Nile Kinnick Signed 1940 Football Card Photo PSA DNA Heisman Trophy Winner RARE

All-American halfback and 1939 Heisman Trophy winner (19181943) who became a United States Navy aviator during World War II and died in a training flight off the coast of Venezuela. Rare pencil signature, “Nile Kinnick,” on a 3.5 x 4.5 menu from the “1940 Lyons Club Seventh Annual Football Banquet and Ladies Night,” which featured the All-American halfback as its guest speaker. In fine condition. Encapsulated in a PSA/DNA authentication holder.

Accompanied by a letter of provenance, in part: “The Nile Kinnick signature on the 1940 Lyons Club program in Clinton, Iowa, belonged to our father, Robert Leedham. He was 13 years old in 1940 at the time he attended the Seventh Annual Football Banquet and Ladies Night where Nike Kinnick was the guest speaker. My father was a lifelong resident of Clinton, Iowa, and a graduate of the University of Iowa. I can only guess that as a teenager he knew that evening he was going to hear the 1939 Heisman trophy winner speak and was able to obtain his autograph.”

D#S