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ORD_Buckeye;1853938; said:
Jack got jobbed, but I'll settle for three out of the top 8. Just have to wonder whether Archie and/or Jesse will get downgraded for "balance. Owens at anything other than number one is fucking horse shit.
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Apparently, I've repped you recently, but I have no doubt that Owens will be number 1. Besides the 4 WORLD records in one day at a Big Ten track meet and the four golds in 1936, there's the whole finger in the eye to Hitler thing . . .
 
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Oh8ch;1854014; said:
I would be surprised if Johnson is still on the list having played only two years. They might have put him on the list despite that, but not one of the top seven.
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Isiah was on the list and only played 2 years, and Magic > Isiah.

But having Magic above Jerry Lucas is disappointing.
 
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#7 Nile Kinnick

Nate Kinnick is #7 but I thought Keith Jackson said something about Dick Butkus at the close of the show last night.

Kinnick's achievements

1939
The Associated Press named Kinnick the nation's top male athlete, ahead of Joe DiMaggio and Joe Louis.

December 1939
Kinnick won the Heisman Trophy following a season in which he scored 107 points, accounted for 998 yards of total offense (a record for an eight-game schedule), led the nation in kickoff-return yardage (377) and tied for the lead in interceptions (8).

September 30, November 25, 1939
Kinnick scored 107 of Iowa's 130 points, running for five scores, throwing for 11 and drop-kicking 11 extra points.

October 28, 1939
A week after suffered its only loss of the season, Kinnick threw a career-best three touchdowns in a 19-13 win at Wisconsin.

September 30, 1939
Kinnick opened his Heisman Trophy-winning season by scoring 23 points on three touchdowns and five conversions in a season-opening 41-0 rout over South Dakota.
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He was the grandson of a governor of Iowa plus he gave up a pro-football career to pursue law school and entered the military. After reading his story I now see why there is a Kinnick Stadium.

Kinnick thought so to and disdained several lucrative pro offers in favor of law school. ?My football career is over,? he said after throwing two TD passes against the Green Bay Packers in the College All-Star Game in the summer of 1940. ?Law is my first priority.?

An honors grad, a distinguished scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Iowa, Kinnick had decided to pursue a political career as he enrolled in law school at Iowa, but World War II intervened. He enlisted in the Naval Air Corps, and his unit was activated three days before Pearl Harbor. Eighteen months later, on a routine training flight from the carrier U.S.S. Lexington off the coast of Venezuela, Kinnick was forced to make an emergency water landing in the Caribbean when oil began leaking from his plane. Neither pilot nor plane was recovered. Nile Kinnick was 24 when he was lost at sea.
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ORD_Buckeye;1853938; said:
Jack got jobbed, but I'll settle for three out of the top 8. Just have to wonder whether Archie and/or Jesse will get downgraded for "balance. Owens at anything other than number one is fucking horse shit.
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And anyone other than Archie at #2 is also total bullshit. One and only two-time Heisman winner. Held records for most consecutive 100-yard games and career 100-yard games (one or both may still stand). All-time leading rusher at Ohio State and #2 all-time in the Big Ten.
 
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matcar;1803312; said:
I think is name is actually spelled Kluszewski. I attended his baseball camps down in Bainbridge as a kid. Great memories...I'll bet that baseball camp doesn't even exist anymore. Sad because it was a great place.
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I also attended his camp and have the same warm memories.
 
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buckeyeintn;1860894; said:
That's insane. Other than Jesse Owens, who remaining even comes close to matching Archie as an icon?
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Pitiful as it is, it's another example of political correctness. Everybody has to get a trophy so they can feel good about themselves. If the B10 network could do something about the Buckeyes winning so many football championships in a row, they would. All the other members of the conference have to feel loved, or it might hurt ratings :( I could maybe understand if they have any non-football players (i.e. Jesse - who should be #1, Spitz, maybe an Iowa wrestler, or even a cross-country track stud) up there, but it will be a joke if any football player is rated above Arch.

It is only a list though, and this is the same organization that gave us Legends and Leaders.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1860893; said:
Was posted in Archie's thread that's he's #5.
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that's just BS plain and simple. I have no idea who the top four will be and if one of them is Magic, who only played two years of college ball, just shows how stupid this show really was from the beginning:!
 
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