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  Videodetective.com - KNUTE ROCKNE, ALL AMERICAN TRAILER PAGE
As an adult, Rockne works his way through Indiana's Notre Dame university, under the watchful and benevolent eye of Father Callahan (Donald Crisp) A brilliant student, Rockne is urged by Father Nieuwland (Albert Basserman) to become a chemist, or at the very least remain a chemistry teacher.
Among the players nurtured by Rockne are the immortal Four Horsemen-Miller (William Marshall), Stuhlreder (Harry Lukats), Laydon (Kane Richmond) and Crowley (William Byrne), and of course the tragic George Gipp, superbly enacted by Ronald Reagan.
The screenplay of Knute Rockne-All American tends to be all highlights and little story, with several of the more dramatic passages telegraphed well in advance (just before her husband's death, Bonnie Rockne comments forebodingly It's gotten cold all of a sudden).
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 Knute Rockne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Knute (pronounced "kah-noot") ("noot" is the anglicized nickname) Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888–March 31, 1931) was an American football player and is regarded by many as the most famous college football coach in history.
The Rockne crash dominated the news for a while and was thus a tragic catalyst in the progress of civil aviation.
Rockne • Anderson • Layden • Leahy • McKeever • Brennan • Devore • Kuharich • Parseghian • Devine • Faust • Holtz • Davie • O'Leary • Willingham • Weis
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 Knute Rockne
Rockne graduated magna cum laude with a 90.52 (on a scale of 100) grade average.
Rockne believed that half of football strategy was passing, while most of his counterparts kept the ball on the ground.
Rockne was principle designer of Notre Dame Stadium; he opened a stock brokerage firm in South Bend during his last season; he was a dedicated family man to his wife Bonnie and their four children and for years raised much of the family´s food in his garden.
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 ESPN Classic - Knute Rockne was Notre Dame's master motivator
Rockne fended off accusations that his program was growing too professional, that he was illegally paying players, that the growing schedule was requiring too much travel.
Rockne was born on March 4, 1888 in Voss, Norway.
Rockne graduated with honors in 1914, receiving a bachelor's degree in chemistry and pharmacology.
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 Knute Rockne Linkpage
One is reminded of Sir Winston Churchill balking at a statue of him with one foot on the American Continent and one on the European Continent.
Rockne was a 100% American and a 100% Norwegian.
Most of the information relates directly to Rockne — such as his intruction to football of the "shift" and the "forward pass" and his connection with the Studebaker company.
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 Rockne: Crossing the Last Chalk Line Artifacts
Rockne’s last words to his wife, Bonnie, “Leaving right now,” are shown on this original telegram sent by Rockne at 9:56 a.m., just before he boarded the plane.
Knute Rockne who was a passenger on our westbound plane...” This original telegram carried the news that would shock the country.
Rockne led his teams to three national championships and a cumulative record of 105-12-5, an.881 winning percentage that is the highest in college football history.
www.centerforhistory.org /Rockne_artifacts.html   (525 words)

