As Notre Dame's head coach from 1918 to 1930, Rockne posted the all-time highest winning percentage (. 881 ) for a football coach, either college or professional.

Knute Rockne has the highest win percentage (. 881 ) in football history, college or professional.

Coach Reade's overall winning percentage of 87 % is second only to Larry Kehres and Knute Rockne on the all-time list.

Rockne excelled as a football end while at the university, winning All-American honors in 1913.

His winning percentage of. 864 is the second best in NCAA Division I football history, trailing only that fellow Notre Dame Fighting Irish coach, Knute Rockne, for whom Leahy played from 1928 to 1930.

The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame comprised a winning group of American football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne.

After Rockne graduated from high school, he took a job as a mail dispatcher with the Chicago Post Office for four years.

" 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 March 10, 1988, Rockne opened its post office for one day, during which a Knute Rockne twenty-two-cent commemorative stamp was issued.

* 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.

* " The Rock ," a nickname for the Knute Rockne Memorial athletic facility on the University of Notre Dame

Though Studebaker's production and sales had been booming, the market collapsed and plans were laid for a new, small, low-cost car — the Rockne.

* 14 December — death of Notre Dame player George Gipp ( 1895 – 1920 ), mainly remembered for his deathbed quote to coach Knute Rockne: " Win just one for the Gipper ".

While studying at seminary, Jenson also met and married Blanche Rockne, who became one of the major stimuli for his theological work ( one of his later books includes a dedication to Blanche, " the mother of all my theology ").

Born in Laurium, Michigan, he entered Notre Dame intending to play baseball for the Fighting Irish, but was recruited by Knute Rockne for the football team, despite having no experience in organized football.

Like Rockne before him, Layden was a goodwill ambassador for Notre Dame.

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.

Like his former coach, Knute Rockne, Leahy believed that games were won in practice and had the reputation for being relentless.

Knute Rockne still holds the record for most wins as Notre Dame Head Coach.

Among the events that occurred during Rockne ’ s tenure none may be more famous than the Rockne ’ s Win one for the Gipper speech.

The brand was named for University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.

" 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.

Knute Kenneth Rockne ( ; March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931 ) was an American football player and coach, both at the University of Notre Dame.

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.

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 )

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It was the first movie that the Notre Dame administration allowed to be shot on campus since Knute Rockne, All American in 1940.

Stagg played himself in the movie Knute Rockne, All American released in 1940.

* Knute Rockne ( 1888 – 1931 ) was an American football player and coach

seaQuest DSV is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O ' Bannon.

* 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.

He played the childhood version of the title character in Knute Rockne, All American, perhaps the most prestigious film in which he had a role.

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.

), 1938's A Slight Case of Murder with Edward G. Robinson, 1939's Invisible Stripes with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, 1939's The Oklahoma Kid with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, 1940's Knute Rockne, All American with Pat O ' Brien and Ronald Reagan ( as " the Gipper "), 1943's Action in the North Atlantic, and 1944's The Fighting Sullivans with Anne Baxter and Thomas Mitchell.

After that he had roles that included playing a sergeant in the Western Stagecoach ( 1939 ) starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne ; an intern in The Return of Dr. X, starring Humphrey Bogart ; a New York reporter in Knute Rockne, All American ( 1940 ) starring Pat O ' Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Crisp ; a reporter in the post-Hollywood Production Code version of The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor ; and a reporter in Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ) starring James Cagney and Walter Huston.

* Knute Rockne, All American ( 1940 ) ( uncredited ), New York reporter when Knute is ill

Page appeared in only 16 films during her career, including Heart of the North ( 1938 ), You Can't Get Away with Murder ( 1939 ), Naughty but Nice ( 1939 ), Indianapolis Speedway ( 1939 ), A Child is Born ( 1939 ), They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), Knute Rockne, All American ( 1940 ), The Time of Your Life ( 1948 ) and Anna Lucasta ( 1949 ).

The Rockne was an American automobile brand produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana from 1932-1933.

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O ’ Brien may be best remembered for his role as a police detective opposite George Raft in Some Like It Hot and the title role of a football coach in Knute Rockne, All American ( 1940 ), where he gave the speech to “ win just one for the Gipper ,” referring to recently deceased football player, George Gipp, portrayed in the film by a young Ronald W. Reagan.