Word: knute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wily Harry Stuhidreher, using all the mental acumen he acquired quarterbacking the "Four Horsemen" under Knute Rockne, had his second eleven in there the entire third quarter. When the fourth period saw the return of the Badger regulars, tired old Eli gave up the ghost...
...help give Cal's commuters a campus spirit, Sproul sponsors monthly "University Meetings" in the gym or the Greek Theater. He invites V.I.P.s in education, sport, politics and military affairs to headline the bill (top drawing cards: Philosopher John Dewey, the late football coach Knute Rockne). Introducing a student leader who had just been disciplined for raiding the Stanford campus to steal the traditional "Axe" before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view...
...could the brain, protected by the skull, have got such a beating? The investigators, Dr. Harold R. Pratt-Thomas and Dr. Knute E. Berger, admitted that they were baffled, but they strongly suspected that violent stretching and bending of the head might account for it. Said they: "[The blood vessels] could have been damaged by manipulations that forcibly brought them into contact with the cranial case...
French priests founded the university 27 years before intercollegiate football began. Then, in 1910, a broken-nosed Norwegian named Knute Rockne came along, and Notre Dame really started to roll...
Seven Blocks of Granite. Four years before Knute Rockne plane-crashed to death in Kansas, Irishman Frank Leahy came to Notre Dame. He already had determination. He became first-string tackle simply because he practiced blocking, tackling and charging (against dummies) hours after the rest of the team took their showers...