Word: knute
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota (1843-1923), who was not without a stubborn streak himself, once remarked, " Andrew's all right, but he's too damn stubborn...
...Coach Knute Rockne, Merlin of football, shuffled his big squad like a pack of cards, sent in quarterback, fullback, halfback?eveyone, in fact, but the hunchback of Notre Dame. Even wizards cannot have a great team every year, and against an Army eleven that looked very much like a great team, his strategy could accomplish little. Score: Army 27; Notre Dame...
...such commercial affairs as the world's series or a heavyweight championship bout. And, from the point of view of the one hundred and twenty thousand spectators, this plan would result in some magnificent football. The committee has secured the endorsement of such demigods of the game as Knute Rockne, Alonzo Stagg and Andy Smith. The prestige of these men, aided by that, of the sesquicentennial itself will probably carry the plan through...
...reluctant summer made the weather uncomfortable for Notre Dame's new machine. Rain oiled its cogs, greased its poles. Inevitably, the team that went into action lacked the rhythm of Knute Rockne's 1924 champions, but few predictions of what it may become in the next few weeks could be based on its effortless, slipshod, 41-0 victory over Baylor University of Waco...
...sprinkle of rain fell; thunder stamped in Heaven; the webbing went up. 'They're 'rorf," shouted William Gibbs McAdoo, Marshall Field, Knute Rockne, Harry F. Sinclair, Walter J. Salmon, many Elks, Knights, a haberdasher, a sculptor, 75,000 assorted odd fellows and their ladies...