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Anderson, in his college days, was an end on Knute Rockne's great 1919-20 teams, playing along with the great George Gipp. He went to medical school three years after he started coaching...
...Charlie Caldwell, voted 1950's top U.S. coach, says that he really learned what modern football was all about on Oct. 25, 1924, a day of massive frustration. Charlie, then a fullback, spent that afternoon backing up the line of a good Princeton team pitted against Knute Rockne's celebrated Four Horsemen. Notre Dame won, 12-0, and it was probably a merciful score...
Amherst College brought a new set of literary influences into his life, especially an eye-opening course in French criticism and the friendship of Professor-Poet David Morton, a fellow DKE. After Amherst-and a summer of football and track coaching with Knute Rockne-Tasker taught English and coached track at Deerfield Academy. While doing graduate work at Columbia University, he began writing book reviews for Outlook and other magazines. After a turn on the Paris Times, he went to Reader's Digest for three years, took time off to edit a weekly newspaper, and spent most...
William D. Rockne, 35, son of Notre Dame's late, famed Football Coach Knute Rockne, was taken to a Wichita, Kans. hospital with bullet wounds in his liver, lung and heart. Police said young Rockne, who spent three years in a mental institution in the '30s, was shot trying to break into the house of a wealthy used-car dealer...
...unquestionably fine musicianship, that produces the results Holmes gets from non-professional musicians. He believes very strongly that the best way to get amateur musicians to work together is to make them enjoy it--"by cracking the quip, if necessary." And his humor technique can be modified into a Knute Rockno pep talk when necessary. Two years ago, he read a somehow dispirited group of Bandsmen a Cornell Band press clipping, in which the last line read "The Harvard Band is also expected to appear." As usual, Holmes' team remained undefeated...