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Nile Kinnick and Nile Kinnick Sr. letters to William C. Stuart, 1941-1983
1982-11-28: Page 05
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- 3 - He was 5 foot 8 inches tall and weighed less than 170 pounds. He did not possess the blinding speed that is ordinarily associated with great running backs. But he made up for his lack of size and speed with desire, determination, selfdiscipline, courage and intelligence. He once said: "I am more convinced than ever that desire is 80% of the success in athletics, probably in anything." He was a great athlete Nile had an A average at Adel and later at Benson High School in Omaha. At the University of Iowa he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of Artus, Honorary scholastic societies. He was fourth in a class of almost 150 as a freshman law student. So, in addition to being a great athlete, he was an outstanding scholar. But his accomplishments in these two areas are not so unique that outstanding high school athletes 43 years later can be expected to be impressed with these records. It is not Nile's great athletic abilities or his outstanding scholarship that justify us using him as an example for young men two generations removed. It is his other qualities as a man that cause him to stand head and shoulders above any person of c omparable age that I have ever known. It is these qualities that we would all do well to emulate in athletics, in education, in our occupations, our vocations and our personal lives.
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- 3 - He was 5 foot 8 inches tall and weighed less than 170 pounds. He did not possess the blinding speed that is ordinarily associated with great running backs. But he made up for his lack of size and speed with desire, determination, selfdiscipline, courage and intelligence. He once said: "I am more convinced than ever that desire is 80% of the success in athletics, probably in anything." He was a great athlete Nile had an A average at Adel and later at Benson High School in Omaha. At the University of Iowa he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of Artus, Honorary scholastic societies. He was fourth in a class of almost 150 as a freshman law student. So, in addition to being a great athlete, he was an outstanding scholar. But his accomplishments in these two areas are not so unique that outstanding high school athletes 43 years later can be expected to be impressed with these records. It is not Nile's great athletic abilities or his outstanding scholarship that justify us using him as an example for young men two generations removed. It is his other qualities as a man that cause him to stand head and shoulders above any person of c omparable age that I have ever known. It is these qualities that we would all do well to emulate in athletics, in education, in our occupations, our vocations and our personal lives.
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