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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.
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Rockne and died
A vote was taken, with the children electing to name the town after Rockne, who had died in a plane crash earlier that year.
Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne died in a 1931 plane crash in the county.
George " the Gipper " Gipp was a player on Rockne ’ s earlier teams who died of strep throat in 1920.
Rockne, aged 43, died in the plane crash of TWA Flight 599 in Kansas on March 31, 1931, while on his way to help in the production of the film The Spirit of Notre Dame.
Rockne and plane
The plane crashed into a wheat field near Bazaar, Kansas, killing Rockne and seven others.
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.
Mr. Brown and former Notre Dame running back Marchy Schwartz had dinner with Mr. Rockne in Chicago the night before his ill fated plane crash.
Rockne and crash
* TWA Flight 599 Memorial, Knute Rockne crash site.
* TWA Flight 599 Memorial, Knute Rockne crash site.
The crash site, located in a remote expanse of Kansas known as the Flint Hills, now features a Rockne Memorial.
On March 31, 1931, 12 days after being appointed manager of sales promotion, Knute Rockne was killed in an airplane crash.
Rockne and Kansas
Knute Rockne memorial on the Kansas Turnpike.
* 1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
Knute Rockne memorial at Kansas Turnpike Authority rest stop
* March 31 – Transcontinental and Western Airways Flight 599, a Fokker F. 10, crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing all eight on board, including American football coach Knute Rockne.
* On March 31, 1931, Notre Dame Coach Knute Rockne was killed on Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 from Kansas City to Los Angeles when the Fokker Trimotor broke up in a storm over Bazaar, Kansas.
Rockne and on
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.
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.
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.
A life size bust of Rockne was unveiled on March 4, 2006.
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.
* " The Rock ," a nickname for the Knute Rockne Memorial athletic facility on the University of Notre Dame
LCRA buys natural gas on the open market and stores it at the Hilbig Gas Storage Facility, an underground reservoir near Rockne.
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.
According to the team, each time they played Rockne, he was on a different team.
It was the first movie that the Notre Dame administration allowed to be shot on campus since Knute Rockne, All American in 1940.
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.
Coach Reade's overall winning percentage of 87 % is second only to Larry Kehres and Knute Rockne on the all-time list.
Notre Dame, on the other hand, was having their worst season under Rockne ’ s leadership and entered the game with a 4 – 2 record.
The last game Rockne coached was on December 14, 1930 when he led a group of Notre Dame all-stars against the New York Giants in New York City.
Rockne and March
Knute Kenneth Rockne ( ; March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931 ) was an American football player and coach, both at the University of Notre Dame.
On March 10, 1988, Rockne opened its post office for one day, during which a Knute Rockne twenty-two-cent commemorative stamp was issued.
* March 31 – Knute Rockne, American football coach ( b. 1888 )
* March 4 – Knute Rockne, American football player and coach ( d. 1931 )
When Studebaker went into receivership on March 18, 1933, it was decided to move production of the Rockne to the Studebaker plant in South Bend.
Rockne and 1931
* The Studebaker automobile company of South Bend marketed the Rockne automobile between 1931 and 1933.
* Knute Rockne ( 1931 ) tone poem
Erskine maintained faith in the Rockne and rashly had the directors declare huge dividends in 1930 and 1931.
* Knute Rockne ( 1888 – 1931 ) was an American football player and coach
The Rockne moniker was a later adoption so, technically, there were no 1931 Rocknes.
In September, 1931, George M. Graham, formerly of Willys-Overland, was named sales manager of the new Rockne Motor Corporation.
Production of the Rockne " 75 " began at South Bend on December 15, 1931.
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