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.
Ben &quot;Sport&quot; Donnelly Benjamin S. "Sport" Donnelly (? – August 3, 1922) was an American football player and coach. He was the second-ever known professional football player, behind William Heffelfinger. He was paid $250 for one game on November 19, 1892 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, for a game against the Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team. The November 19 date was exactly seven days after the team paid Heffelfinger $500 for a game. In 1893, Donnelly was hired by the Allegheny Athletic Association as player-coach, making him the first man to ever coach a known pro team. Heffelfinger once said that Donnelly was the only man that he had played against who "could slug you and at the same time keep his eyes on the ball". Donnelly also served as the second head football coach at the University of Iowa for a single season in 1893, compiling a record of 3–4.