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" Writing in Collier's more than 20 years earlier, Dorais ' Notre Dame teammate Knute Rockne acknowledged Cochems as the early leader in the use of the pass, observing, " One would have thought that so effective a play would have been instantly copied and become the vogue.
Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais worked on the pass while lifeguarding on a Lake Erie beach at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, during the summer of 1913.
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Knute Kenneth Rockne ( ; March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931 ) was an American football player and coach, both at the University of Notre Dame.
Knute Rockne was born Knut Larsen Rokne in Voss, Norway to the smith and wagonmaker Lars Knutson Rokne ( 1858 – 1912 ) and his wife Martha Pedersdatter Gjermo ( 1859 – 1944 ).
Memorial plaque to Knute Rockne in his birth town of Voss, Norway
* Notre Dame memorializes him in the Knute Rockne Memorial Building, an athletic facility built in 1937, as well as the main football stadium.
* Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania dedicated its gymnasium, Rockne Hall, to Knute Rockne.
* Taylorville, Illinois, dedicated the street next to the football field as " Knute Rockne Road ".
On March 10, 1988, Rockne opened its post office for one day, during which a Knute Rockne twenty-two-cent commemorative stamp was issued.
Knute Rockne memorial on the Kansas Turnpike.
* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.
President Ronald Reagan, who played George Gipp in the movie " Knute Rockne, All American ", gave an address at the Athletic & Convocation Center at the University of Notre Dame on March 9, 1988, and officially unveiled the Rockne stamp.
" Memorializing Knute Rockne at the University of Notre Dame: Collegiate Gothic Architecture and Institutional Identity ," Winterthur Portfolio ( Spring 2012 ), 46 # 1 pp 1-24.
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Knute Nelson was born out of wedlock in Voss, Norway to Ingebjørg Haldorsdatter Kvilekval, who named him Knud Evanger.
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Still others maintain it is of generic Germanic origin, not necessarily Scandinavian, comparing it with the German Knute, Dutch knoet ( both meaning knout ) and with Old Norse knutr, Anglo-Saxon cnotta and English knot.
Shortly after taking off from Kansas City, where he had stopped to visit his two sons, Bill and Knute Jr., who were in boarding school there at the Pembroke-Country Day School, one of the Fokker Trimotor aircraft's wings separated in flight.
Knute Rockne reassembled his Four Horsemen along with the stars of his 1924 Championship squad and told them to score early, then defend.
Although Reagan was initially a small-time B-film actor, Warner Bros. was impressed by his performance in the final scene of Knute Rockne, All American, and agreed to pair him with Errol Flynn in their film Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ).
* March 31 – Knute Rockne, American football coach ( b. 1888 )
* March 4 – Knute Rockne, American football player and coach ( d. 1931 )
Notre Dame legendary football coach Knute Rockne was among the fatalities, prompting extensive media coverage and technical investigation.
Not coincidentally, the NFL commissioner at this time was Elmer Layden, another of Knute Rockne's legendary 1924 backfield.
Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne died in a 1931 plane crash in the county.
In 1931, Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 crashed ten miles south of Cottonwood Falls near the community of Bazaar, killing all eight on board, including Notre Dame University football coach Knute Rockne.
* TWA Flight 599 Memorial, Knute Rockne crash site.
* TWA Flight 599 Memorial, Knute Rockne crash site.
Major area employers include Alexandria Public Schools, Douglas County Hospital, Douglas Machine, Tastefully Simple, Knute Nelson, the County of Douglas, 3M, Alexandria Industries, and Alexandria Technical and Community College.
The Alexandria Beetles are a baseball team that plays in the Northwoods League that play out of Knute Nelson Memorial Park.
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Rockne learned to play football in his neighborhood and later played end in a local group called the Logan Square Tigers.
After Rockne graduated from high school, he took a job as a mail dispatcher with the Chicago Post Office for four years.
Rockne excelled as a football end while at the university, winning All-American honors in 1913.
Led by quarterback Charlie " Gus " Dorais and Rockne, the Notre Dame team attacked the Cadets with an offense that featured both the expected powerful running game but also long and accurate downfield forward passes from Dorais to Rockne.
During 13 years as head coach, Rockne led his " Fighting Irish " to 105 victories, 12 losses, five ties, and three national championships, including five undefeated seasons without a tie.
Rockne posted the highest all-time winning percentage (. 881 ) for an American FBS / Division I college football coach.
Rockne introduced the " shift ", with the backfield lining up in a T formation and then quickly shifting into a box to the left or right just as the ball was snapped.
Rockne was also shrewd enough to recognize that intercollegiate sports had a show-business aspect.
For all his success, Rockne also made what an Associated Press writer called " one of the greatest coaching blunders in history.
" Instead of coaching his 1926 team against Carnegie Tech, Rockne traveled to Chicago for the Army – Navy Game to " write newspaper articles about it, as well as select an All-America football team.
On November 10, 1928, when the " Fighting Irish " team was losing to Army 6-0 at the end of the half, Rockne entered the locker room and told the team the words he heard on Gipp's deathbed in 1920: " I've got to go, Rock.
Rockne died in a plane crash in Kansas on March 31, 1931, while en route to participate in the production of the film The Spirit of Notre Dame.
The plane crashed into a wheat field near Bazaar, Kansas, killing Rockne and seven others.
Rockne was buried in Highland Cemetery in South Bend.
Rockne was not the first coach to use the forward pass, but he helped popularize it nationally.
Most football historians agree that a few schools, notably Saint Louis University ( under coach Eddie Cochems ), Michigan, Carlisle and Minnesota, had passing attacks in place before Rockne arrived at Notre Dame.
In the summer of 1913, while he was a lifeguard on the beach at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, Rockne and his college teammate and roommate Gus Dorais worked on passing techniques.
* His name appears on streets in South Bend and in Stevensville, Michigan ( where Rockne had a summer home ) and a travel plaza on the Indiana Toll Road.
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