Word: knute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven years ago, the University of Notre Dame campus experienced the nearest thing to an earthquake it had known in 107 years of history. By order of suave, iron-willed Football Coach Frank Leahy, the revered Notre Dame shift, perfected by the great Knute Rockne and immortalized by such Notre Dame heroes as Christy Flanagan and the Four Horsemen, was unceremoniously junked. To replace it, Leahy wheeled in the T-formation...
...Palm Springs, Calif, last week, football's eldest statesman had a few words to say. White-haired Amos Alonzo Stagg, who began coaching when Knute Rockne was a two-year-old boy in Norway, had forgotten more about the game than some of the younger coaches present ever knew. He originated such things as the end-around play, the fake kickoff and the tackling dummy-and at 86, is still going strong as coach at Susquehanna University. Said Stagg at a National Collegiate Athletic Association rules committee meeting, where free substitution was the main topic...
...University of Southern California player made All-America-though U.S.C. gloriously wound up the season last week by tying Notre Dame, 14-14. The tie broke Notre Dame's string of victories at 21, one more than Knute Rockne's record...
Things hadn't been that way in the great Knute Rockne's day. Rockne, like Leahy, had walloped the daylights out of the opposition. But somehow he also made them like it, or at least bear it. When once asked who he thought was the greatest football coach, Rockne winked and said: "Modesty forbids . . but I'll tell you who the two greatest coaches are and one of them is . . ." To win consistently and get away with it nowadays requires the talent of a diplomat as well as that of a coach. Leahy...
...they were charter alumni. When it first visited West Point in 1913, Notre Dame was an unsung little Indiana college. In those days spectators got in free, Notre Dame got $1,000 guarantee for the trip and cleared $83 profit. In this game the late, great Knute Rockne (an end) and Gus Dorais (a quarterback) put on a great passing show. Until three years ago, Notre Dame had a top-heavy edge of 22 victories to five losses. Then, while Leahy was off to war, Army's super-dupers, led by the great Davis & Blanchard, humbled the proud Irish...