  
 Rockne, Knute (1888-1931) Biography | sjpc_04_package.xml
In fact, Rockne probably did not invent these tactics (and never claimed that he had), but his teams were the first to integrate these new moves into their regular game plan.
Rockne's team was undefeated that season, one of five such triumphant seasons that he enjoyed during his 13 years as Notre Dame's head coach.
Knute Rockne was killed in a plane crash on March 31, 1931.
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 Rockne
Knute Rockne died in a tragic accident 75 years ago on March 31, 1931.
Rockne’s sweater and whistle, on loan from the University of Notre Dame Archives, serve as a testament to his coaching record of 105 wins, 12 losses and 5 ties, which remains the benchmark of football.
Rockne: Crossing the Last Chalk Line not only chronicles this extraordinary life, but also serves to inspire and electrify visitors as they gain new perspectives of the famous coach, just as 15-year-old Bernard J. Miller was motivated in late 1931.
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 Rockne Gipp Speech   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Rockne was trying to salvage something from his worst season as a coach at Notre Dame.
The phrase "Win one for the Gipper" was infused into the lexicon of American society and later became a rallying cry for the political campaigns of the actor who played Gipp in the movie, Ronald Reagan.
In the midst of this tense silence, Rockne quietly says "Alright," to the men beside him, and his chair is wheeled slowly out of the dressing room.
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 Movie Info for Knute Rockne, All American on MSN Movies
Knute Rockne-All American was Pat O'Brien's finest hour: thanks to intensive rehearsals and numerous makeup applications, he so closely resembled the title character that, in the words of Rockne's widow, "I almost expected him to make love with me".
Among the players nurtured by Rockne are the immortal Four Horsemen-Miller (William Marshall), Stuhlreder (Harry Lukats), Laydon (Kane Richmond) and Crowley (William Byrne), and of course the tragic George Gipp, superbly enacted by Ronald Reagan.
The screenplay of Knute Rockne-All American tends to be all highlights and little story, with several of the more dramatic passages telegraphed well in advance (just before her husband's death, Bonnie Rockne comments forebodingly "It's gotten cold all of a sudden").
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 Scanlines: Video and Game Reviews
Like American cornball, for instance: It is in Knute Rockne that we find a smoothly pomaded Ronald Reagan as the tragic George Gipp, uttering his famous deathbed "win just one for the Gipper" line.
Or American virtue: Knute Rockne is a testament to team spirit, moral fortitude, and the salubrious effects of nifty broken-field running.
As for Knute's take on football as character development, that notion is dismissed quite plainly as "the usual bullshit": Far from a Rocknean picture of clean sportsmanship and right living, North Dallas Forty is a raunchy, raucous, locker-room keg party of a film.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue07/screens.scanlines.html   (800 words)

  
 American Chronicle: The Grave of Knute Rockne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The legend of Knute Rockne has grown even bigger since his death over 75 years ago, but standing in the presence of his final resting place made me realize that it is not the size of the monument that makes a man great, it’s what he does in life that matters.
Besides Rockne and the Four Horsemen, another equally legendary figure to come out of Notre Dame was George Gipp, a.k.a., “The Gipper.” Gipp died of pneumonia on December 14, 1920 at the age of 25 following his senior football season.
American Chronicle is a trademark of Ultio LLC.
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 Knute Rockne All American (1940)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Knute Rockne: Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years.
"Knute Rockne All American", the biopic about the famous Notre Dame beloved coach Knute Rockne, is an excellent sports film to watch.
The film presents Rockne from his humble origins in Chicago to his studies in famed Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana.
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 Our Starting Lineup: The Gipper Lives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Pat O’Brien plays the Notre Dame legendary coach Knute Rockne in the fl-and-white “Knute Rockne All American” made in 1940.
The film memorializes that moment and the time years later when Rockne uses the Gipper speech to fire up a squad that was losing to Army at halftime during what turned out to be Rockne’s final game as coach after 13 seasons and five national championships.
“Knute Rockne All American” may be an overlooked underdog of fall sports movies today, but the film’s ability in 1940 to tell the important story of Rockne, Notre Dame and Gipp with a smattering of real football scenes makes it an original sports classic film.
www.kansan.com /blogs/our_starting_lineup/2006/nov/17/george   (763 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Knute Rockne All American: DVD: Pat O'Brien,Gale Page,Ronald Reagan,Donald Crisp,Albert Bassermann,Owen ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Knute was known as one of the most innovative and charismatic coaches of his era.
The result is a long series of episodes from Rockne's life that have varying degrees of appeal, such as when he picks up the idea for his backfield shift from watching chorus girls dance and experiments with the idea using his wife and their dinner guests.
Rockne's plane crash was due to stressed plywood and resulted in an overhaul of standards for new transport aircraft and a competition that eventually resulted in the all-metal Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-2.
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 February 2002
First, Knute Rockne as a boy came to America with his parents from Norway.
Free to express their genius, individual Americans, men and women, in 3 1/2 seconds, would perform such miracles of invention, construction, and production as the world had never seen.
My hope today is that in the years to come -- and come it shall -- when it's your time to explain to another generation the meaning of the past and thereby hold out to them their promise of the future, that you'll recall the truths and traditions of which we've spoken.
www.irishlegends.com /Pages/postcard/postcard_feb02.htm   (2987 words)

