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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 ).
Knute Rockne bronze sculpture in Voss, Norway.
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.
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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.
* 1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
Not coincidentally, the NFL commissioner at this time was Elmer Layden, another of Knute Rockne's legendary 1924 backfield.
Knute Rockne memorial at Kansas Turnpike Authority rest stop
Also in 1934, he became head coach and athletic director at Notre Dame, a few years after his legendary mentor Knute Rockne was killed in a plane crash.
White's presence at Port Hudson is supported by a secondhand account of a postwar dinner conversation he had with Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, a Union veteran of Port Hudson, and another recounted by Admiral George Dewey ( then a Federal naval officer at Port Hudson ), in both of which White mentioned his presence during the siege.
He stated his life's early ambition was to play football for Knute Rockne at the University of Notre Dame, but he had " more brawn than brains.
" A knee injury slowed him during the latter part of his senior season, but he still was able to perform at a high level and won a number of major individual awards including the Knute Rockne Award, best lineman, the Outland Trophy, best interior lineman, and the Maxwell Award for college football ’ s best player.
The team plays at Knute Nelson Memorial Park in Alexandria, Minnesota.
The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame comprised a winning group of American football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne.
* Jesse Harper ( class of 1902 ) coached Knute Rockne ( who would immediately follow him ) as head football coach at the University of Notre Dame ( 1913 – 17 ).

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* " The Rock ," a nickname for the Knute Rockne Memorial athletic facility on the University of Notre Dame
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.
As a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School he cut his political teeth in Washington as executive clerk to Senator Knute Nelson.
College football captivated fans, with notables such as Red Grange, running back of the University of Illinois, and Knute Rockne who coached Notre Dame's football program to great success on the field and nation-wide notoriety.
He attended the University of Notre Dame, where he played football as a tackle on Knute Rockne's last three teams ( 1928 – 1930 ), and graduated from the university in 1931.
Bacon attended Santa Clara University, and would later include highlights from the Bronco Football program in the end of his famous film, Knute Rockne, All American.
In 1969 Randolph – Macon defeated the University of Bridgeport ( Connecticut ) 47 – 28 in the Knute Rockne Bowl laying claim to a shared College Division National Championship with Wittenberg University ( Springfield, Ohio ) which had defeated William Jewell College in the Alonzo Stagg Bowl.
" One of the leading rumors for him leaving is the University " pushed " him out because they did not want him to have more wins than Knute Rockne's 105 wins, which he probably would have exceeded had he coached one more year.
The brand was named for University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.
University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne received credit for " Advice in Football Technique ".
Mr. Brown was a friend and confidant of legendary University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.

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