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Correspondence concerning the commemoration of Nile Kinnick, 1941-1997
1991-04-10: Front
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Hawkeye Sports By ERIC C. WILSON THE SEASON'S CAMPAIGN The intercollegiate athletic front is mighty quiet in mid-summer. The sports- minded fan has exhausted most of his words on the season just past; he hasn't yet steamed up interest in the coming football season. Warm and drowsy days slip by. Heat waves shimmer off the vacant expanses of stadium seats. The Field House is only a shadow of its former busy self, with coaches now turned professors to teach theirr methods to visiting coaches in the Summer Session. So, in writing sports in mid-summer for the alumni, practically the only thing possible to do is to let the finger roam at random over the typewriter keys, with the hope they will hit something that may in- erest you. Such as these: Harold Haub, the pitching gentleman who won six of Iowa's eight Big Ten base- ball victories last season, is the most valu- able player in the league. Coaches voted him the honor -- and for the second time in three years the designation went to an Iowan. It was Jim George in 1938. Haub had the best record in the league: six wins, two losses. He allowed 44 hits and [3?] runs in 58 2/3 innings, struck out 44 hitters, and issued only 14 bases on balls. [No?] other Iowa pitcher in history ever won so many conference games. Haub now is [in?] Elmira, N. Y., of the Eastern league, Brooklyn Dodger "farm." About Football? You will read more about prospects in the next issue. Be satisfied this time with these few crumbs of facts: 8 of 13 Ironmen will be back, including Captain Mike Enich who played full-time in six big games . . . some of the others are K. Pettit, Walker, Tollef- son, Hawkings, Andruska, Couppee. But perhaps the Ironmen will not have [to be?] so durable with good prospects for able replacements among the sopho- mores, Parker, Miller, Urban, Gable, [illegible], Penaluna, Anderson in the [illegible] Mertes, Wright, Smith, Stauss, Ben- [illegible], Youel, Eddy, Farmer in the back- field -- to mention a few of the possibilities. And you know well the names of such veterans as Murphy, Green, Gallagher, Ankeny, Diehl, Luebcke, Snider. Among the missing: Nile Kinnick, Dick Evans, Erwin Prasse, Buzz Dean, Ed Mc- Lain. (By the way, Kinnick and Prasse probably will be voted into action on the All-Star squad in the Chicago Tribune's game with the Green Bay Packers Aug. 29). Order Your Tickets Now -- and that's no attempt to slip an advertisement into the news columns. About 35,000 envelopes with ticket application material were mailed in mid-July, and the earlier you order, the better seats you get. The big home games: Oct. 12, Wisconsin; Nov. 2, Purdue (Homecoming); and Nov. 23, Illinois. Iowa vs. Army -- sounds strange, doesn't it? And it is strange because never before has Iowa scheduled Army in an athletic contest. Track teams meet at West Point May 3, 1941, marking the first time that Iowa has sent a complete track team into the East, the others being relay teams or individuals. Army is coached by Leo Novak, former coach at Washington High of Cedar Rapids. Iowa, aided by half a dozen good sophomores, will have a representative team in 1941. Conditioning Young Men for Defense -- one of the objectives of the athletic and physical education program in 1940-41, says Director E. G. Schroeder. Additional stress upon physical fitness is needed, and Iowa has aligned itself with other large universities in the expansion of its program, according to National Collegiate A. A. recommendations. Early Stars Die -- Will M. Woodward of Independence, captain of the 1885 football team which played the old "association" style before the advent of American football; and Judge Thomas Powell of Cedar Rapids, baseball star of 1900 and 1901. Five-Year Picture -- Hawkeye teams have won 55 per cent of their contests. The record shows 243 victories, 195 defeats, 10 ties in all contests. The yearly average: 49 wins, 39 losses, 2 ties. Return of the Veterans -- unless dire things happen, Iowa teams will have 52 major letter men in 1940-41. Most fortunate coach: Eddie Anderson with 17 in football. But Dave Armbruster is not complaining with 8 swimmers, while there are 6 in basketball and baseball. Hawkeye Negro Athletes -- are being honored in the sports section of the American Negro Exposition in Chicago this summer . . . large photographs and sketches of Duke Slater, Ed Gordon, Homer Harris, and Ozzie Simmons are displayed. 1939 FOOTBALL MEMORIAL A tangible memorial trophy by which Hawkeye football fans can remember the "Iron Men" and the record of the 1939 football season has been brought out by Al Schenk, former Iowa football star. The trophy is a metal cast of a football punter mounted on a base in which are inscribed the scores of the games in the 1939 season. Standing nine inches high and finished with a permanent, washable gold lacquer, the memorial weighs 4 1/2 pounds. It is suitable for use as a paper weight or desk ornament. Al and a fellow student in the Harvard Graduate Business School have completed arrangements for production, and the trophy is now available to Iowa fans. Inquiries may be addressed to Al Schenk, 5 Bella Vista, Iowa City, Iowa.
