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Chennault created the Flying Tigers as Knute Rockne created the great teams of Notre Dame. And in their sphere the Flying Tigers are as fine a team as Notre Dame ever was. Flying U.S.-made P-40s of outmoded design, always short of equipment and ammunition, always hiding out from the Jap while they were on the ground, the A.V.G.s ran up a score never equaled. They knocked better than 300 Japanese planes out of the air, destroyed a hundred or so on the ground, saved many a ground force with its back to the wall. A.V.G...
...football team in the U.S. Its roster included four players who have since become famed football coaches: George Halas (Chicago Bears), Jimmy Conzelman (Chicago Cardinals), Charlie Bachman (Michigan State) and Paddy Driscoll (backfield coach for Halas' Bears). Although they played first-rate teams, including one of Knute Rockne's strongest Notre Dame elevens, Great Lakes' fabulous gobs sailed undefeated through the 1918 season, wound up in the Rose Bowl...
...farm-to pursue his twin hobbies of raising cattle and painting landscapes-football's Saturday-night round-table exhumed many a Zuppke yarn. Bob Zuppke never lost his "Dutch brogue," is nearly as famed a raconteur as coach. His pet butt used to be Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, of whom he once said: "Everybody vants to know vat Rock puts in his football besides vind...
...Rissman Trophy, put up by a Chicago tailor and sewed up by
Notre Dame in 1930; the Knute Rockne Trophy, sponsored by Notre Dame's Four
Horsemen and awarded to Minnesota last fall.
* Held by Minnesota Halfback Bud Higgins.
...Married. Knute Rockne Jr., son of the late, great football coach; and Margaret Siewert; in South Bend...