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George Gipp (February 18, 1895 – December 14, 1920), nicknamed "the Gipper", was an American college football player at the University of Notre Dame under head coach Knute Rockne. [1] Gipp was selected as Notre Dame's first Walter Camp All-American , [ 2 ] and played several positions, particularly halfback , quarterback , and punter .
The American Cincinnatus: [1] Like the famous Roman, he won a war, then became a private citizen instead of seeking power or riches as a reward. He became the first president general of the Society of the Cincinnati, formed by Revolutionary War officers who also "declined offers of power and position to return to his home and plough".
Knute Rockne, All American is a 1940 American biographical film that tells the story of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame's legendary football coach. It stars Pat O'Brien as Rockne and Ronald Reagan as player George Gipp, as well as Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Bassermann, Owen Davis Jr., Nick Lukats, Kane Richmond, William Marshall and William Byrne.
The Republican Party will hold a presidential candidates debate at the Ronald Reagan library Wednesday. It's a bad fit. The GOP's modern idol is exactly the opposite of Reagan in personality and ...
Now that's winning one for "The Gipper"-- the late actor and President Ronald Reagan. The film "Reagan" has surged to the top of the home sales charts following President-elect Donald Trump's ...
And now Quaid, who says he has "always been an independent" voter, is playing the man he voted for twice and calls "my favorite president." Quaid, 70, stars as The Gipper in "Reagan" (in theaters ...
Variants of the phrase often are used interchangeability such as "Gipper's Stool" or "Reagan's Stool".Ronald Reagan coined the term as a way to describe the Republican party as a three part coalition based on the social conservatives (consisting of the Christian right and paleo-conservatives), war hawks (consisting of interventionists and neoconservatives), and fiscal conservatives (consisting ...
Ronald Wilson Reagan [a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement.