Word: knute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teased their marching song at parties with a parody beginning: "Shame, shame on old Notre Dame. The Jews and the Polaks have stolen your game." Some plastic work to spread his nose and blondined hair and eyebrows change the O'Brien face into a reasonable facsimile of Norse Knute Rockne. When Bonnie Skiles Rockne, who was brought to Hollywood for technical advice, had her first look at O'Brien's makeup, she pleased the publicity department by admitting: "I expected him to come up and make love to me." Such authenticity is not the hallmark of Knute...
Originating the Notre Dame shift at the burlesque show and the forward pass at a bathing beach, pat O'Brien, with nose pushed left, gives an entertaining but not convincing performance as "Knute Rockne--All-American." Only Ronald Reagen sparks the picture as George Gipp, Rock's greatest player. His sincere death bed histrionics make the flabby sentimentality of the last quarter of the picture worse by comparison...
...football team like Boston College. The grateful New England scribes would probably nick-name the backfield "the scrambled eggs" in honor of Dick Harlow. The newest angle to be played up for a local consumption is the likening of Coach Frank Leahy of Boston College to the immortal Knute Rockne (Leahy's team accomplished the stupendous feat of beating Tulane, which has yet to win its first game this year). Dave Egan was only groping around in the dark last spring, letting loose an occasional blast at Harvard, but this fall he found the nice-sounding rallying point...