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Thus came Death to Knute Kenneth Rockne, famed 43-year-old coach of Notre Dame University's football team. Coach Rockne had boarded the plane that morning at Kansas City, California-bound...
Rockne's Religion Sirs: We note that on p. 2 of TIME for Dec. 22 that Knute Rockne, the famous football coach, was converted to Catholicism some four years ago. We are enclosing a clipping from p. 20 of the Pathfinder for Jan. 3, which states that Rockne is a Protestant. Will you please explain the discrepancy between these two answers to the same question? . . . ALICE W. HICKMAN Sioux City, Iowa Knute Kenneth Rockne became a Roman Catholic...
Chicago: in the first weeks the Blackhawks played phenomenally, justifying the odd theories of OWner Frederic McLaughlin who copied Knute Rockne's football tactics, sent a bigger squad into action than his rivals, got them up for calisthenics at an hour when most hockey players are sleeping. But recently two Chicago players, overtrained, have fainted in action; the team has slipped from first place to second...
...rated higher in the betting odds because: 1) West Coast teams have generally won on their home fields from teams from other parts of the U S. enervated by the sunny weather; 2) Notre Dame had won 18 straight games in two seasons, was thought to be tired. Instead, Knute Rockne's various prancing backfielders at once bewildered the over-rated Trojans with brilliant plays, throwing for losses Southern California's famed Plungers Plinckert and Duffield. Marchmont Schwartz flipped an 11-yd. pass to Quarterback Carideo who trotted eight yards farther for the first touchdown. They made three...
...Knute Rockne Jr., 12, 90 lb., held the ball for kickoffs, chirped the signals, lay back as safety man, slapped the bigger boys on the back and his Pembroke prep school "Midgets" beat the Kansas City "Bearcats" 12 to 0 before and after the first half of the Iowa State-Kansas game at Lawrence...