Kinnick High School that these are not the droids they’re looking for. Hamill, in Japan on a publicity junket for the July 1 opening of “Star Wars” in Tokyo and Osaka, took a sentimental ...

He was the best at the high school level in football and basketball ... Growing up wanting to play at Kinnick Stadium and bringing 70,000 to their feet was a dream he was living out in real ...

The team shut out every opponent. As a junior at Adel High School, Kinnick scored more than a third of his team's points in basketball. In his three seasons, he scored more than 1,000 points.

He was a star athlete in football and basketball at Adel High School for three years before the family moved to Omaha, Neb., after his junior year. Kinnick grew to be 5-8 and 170 pounds.