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French priests founded the university 27 years before intercollegiate football began. Then, in 1910, a broken-nosed Norwegian named Knute Rockne came along, and Notre Dame really started to roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crusaders & Slaves | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

...looks younger) and also a second-year Cadet. He was just about the best schoolboy athlete ever grown in Southern California. At Claremont, a citrus-belt town of well-manicured lawns and ivy-covered homes, his high-school sports were football, baseball, basketball and track. He won the Knute Rockne Trophy for being Southern California's outstanding schoolboy track star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...Inscribed on the trophy is the late great Knute Rockne's favorite poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Cigar-chewing, grey-haired West Pointer Twining is an old footballer, likes to have ex-athletes on his staffs. When he replacedable Curtis LeMay in Guam last week, he said of his new command: "It's like taking over the Notre Dame football team from Knute Rockne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: COMMAND: The Champ | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...over Stanford, Iowa Pre-Flight and Illinois. That time, he admits, he was so scared the kids had to calm him down. This time, the happy-go-lucky Texan (he played for Texas Tech) has half-kidded, half-finessed his man-sized freshmen into blocking and tackling the way Knute Rockne's veterans once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Down, Eight to Go | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

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