Iowa Stadium was renamed after a football player born in which year ?
1972 Iowa Hawkeyes football team The 1972 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. This was the last season the Hawkeyes played in Iowa Stadium before it was renamed Kinnick Stadium after Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick.
Fred Becker Fred H. Becker (November 6, 1895 in Waterloo, Iowa – July 18, 1918) was a college football player for the University of Iowa. He was a first team All-American in 1916, the first Hawkeye in any sport to earn first team All-American honors. He died at age 22 1/2 fighting in World War I.