Word: knute
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Praised by the late Knute Rockne as the "ideal quarterback," Stuhldreher became head football coach at Villanova after graduation in 1925, turned out hard-playing, fast-moving teams which in eleven years won 66 games, lost 25, tied nine. Two of the teams which his new charges have to face next autumn are Notre Dame, piloted by Elmer Layden, another of the Four Horsemen, and Purdue, coached by Noble Kizer, who played guard on that same famed eleven...
...football ever since early season results made it clear that Ohio State had a championship-calibre team. Last week unbeaten Ohio State's opponent was great Notre Dame, on its way back to the prestige and glory of days when its teams were coached by the late great Knute Rockne. This Notre Dame team had beaten Navy, Pitt, Wisconsin, Carnegie Tech, Kansas. Ohio State looked like the hardest jump in the country's hardest schedule. Day of the game, a ticket for one of the 81,000 seats in the Ohio State stadium was worth $20. The Ohio...
...drinking and carousing," exclaimed Gipsy Smith, hard-hitting English evangelist. "Some strong man is needed to start such a custom here in America today. Someone should rise and say, 'We are all Christians--let us show it by singing 'Nearer My God To Thee' or 'Abide With Me.' Knute Rockne could have done it," declared Mr. Smith...
...best Notre Dame team since Knute Rockne gave Navy a businesslike beating...
...Hanley, an oldster of Knute Rockne's last team who had been kept out of college by illness in 1931 and 1932, and for a Notre Dame team that has shown flashes of greatness, that play was a satisfactory climax for the season. Earlier in the game, mainly a battle between two titanic lines, a long Notre Dame pass and a short Army pass had given each team a touchdown. Two minutes later the gun made the final score Notre Dame 12, Army...