Word: knute
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profusely illustrated book offers an informative history of college football--the great teams, stars, plays, and coaches of its 103 years. The story focuses particularly on the strategists whose genius shaped the game. Among the all-time great coaches included here are Pop Warner, Hurry-Up Yost, Alonzo Stagg, Knute Rockne, and Woody Hayes, to name but a few. Here, too, are the players--men like Jim Thorpe, George Gipp, Red Grange, Tom Harmon, and Johnny Lujack. Kaye places the story in the context of its times, finding both heroes and victims, but concentrating always on how the masterminds...
Died. Francis William Leahy, 64, football coach at Notre Dame who stepped into Knute Rockne's shoes but did not quite fill them; of congestive heart failure following a long illness; in Portland, Ore. Raised in the prophetically named town of Winner, S. Dak., Leahy attended Notre Dame where he played on the undefeated 1929 national championship team. After various coaching jobs-including six years at Fordham, where he taught future Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi-Leahy returned to Notre Dame in 1941 and led the Irish to their first undefeated season since Rockne's days. Known...
Hall of Famers Knute Rockne and Amos Alonzo Stagg didn't start their long reigns as football mentors until after they reached...
...contrasts Nixon's 1968 acceptance speech with Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which it mimics. Then, there are flashbacks in the middle of Nixon's "Let's win this one for Ike" exhortation to Pat O'Brien's "Win one for the Gipper" scene in Knute Rockne. The first is sad, the second, hilarious...
...when it works, De Antonio's sense of juxtaposition can be lethal. News film of Nixon's 1968 nomination acceptance speech ("Let's win this one for Ike") is intercut with footage of Pat O'Brien in Knute Rockne advising his lachrymose squad to "win one for the Gipper"-their hospitalized teammate, who, with anachronistic irony, was portrayed by Ronald Reagan. De Antonio is also shrewd enough to know when Nixon is his own worst enemy, and he devotes a long section of Millhouse to the Checkers speech alone. Reciting his list of assets, attempting...