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Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-May 1940
1940-02-07: Front
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CHAS. F. CLARKE LAWYER ADEL. IOWA TELEPHONE 7 Feb'y 7th- 1940. Dear Nile,- I have been waiting till you came through here again to tell you of our very great appreciation of your success on your second eastern trip, but I guess a letter may still be in order even at this late day. Your work since the season closed has probably done more to establish you definitely and finally as an outstanding man at Iowa and in the football world than your work (or play) in the football games. Whatever argument there may be among the wise boys as to the respective merits of Kinnick and Harmon etc. etc. nobody will argue your right to your position in scholarship and your position as the best representative Iowa ever sent east, or probably ever will send east, to appear before the august bodies where the trophies were presented. Ho football player has ever done what you have done at those assemblies or gatherings and probably never will at least for a long time to come.. This makes your whole activity in football and at Iowa in general something different from anything yet done and of a type that is of the highest and most distinguished. It reflects great credit not only on you but is something of great value to the folks back home. Our appreciation is very great. In every discussion in future years among football fans of Clyde Williams, Aubrey Divine, Gordon Locke, Willis Glasgo (I believe that is his name) and yourself they will have to say that regardless of football ability none of them even approached you in carrying your personality and the honor of your school and state to the audiences of the eastern cities. This is something very fine and of which we are all very proud. Would like to see the Walter Camp trophy, for apparently as a work of art it is far and away ahead of the Heisman trophy. Well, Bansai to you as they say on the west Coast and hope to see you soon. Chas. F. Clarke
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CHAS. F. CLARKE LAWYER ADEL. IOWA TELEPHONE 7 Feb'y 7th- 1940. Dear Nile,- I have been waiting till you came through here again to tell you of our very great appreciation of your success on your second eastern trip, but I guess a letter may still be in order even at this late day. Your work since the season closed has probably done more to establish you definitely and finally as an outstanding man at Iowa and in the football world than your work (or play) in the football games. Whatever argument there may be among the wise boys as to the respective merits of Kinnick and Harmon etc. etc. nobody will argue your right to your position in scholarship and your position as the best representative Iowa ever sent east, or probably ever will send east, to appear before the august bodies where the trophies were presented. Ho football player has ever done what you have done at those assemblies or gatherings and probably never will at least for a long time to come.. This makes your whole activity in football and at Iowa in general something different from anything yet done and of a type that is of the highest and most distinguished. It reflects great credit not only on you but is something of great value to the folks back home. Our appreciation is very great. In every discussion in future years among football fans of Clyde Williams, Aubrey Divine, Gordon Locke, Willis Glasgo (I believe that is his name) and yourself they will have to say that regardless of football ability none of them even approached you in carrying your personality and the honor of your school and state to the audiences of the eastern cities. This is something very fine and of which we are all very proud. Would like to see the Walter Camp trophy, for apparently as a work of art it is far and away ahead of the Heisman trophy. Well, Bansai to you as they say on the west Coast and hope to see you soon. Chas. F. Clarke
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