[10] Freshmen were prohibited from playing varsity football, so Kiick spent the 1936 season on the freshman team of the Bucknell Bisons.

[12] As a sophomore Kiick was quickly added to the Bisons' starting eleven by Bucknell head coach Al Humphreys.

[13] Wilton Hazzard, writing in Illustrated Football Annual magazine, a major national publication of the day, was most enthusiastic about Kiick's abilities, reckoning him as one of "the stars of 1939" in the collegiate game.

"This fish-hook fingered 200-pound basketball ace can snare long passes like a [Larry] Kelley, hit the line like Clarke Hinkle, or lay back and smear them like the great blond Ernie Nevers," Hazzard wrote.

[14] He repeated his high school feat of dual captaincy in both football and basketball for Bucknell in his senior year of 1939–40, gaining national recognition on the gridiron as an honorable mention choice for All-American.

[12] He was named a member of the Northern Team for the 1939 Blue-Gray All-Star Game, playing in the second and fourth quarters in a 32–20 losing effort.

[12] Kiick fought in Europe, winning a Silver Star for gallantry as well as being awarded a Purple Heart for injuries sustained.

[12] He later became a coach at Butler High School in Morris County, New Jersey, making his home in neighboring Lincoln Park for the rest of his life.

[12] George Kiick died March 21, 2002, at Chilton Memorial Hospital in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, after a two year illness.