 When the College Football Hall of Fame opened in 1951, Duke Slater was the only African-American elected in the Hall’s inaugural class.He was one of two Hawkeye players inducted that year, along with Nile Kinnick.In 1972, University of Iowa president Willard Boyd proposed renaming Iowa Stadium “Kinnick-Slater Stadium” after Nile Kinnick and Duke Slater, but the university decided to name it after Kinnick alone.