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...house he finds a mirror "with the silver mostly gone, as if all its reflections had worn it through." He hikes to the spot near Bazaar where, in 1931, the Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven other men died in a plane crash, after which local people carried pieces off for keepsakes. A woman tells him about running a health-food restaurant in a little burg called Cottonwood Falls: "We never did get the farmers to eat alfalfa sprouts. They know silage when they...
...conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has been trucked in for the occasion. The Four Horsemen start to applaud between movements of Debussy's L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune and are embarrassed. Stuhldreher frowns, then whispers something to Crowley. From two rows back, Fielding Yost shushes him. Nearby, Knute Rockne is worried he will not have enough money to pay his hotel bill. New Orleans seems a lot fancier than South Bend...
Just plain Lou Holtz. The name doesn't resonate like Knute Rockne or George Gipp, men around whom the legend of Notre Dame football has been molded. It doesn't sound larger than life, like the Four Horsemen or the Golden Boy, players who subsequently graced the annals of the Fighting Irish. Nor does it seem of sufficient luster to be mentioned in the same sentence with Frank Leahy and Ara Parseghian, coaches who won multiple national championships and were subsequently canonized by fanatic subway alumni. Holtz would be the first to agree with all this. "All I ever wanted...
While it is possible that on his deathbed young George beseeched coach Knute Rockne to win one someday for the Gipper, it would have been more in character for Gipp to want to get $500 down on the streptococci. Myths, legends and lies are the beams and girders of games, but isn't it a bit much the way the country has been getting ready to be appalled by Pete Rose? O.K., he's a plunger. Everyone knows gambling pervades sports. It pervades life...
...want any face being pushed out of shape. It is awful." Maybe he should get back in the movies to show them how? "I think that would look like trying to cash in on the presidency," he says. "Besides, if they did a remake of a Knute Rockne picture, this time I would have to play Rockne instead of the Gipper...