T he baseball-movie canon is ample and largely agreed-upon, but the best football movies have less consensus behind them.

Ever since 1913, when an end named Knute Rockne helped a small Catholic school based in South Bend, Indiana, pull off a stunner by beating Army, Notre Dame has stood as one of the main shapers of ...

The strong Ohio ties of seven Notre Dame head coaches, including former Ohio State player Freeman ... the NFL was founded in Canton in 1920, Knute Rockne played for two of the best pro teams ...

when an end named Knute Rockne helped a small Catholic school based in South Bend, Ind., pull off a stunner by beating Army, Notre Dame has stood as one of the main shapers of college football.

Notre Dame brass didn't like those names, though, because they believed they made the football players sound like ... honoring former Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

ATLANTA — Notre Dame football coach Marcus Freeman walks by a statue of Knute Rockne each time he enters Notre Dame Stadium ... Freeman made sure to familiarize his players with the sightlines and ...

Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach ... He credited the faith of his football players for his conversion to Catholicism in 1925. By the time he died in a plane crash in 1931, Rockne was ...

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when an end named Knute Rockne helped a small Catholic school based in South Bend, Indiana, pull off a stunner by beating Army, Notre Dame has stood as one of the main shapers of college football.

when an end named Knute Rockne helped a small Catholic school based in South Bend, Indiana, pull off a stunner by beating Army, Notre Dame has stood as one of the main shapers of college football.