Word: knute
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a game, Schwartzwalder gives his team a mild tongue-lashing as a stimulant but avoids oldtime histrionics. "If Knute Rockne came into my locker room and gave one of his fight talks, the kids would laugh him right out of the place," he says. "You can't fool them. When I was a player, Greasy Neale tried to tell us three weeks running to go out and win the game for his dying mother. And there she was every game, sittin' up in the stands...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The life of legendary Notre Dame Football Coach Knute Rockne, reconstructed from a cache of film that has been gathering mildew in the university's files for 27 years...
...chance to toss in the names or quick flashes of the faces of the West Pointers who later became national heroes: MacArthur, Patton, Bradley, Stratemeyer, Wainwright, Van Fleet, and in the scene depicting the first Army-Notre Dame football game of 1913, a fierce young Notre Dame end, Knute Rockne. There is also a glimpse of another of Maher's favorite lads: a blond, pink-faced boy named-Dwight Eisenhower (played by Harry Carey Jr.). ^ There is plenty of competent acting in Gray Line, by such regulars as Power, O'Hara, Donald Crisp and Ward Bond...
...Braves and the Green Bay Packers, former spare-time "honorary coach" of the Notre Dame football team; and Frederick C. Miller Jr., 20, Notre Dame student; in a private-plane crash; at Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field. An All-America tackle and team captain at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne and a sportsman ever since, Miller took over the family brewery in 1947, with shrewd advertising (for year-round, quality trade) and an expanded plant and distribution network nearly quadrupled annual sales in six years, putting Miller among the top ten U.S. beer producers...
Died. Glenn Scobey ("Pop") Warner, 83, one of the two most powerful forces in American football history (the other: Notre Dame's Knute Rockne), originator of the unbalanced line, the single wing, the double wing in his 45 years of coaching at Iowa State, Georgia, Carlisle, Pittsburgh, Cornell, Stanford, Temple (see SPORT...