Apr 4, 2019 · That tradition began on April 4, 1931, almost without anyone realizing it, when CBS Radio broadcast the funeral of Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne, who died four days earlier in the crash of a...

Pallbearers Marty Brill, Marchy Schwartz, Tom Conley, Frank Carideo, Tommy Yarr, and Larry Mullins carrying Knute Rockne’s casket out of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart following his funeral. President Herbert Hoover declared Rockne’s death “a national loss.”

South bend, lnd , April 9 -With the blessing of the body, music by the Moreau choir, ami a moving tribute by the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, CS C . president bf Notre Dame, funeral services for Knute Kenneth Rockne were held last Saturday afternoon in Sacred Heart Church on the quadrangle of the University.

Mar 23, 2019 · Eighty-eight years ago this month, legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven other men lost their lives in a fatal plane crash in the Flint Hills. Guest Commentator Bobbie Athon explains what happened near Bazaar, Kansas, on March 31, 1931.

His funeral service was held at Sacred Heart Church located on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. His body lay in state at his home on Wayne Street, and the procession to the church was witnessed by some 300,000 mourners.

Oct 2, 2024 · At the request of the Rockne family, the University of Notre Dame was honored to assist with the disinterment of the remains of football player, coach and athletic director Knute Rockne and several Rockne family members from Highland Cemetery in South Bend and their subsequent burial on April 28, 2024, at Cedar Grove Cemetery on campus.

Apr 2, 2021 · Thousands attended Rockne’s funeral inside and outside Sacred Heart Church on the university’s campus. Thousands, if not millions, listened as CBS broadcast the funeral live to all 79 of its affiliates, the first of its kind.

Apr 29, 2024 · The Rockne family plot, including the grave of legendary football coach Knute Rockne, has been relocated to Cedar Grove Cemetery at Notre Dame.

Dec 3, 2015 · It was an unlikely spot for a national story – the Flint Hills of Kansas in the early 1930s. A place far from the national spotlight soon attracted attentio...

That was evidenced at the funeral held at Notre Dame’s Sacred Heart Church (now Basilica) on April 4, 1931, four days after Rockne’s death in an airline accident in Kansas. “It was a major, major event,” Knute III says.