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Your interesting article "Bicarbonated Energy," relating the experiences of the Germans with alkalinization of athletes to improve their stamina [TIME, March 1], does not do justice to one of America's most famed trainers of athletes, the late Knute Rockne, who for years before his leath insisted on the use of citrocarbonate, which is an alkalizer, for just this purpose throughout the athletic department at Notre Dame University. Often the consumption of alkali there amounted to 100 lb. in a year, which seems to indicate Mr. Rockne's belief in the alkalinization theory was established a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...lately-deceased Catholics who might fit Father Feeney's specifications, and whose friends could be counted upon to push their saintly causes, the best known would be Wartime Chaplain Rev. Francis P. Duffy, Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees) and Football Coach Knute Rockne. All are known to have lived impeccable Catholic lives; two met violent deaths. But no instance has yet been publicized of miracles having been performed through their intercession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Knute, St. Joyce? | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...professional football has been in a sense the history of the Green Bay Packers. Organized in 1919. the Packers are the oldest team in the National League. Coach of the Packers since 1919 has been Earl Louis ("Curly") Lambeau, a Green Bay boy who played at Notre Dame in Knute Rockne's first year as head coach. He organized the team, got a local packing company to supply uniforms. Since 1921, when they bought a franchise in the National League, the Packers have not only made the little dairy town of Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pay Checks and Packers | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

UNTIL, the bleak afternoon in Evanston when the referee moved the ball to Minnesota's one year line and a Northwestern touchdown, it was well known that Minnesota had been playing football since 1932 without a single defeat. Coach Bernie Bierman wore Knute Rockne's mantle; to Minneapolis citizens from bellboy up, the garment even seemed a bit snug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

...Spaulding Jr., son of the football coach at University of California at Los Angeles, is a halfback on his father's team. Andy Kerr Jr. plays on his father's squad at Colgate. Vanderbilt Coach Ray Morrison's Son Jack is a halfback at Southern Methodist. Knute Rockne Jr. is quarterback of the Miami Military Academy team, headed for Notre Dame next year. At Baltimore last week, Bill Ingram, son of Navy's onetime Coach Jonas Ingram and nephew of Navy's onetime Coach Bill Ingram, drop-kicked Navy's third-period field goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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