Word: knute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coach of Boston College's undefeated 1940 football team. B. C. released Leahy from a five-year contract, at a salary reputedly higher than the one he will get from Notre Dame. Said Leahy, onetime lineman on the last two teams (1929-30) coached by the late great Knute Rockne: "I want to give them a chance to get back something they gave...
...reign at Notre Dame is the dream of many a college football coach. Yet last week Elmer Layden voluntarily left the campus that had made him famed-first as one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame and later as successor to his teacher, the late great Knute Rockne. The old Horseman took a practical view of the matter. "I did it for the future welfare of my family," said he. "The National Football League is the fastest growing institution in American sport. I hope and believe I can be helpful in the further development of the organization." Layden...
...years new Yorkers have seen the best college basketball in the country. They have seen the champions of the Big Six, Big Seven, Big Ten, the best of the South, West, Southwest. They have seen smooth-clicking Kansas (coached by Phog Allen, the Knute Rockne of basketball) and towering Oregon, a team of super-six footers, whose 6 ft. 7 in. centre can reach eleven feet into the air. But the team 16,000 fans turned out to see last week just on the most exciting show in the Garden's history...
...years before his death, the late, great Knute Rockne was asked to name the best football coach in the U. S. "Modesty forbids," chuckled Rockne. "But if I can name the two best football coaches in America, one of them is going to be Clark Shaughnessy...
...schmaltz could have been dumped on with a steam-shovel, piled high and gooey. But it isn't. It's laid on gently with a medium-sized trowel. This admirable restraint makes "Knute Rockne, All-American" one of the better football pictures of the year, one of the better biographies...