Between Touchdown Jesus, “Win One for the Gipper," Rudy, and, yes, even the forward pass, there are those who believe ...
“Knute Rockne, All American,” then used it as a campaign slogan that helped propel him to the presidency in 1980. When Rockne himself died tragically in a plane crash in 1931, it cemented a ...
Ever since 1913, when an end named Knute Rockne helped a small Catholic ... the Four Horsemen rode again.” And it was Rockne who, after the tragic death of running back George Gipp, (maybe ...
With the Fighting Irish waking up the echoes and playing for a title again after a generation-long retreat from the limelight ...