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"The author did a great job providing historical information and context, and did so through great storytelling and a novel-like reading experience," Barta said. Anderson, Kinnick and Prasse won national awards, including Kinnick's Heisman Trophy. The Big Ten title slipped past them by half-a-game, with the Ohio State Buckeyes going 5-1 in conference. They didn't lose, but tied Northwestern 7-7. Kinnick took the field again, but could barely hold the football to kick, the Press-Citizen reported. Five starters, tackle Wallace Bergstrom, halfback Floyd Dean, fullback James Murphy, Tollefson and Kinnick all left the game with injuries. What transpired instead was a rash of critical injuries. The season was set to finish in historic fashion as they traveled to Evanston to take on a three-win Northwestern Wildcats team. The following weekend, Kinnick threw two fourth-quarter touchdowns to beat Minnesota. The hoard of hundreds of students were hard to corral, so police stopped traffic instead as students marched through town. "I suppose you think I am going to tell you to get back to your classes, well I'm not," exclaimed Anderson when he saw the crowd. Anderson's 39th birthday that day, so the students en masse marched to his house to cheer him on. There were few objectors," the newspaper wrote. "Festivities started before 8 o'clock when student pickets refused to allow fellow classmates to attend classes. Students took a "self-declared holiday from classes," according to the Press-Citizen the following Monday. 3 nation in the country, the town celebrated. "And yet, all these guys came together and were tremendous individuals and were really a part of Tom Brokaw’s greatest generation," Lidd said.
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Several other players on the team, Lidd said, were orphans. "The team was playing in post-depression, but a lot of these players grew up in the worst of it."ĭespite Kinnick's prestigious family history - his grandfather George Washington Clarke was the governor of Iowa - Kinnick's land-owning dad had to sell his holdings and move to Omaha to work at a bank. Charles Tollefson, a guard for the team, spent time before going to UI homeless. "The team chemistry of these guys was astounding," he said. Most importantly, Lidd said, the players at the core of the 1939 team were born and raised during historically trying times in American history: the Great Depression. It was Iowa's star halfback, Kinnick, who led the team in both passing, with 638 yards, and rushing, with 374 yards, that year. Back then, quarterbacks like Iowa's Al Couppee usually just handed the football off to a running back and blocked. Throwing the football was also a rarity in those days. If all goes smoothly, the expected timeline includes the film being greenlit around Thanksgiving, cast, shoot the film in summer and fall, spend a year editing and premiere the movie before the 2020 season. “We were fortunate enough, through all the support from the university and the alumni to be able to get Nicholas Meyer on board to do the re-write," Heath said. Minutes after getting the confirmation, Heath first made the news public about Meyer working on the film at FryFest, the annual celebration of all things Hawkeye athletics, held the day before the first football game of the season.
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He got confirmation that the man nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for the Sherlock Holmes movie "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" would join the production on Aug. The two met in June and discussed the project over coffee. It’s been a bit of a roller-coaster since we announced it at FryFest,” Heath said. “Once we got the rock that is Nicholas Meyer, it changed everything. Heath said that the production has been working with United Talent Agency and has already done some "soft casting," but that no decisions would be made until a director was on board.