Team members (top) H. H. Kildee, (middle) Howard Phillips, George Godfrey, (center) M. Ward Miner, (lower) H. L. Thornton, Prof. W. Dinsmore.
The 1908 Livestock Judging Team was first at the International, competing against Canada, Ohio, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska and Minnesota. Iowa was first on cattle, first on horses and first on all classes of stock, beating all competing teams by 220 points in grand total. This International team (comprised of Kildee, Godfrey, Phillips, Miner and Thornton) won three Armour Scholarships, and H. H. Kildee (top center picture), won the gold medal offered by the International for highest excellence in all around stock judging, thus bring team and individual horses to Iowa. The team of Kildee, Godfrey, Thornton, Phillips and Joiner was second at the Kansas City Royal.