  
 Knute Rockne: All American (1940)
Knute Rockne: All American (1940) is the inspirational film biography of the famous and prominent Notre Dame football coach, Knute 'Rock' Rockne (Pat O'Brien).
As a tribute to some of Rockne's colleagues, four of his contemporaries (including grid coaches and friends) appear briefly in one sequence: Howard Jones, Glenn 'Pop' Warner, Alonzo Stagg, and William 'Bill' Spaulding.
The film is best known for its famous line of dialogue, spoken by Rockne's most famous player, George Gipp (Ronald Reagan), a real-life football star who died young of pneumonia and provided an inspiring anecdote to his coach.
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 The Official Site of Knute Rockne: Home
Let Knute Rockne adorn your holiday tree this year with the 2006 Carlton Cards/American Greetings “Icons of an Era” Heirloom Ornament.
Born on March 4, 1888 in Voss, Norway, Knute Kenneth Rockne is highly regarded as college football's greatest head coach.
CMG Worldwide is the exclusive business representative for Knute Rockne.
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 Title: " Knute Rockne All American " - Topics: Sports/Football; U.S./1913 - 1929
Age:8+; Not Rated; Drama; 1940; 96 minutes; B and W. This is a romanticized Hollywood biography of Knute Rockne, possibly the most creative football coach of all time.
Knute Rockne's Notre Dame football teams were the first in the nation to use the forward pass as a major offensive weapon.
The forward pass had been legal in football since 1903 but, before Knute Rockne, it had rarely been used by important college teams.
www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/knute-rockne-all-american.html   (448 words)

  
 Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
One of the great native American athletes of all time, Louis "Rabbit" Weller was a four-sport star at Haskell Institute in Lawrence.
In 1930, he was selected to the Knute Rockne All-American team and the United Press second team.
Charter inductee of the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame.
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 Herbs Archive 2.4
Pat O'Brien as Rockne and Ronald Reagan as Gipp in the
Premiere of "Knute Rockne-All American" on October 4, as the climax of the events.
As for the "Rockne Returns" re-enactment of the world premiere, anybody who bought a ticket could attend, and it was the kind of affair a Mike Bynum would want to be in on.
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 TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Although he was considered the greatest football coach of all time and the man who revolutionized the sport (by introducing the passing game), most moviegoers today are probably not that familiar with the name Knute Rockne.
Yet the film biography, Knute Rockne All American (1940), has achieved a certain immortality because of a line spoken by a player who is on screen for only a fraction of the entire film.
In 1997, Knute Rockne All American was chosen by the National Film Preservation Board to be one of the movies preserved in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
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In the first decades of the 20th century, few Irish Americans had an opportunity to go to college and were rarely
That school was Notre Dame and their football teams would be known as the Fighting Irish.
We will explore the role of Notre Dame on America through the movie, "Knute Rockne All American" which would feature famous Irish Americans Pat O'Brien and Ronald Reagan.
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 Amazon.com: Ronald Reagan - The Signature Collection (Knute Rockne All American / Kings Row / The Hasty Heart / Storm ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The movie star who would be president is remembered with his own DVD five-pack, all culled from Warner Bros. titles made between 1940 and 1952.
Knute Rockne All American includes an Oscar® winning Technicolor historical short Teddy, the Rough Rider, a classic cartoon Porky's Baseball Broadcast, an audio-only 1940 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast with Pat O'Brien and Ronald Reagan, and a theatrical trailer.
Reagan actually 'tested' for the role of George Gipp (Dennis Morgan was his major competition), and his natural athletic ability and likable cockiness won him the role.
www.amazon.com /Ronald-Reagan-Signature-Collection-American/dp/B000FTCLSK   (2803 words)

  
 MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Knute Rockne All American
Pat O'Brien's career role may have been his portrayal of the legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne in this pleasantly schmaltzy and quite popular sentimental favorite from Warner Brothers.
The film is just as famous for the role Ronald Reagan played as the gifted, heroic George Gipp, the school's first All-American who died at the end of his last year.
The famous dying words 'Win one for the Gipper' is the emotional linchpin of the film, one may actually find himself waiting for the scene.
www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=2711   (216 words)

  
 Knute Rockne — Infoplease.com
Knute Kenneth Rockne - Rockne, Knute Kenneth, 1888–1931, American football coach, b.
Rockne, Knute Kenneth - Rockne, Knute Kenneth football Birthplace: Voss, Norway Born: 1888 Died: 1931 Information...
Knute Rockne, you'd make a good creative director!
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 Knute Rockne All American (1940) - Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com
Knute Rockne All American (1940) - Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com
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