion in this and any other ceremony in which yon
are asked to take part. You will appreciate the necessity for
proper thought on and preparation for these affairs, just like
that before the Saturday contests which have gone before.This
will be a fine opportunity for you to broaden your acquaintance
and to demonstrate that a sterling performer on the football
field can also be a man of friendly charm and interesting from
other standpoints than athletics.
But there is another matter in which you will need to domonstrate
that you have qualities of championship caliber. I mean the
capacity to promptly return to the scholastic pursuits which
remain the prime purpose of your being in the University. 1'he
happenings of recent weeks will make demands on your time that
will have to be weighed quickly and with some resolve for the
maintenance of the classroom standards which also are a part of
your fine record. To  slump in that field now will be as bad as
fumbling on the goal line.
At the New York affair you may see A. H. (Stant( Collins;
H. B. (Buck) Wilson; Bob Ingalls and perhaps John Butler.
I have heard directly or indirectly from each of them. All
are Ames Betas except Butler and he is a Fort Dodge boy who
was in the chapter at Ames when I was; but asked not to be
initiated because he planned on going to Dartmouth after one
year at Ames, He is an attorney in NY.
By the way, if you want to make the best impression, please
buy one of the short haircuts. 'This is a serious suggestion,
I am going back to Adel this aft to be in DM for a meeting on
Monday - agricultural conservation program for 1940. Mother
is going along and also Ben, George Wales and Howard Rosenblum.
I will run the boys, also Elsie, up to Ames this evening.
Fondest love Pop

Saving...

Omaha, Nebraska, December 3, 1939 Dear SB. We were very happy to have your letter of yesterday with the information about your shoulder. A splendid demonstration. And continued work will bring the perfect result. God speed,on your excursion to New York for the Heisman Trophy presentation. How I should like to witness that little triumph. I know that the situation will he met with the same poise and appropriate response that has characterized your play in all other emergencies this season. I have no fear that you will act the champion in this and any other ceremony in which yon are asked to take part. You will appreciate the necessity for proper thought on and preparation for these affairs, just like that before the Saturday contests which have gone before.This will be a fine opportunity for you to broaden your acquaintance and to demonstrate that a sterling performer on the football field can also be a man of friendly charm and interesting from other standpoints than athletics. But there is another matter in which you will need to domonstrate that you have qualities of championship caliber. I mean the capacity to promptly return to the scholastic pursuits which remain the prime purpose of your being in the University. 1'he happenings of recent weeks will make demands on your time that will have to be weighed quickly and with some resolve for the maintenance of the classroom standards which also are a part of your fine record. To slump in that field now will be as bad as fumbling on the goal line. At the New York affair you may see A. H. (Stant( Collins; H. B. (Buck) Wilson; Bob Ingalls and perhaps John Butler. I have heard directly or indirectly from each of them. All are Ames Betas except Butler and he is a Fort Dodge boy who was in the chapter at Ames when I was; but asked not to be initiated because he planned on going to Dartmouth after one year at Ames, He is an attorney in NY. By the way, if you want to make the best impression, please buy one of the short haircuts. 'This is a serious suggestion, I am going back to Adel this aft to be in DM for a meeting on Monday - agricultural conservation program for 1940. Mother is going along and also Ben, George Wales and Howard Rosenblum. I will run the boys, also Elsie, up to Ames this evening. Fondest love Pop