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Knute Kenneth Rockne (/(k ə) ˈ n uː t ˈ r ɒ k n i /; [3] [4] March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was an American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.Leading Notre Dame for 13 seasons, Rockne accumulated over 100 wins and three national championships.
The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame comprised a group of American football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne. They were the backfield of Notre Dame's 1924 football team. The players that made up this group were Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden. [1]
The Transcontinental and Western Air flight was a Fokker F.10 Trimotor en route from Kansas City to Los Angeles on March 31, 1931. [2] On the first leg of the flight to Wichita, the airplane crashed into an open field [note 2] a few miles southwest of Bazaar; all eight on board died, including famed football coach Knute Rockne, of the University of Notre Dame.
Ever since 1913, when an end named Knute Rockne helped a small Catholic school based in South Bend, Indiana, pull off a stunner by beating Army, Notre Dame has stood as one of the main shapers of ...
SOUTH BEND — Knute Rockne’s original gravestone is placed at his new burial plot at Cedar Grove Cemetery at the University of Notre Dame after his grave was exhumed on April 28.. The simple ...
After playing for the Fighting Irish from 1910-1913, Rockne was hired as head coach in 1918. He led Notre Dame to three national championships and a 105-12-5 record through 1930.
The 1931 college football season saw the USC Trojans win the Knute Rockne Memorial Trophy as national champion under the Dickinson System, as well as the No. 1 position from each of the other three contemporary major selectors (Boand, Dunkel, and Houlgate Systems). [1]
The 1922 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1922 college football season, led by fifth-year head coach Knute Rockne. The Irish played a scoreless tie at Army on Armistice Day, [1] and lost the season finale at Nebraska on Thanksgiving for an 8–1–1 record. [2]