Iowa Stadium was renamed after a football player born in which year ?
Nile Kinnick Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr. (July 9, 1918 – June 2, 1943) was a student and a college football player at the University of Iowa. He won the 1939 Heisman Trophy and was a consensus All-American. He died during a training flight while serving as a United States Navy aviator in World War II. Kinnick was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951, and the University of Iowa renamed its football stadium Kinnick Stadium in his honor in 1972.
Tom Farmer (American football) Thomas Manduis Farmer (April 17, 1921 – July 1, 1980) was an American football halfback in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Los Angeles Rams (1946) and the Washington Redskins (1947–1948). He played college football at the University of Iowa and was drafted in the second round of the 1943 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Rams.