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

1939-12-04: Page 02

the Bulova watch company presented Prasse & me with five wrist watches. If you will look in the current issue of Life magazine you will see them in a fine advertisement. Mine is the Am. eagle model & Prasse's the Ambassador. On the left hand page is a $1000 watch - pure platinum studded with diamonds. They gave that one to coach. This coaching racket is truly lucrative.
My shoulder is coming along excellently. Each day sees fine improvements as far as I can tell with it taped the way it is. The bump hasn't gone down much but I can tie my tie and move it with considerable freedom nonetheless.
I wish you would help me in the line of proper guidance as to the future. From this experience I feel that pro ball is not the right direction and yet I don't want to pass it by if it seems to be the ultimate consummation of my endeavours in the field. I hardly think it is

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the Bulova watch company presented Prasse & me with five wrist watches. If you will look in the current issue of Life magazine you will see them in a fine advertisement. Mine is the Am. eagle model & Prasse's the Ambassador. On the left hand page is a $1000 watch - pure platinum studded with diamonds. They gave that one to coach. This coaching racket is truly lucrative. My shoulder is coming along excellently. Each day sees fine improvements as far as I can tell with it taped the way it is. The bump hasn't gone down much but I can tie my tie and move it with considerable freedom nonetheless. I wish you would help me in the line of proper guidance as to the future. From this experience I feel that pro ball is not the right direction and yet I don't want to pass it by if it seems to be the ultimate consummation of my endeavours in the field. I hardly think it is