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Hawkeye Sports By ERIC C. WILSON THE SEASON'S CAMPAIGN The intercollegiate athletic front is mighty quiet in mid-summer. The sports- minded fan has exhausted most of his words on the season just past; he hasn't yet steamed up interest in the coming football season. Warm and drowsy days slip by. Heat waves shimmer off the vacant expanses of stadium seats. The Field House is only a shadow of its former busy self, with coaches now turned professors to teach theirr methods to visiting coaches in the Summer Session. So, in writing sports in mid-summer for the alumni, practically the only thing possible to do is to let the finger roam at random over the typewriter keys, with the hope they will hit something that may in- erest you. Such as these: Harold Haub, the pitching gentleman who won six of Iowa's eight Big Ten base- ball victories last season, is the most valu- able player in the league. Coaches voted him the honor -- and for the second time in three years the designation went to an Iowan. It was Jim George in 1938. Haub had the best record in the league: six wins, two losses. He allowed 44 hits and [3?] runs in 58 2/3 innings, struck out 44 hitters, and issued only 14 bases on balls. [No?] other Iowa pitcher in history ever won so many conference games. Haub now is [in?] Elmira, N. Y., of the Eastern league, Brooklyn Dodger "farm." About Football? You will read more about prospects in the next issue. Be satisfied this time with these few crumbs of facts: 8 of 13 Ironmen will be back, including Captain Mike Enich who played full-time in six big games . . . some of the others are K. Pettit, Walker, Tollef- son, Hawkings, Andruska, Couppee. But perhaps the Ironmen will not have [to be?] so durable with good prospects for able replacements among the sopho- mores, Parker, Miller, Urban, Gable, [illegible], Penaluna, Anderson in the [illegible] Mertes, Wright, Smith, Stauss, Ben- [illegible], Youel, Eddy, Farmer in the back- field -- to mention a few of the possibilities. And you know well the names of such veterans as Murphy, Green, Gallagher, Ankeny, Diehl, Luebcke, Snider. Among the missing: Nile Kinnick, Dick Evans, Erwin Prasse, Buzz Dean, Ed Mc- Lain. (By the way, Kinnick and Prasse probably will be voted into action on the All-Star squad in the Chicago Tribune's game with the Green Bay Packers Aug. 29). Order Your Tickets Now -- and that's no attempt to slip an advertisement into the news columns. About 35,000 envelopes with ticket application material were mailed in mid-July, and the earlier you order, the better seats you get. The big home games: Oct. 12, Wisconsin; Nov. 2, Purdue (Homecoming); and Nov. 23, Illinois. Iowa vs. Army -- sounds strange, doesn't it? And it is strange because never before has Iowa scheduled Army in an athletic contest. Track teams meet at West Point May 3, 1941, marking the first time that Iowa has sent a complete track team into the East, the others being relay teams or individuals. Army is coached by Leo Novak, former coach at Washington High of Cedar Rapids. Iowa, aided by half a dozen good sophomores, will have a representative team in 1941. Conditioning Young Men for Defense -- one of the objectives of the athletic and physical education program in 1940-41, says Director E. G. Schroeder. Additional stress upon physical fitness is needed, and Iowa has aligned itself with other large universities in the expansion of its program, according to National Collegiate A. A. recommendations. Early Stars Die -- Will M. Woodward of Independence, captain of the 1885 football team which played the old "association" style before the advent of American football; and Judge Thomas Powell of Cedar Rapids, baseball star of 1900 and 1901. Five-Year Picture -- Hawkeye teams have won 55 per cent of their contests. The record shows 243 victories, 195 defeats, 10 ties in all contests. The yearly average: 49 wins, 39 losses, 2 ties. Return of the Veterans -- unless dire things happen, Iowa teams will have 52 major letter men in 1940-41. Most fortunate coach: Eddie Anderson with 17 in football. But Dave Armbruster is not complaining with 8 swimmers, while there are 6 in basketball and baseball. Hawkeye Negro Athletes -- are being honored in the sports section of the American Negro Exposition in Chicago this summer . . . large photographs and sketches of Duke Slater, Ed Gordon, Homer Harris, and Ozzie Simmons are displayed. 1939 FOOTBALL MEMORIAL A tangible memorial trophy by which Hawkeye football fans can remember the "Iron Men" and the record of the 1939 football season has been brought out by Al Schenk, former Iowa football star. The trophy is a metal cast of a football punter mounted on a base in which are inscribed the scores of the games in the 1939 season. Standing nine inches high and finished with a permanent, washable gold lacquer, the memorial weighs 4 1/2 pounds. It is suitable for use as a paper weight or desk ornament. Al and a fellow student in the Harvard Graduate Business School have completed arrangements for production, and the trophy is now available to Iowa fans. Inquiries may be addressed to Al Schenk, 5 Bella Vista, Iowa City, Iowa.
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