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Died. Charles Emile ("Gus") Dorais, 62, longtime football coach at the University of Detroit (1925-42) and coach of the professional Detroit Lions (1943-47), who as quarterback for Notre Dame, with the late Knute Rockne at end, exploited the little-used forward pass to upset Army. 35-13, and revolutionize football (1913); after long illness; in Birmingham, Mich...
...biggest thrills of my life. I got kind of choked up, and I was awful glad I came here." The Notre Dame indoctrination, particularly of football players, is as relentless as the Marine Corps boot training. Johnny recalls: "The first night, they showed the movie Knute Rockne-All American, with Pat O'Brien and Ronald Reagan [portraying Notre Dame's first football All-America, George Gipp]." Lattner, who was one day to become...
...outfielder, played off and on in the National League until 1919. But it was as a pro footballer that Jim made his fame, if not his fortune. A longtime star of the Canton (Ohio) Bull Dogs, he ended his playing days in 1929, a tough old man of 41. Knute Rockne liked to recall one pro game against Thorpe. Playing end, Rockne twice crashed through the blocking backs and dumped Jim for a loss. "Rock," said Jim, "do you see all those people in the stands? They're here to see the Old Indian run. Be a good...
...National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the national headquarters footed the bills. When it was clear that Kidder would never work at his old job again, his wife sold the Fairfield house and the car and got ready to move in with her father, Ronan's Postmaster Knute Johnson...
When Amos Alonzo Stagg first started to coach football at the University of Chicago, not one of the school's buildings had been finished. Jim Corbett had just won the heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan; Knute Rockne was a four-year-old youngster in Norway; and it was eight years before the founding of baseball's American League. At Chicago only 13 men turned up for football practice, so Coach Stagg, a Walter Camp All-America end at Yale (class of '88), joined the fun and played on the team himself...