1939 Iowa Hawkeyes Football Team - Postseason

Postseason

• Kinnick threw for 638 yards and 11 touchdowns on only 31 passes and ran for 374 yards and 5 touchdowns.

• Kinnick was involved in 107 of the 130 points that Iowa scored and played 402 of a possible 420 minutes.

• Kinnick set the school record with eight interceptions in a season, a record which still stands today.

• Nile Kinnick won virtually every major award in the country. He was named:
  • A consensus first team All-American
  • The Big Ten MVP
  • The Walter Camp Award winner
  • The Maxwell Award winner
  • The Heisman Trophy winner
  • Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year

• Iowa was ranked ninth in the final Associated Press (AP) poll.

• Iowa did not attempt a field goal all season.

• Erwin Prasse was a second team All-American.

• Mike Enich actually played more minutes in 1939 than Nile Kinnick. In the final seven games, Kinnick played six complete games before leaving in the third quarter against Northwestern. Enich left the Indiana game in the fourth quarter before finishing the season by playing six complete games.

• Nile Kinnick, Erwin Prasse, and Mike Enich were named all-Big Ten.