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Died. Brigadier General Robert Reese Neyland, U.S.A. (ret.), 70, aloof, single-wing wizard whom Knute Rockne called "football's greatest coach," a Texas-born, West Point-educated authoritarian who in a quarter century of time borrowed from his official career as an Army engineer built the University of Tennessee's Volunteers into the nation's "winningest" football team, ran up a record of 171 wins...
Your Feb. 9 cover story on Notre Dame was so excellent that I hesitate to nitpick, but the 1913 Notre Dame-Army game in which Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais made football history was played at West Point...
...next major figure in Notre Dame's history was a smash-nosed kid from Chicago, a Norwegian-American Protestant named Knute Rockne. In 1913 obscure little Notre Dame played Army in Yankee Stadium as a filler on West Point's football schedule. Captain Rockne, at left end, and Quarterback Gus Dorais passed Army to death-35 to 13. The stunning upset made Notre Dame famous. From nuns to workingmen, Catholics all over the country began praying on Saturday mornings for Notre Dame victories...
...table in the downstairs lounge, George Gershwin toiled for 16 hours a day over An American in Paris. Promptly at 10 a.m. every Sunday, Hemingway rumbled in to sip his customary tank of whisky sours. The Dolly Sisters made it a port of call, and so did Bill Tilden, Knute Rockne, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Vincent Sheean, Jack Dempsey, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. To casual travelers, and more importantly to American expatriates in the '20s and early '30s, Harry's New York Bar in Paris was a singular institution-a home away from home, a living shrine...
Died. Jesse C. Harper, 77, trail-blazing former Notre Dame Football coach, whose 1913 team, led by Knute Rockne, broke football open by routing Army 35-13 with the game's first all-out passing attack; near Ashland, Kansas...