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	NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH, The Official Athletic Site
		Rockne graduated magna cum laude with a 90.52 (on a scale of 100) grade average.
		Rockne, who was inducted into the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1951 --the first year of inductions --revolutionized the game of football with his wide-ranging ideas and innovations.
		Rockne believed that half of football strategy was passing, while most of his counterparts kept the ball on the ground.
	und.cstv.com /trads/rockne.html (880 words)

	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.
	espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Rockne_Knute.html (1360 words)

	NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH, The Official Athletic Site
		Rockne graduated magna cum laude with a 90.52 (on a scale of 100) grade average.
		Rockne, who was inducted into the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1951 --the first year of inductions --revolutionized the game of football with his wide-ranging ideas and innovations.
		Rockne believed that half of football strategy was passing, while most of his counterparts kept the ball on the ground.
	und.collegesports.com /trads/rockne.html (880 words)

	MSN Encarta - Knute Rockne
		Rockne, Knute Kenneth (1888-1931), American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame, who revolutionized football strategy.
		Rockne's use of the pass to defeat a much bigger, stronger team unskilled in this method of play led to the popularization of this strategy and to an increase in the popularity of football.
		Rockne was one of the most successful coaches in the history of football.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576926/Knute_Rockne.html (225 words)

	Seventy years later, Rockne crash-site tribute keeps memory alive - CBS SportsLine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rockne wasn't found clutching a rosary, as some outlets reported, but he did have one in a pocket.
		Rockne was only 43 when he died, at the height of his powers.
		Rockne was handed the job at age 30 and won more than 88 percent of his games over the next 13 years.
	cbs.sportsline.com /b/page/pressbox/0%2C1328%2C3704994%2C00.html (2008 words)

	Part 11 of 10 (Bonus Issue): Knute Rockne - Mr. Corvallis
		Rockne was literally at the height of his fame during his four-year stint in Corvallis.
		Rockne loved a crowd and he was both teacher and entertainer when he made any kind of public appearance.
		Rockne and Schissler first met in 1923 when Schissler's Lombard College eleven lost a hard-fought game to Notre Dame 14-0, the only loss the future OSU coach would suffer at the small Illinois school of 350 students.
	alumni.oregonstate.edu /eclips/history/footballhistory11.html (549 words)

	Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation Honors Knute Rockne :: Ellis Island Family Heritage Award was presented to ...
		Rockne came from Norway to the United States through Ellis Island in 1893 as a 5-year-old with his mother and sisters.
		Rockne was a receiver for the Notre Dame football team in 1912 and '13, earning third-team All-America honors as a senior.
		Upon graduating, Rockne was offered a position at the University as a graduate assistant in chemistry, which he accepted on the condition that he be allowed to work as an assistant to football coach Jesse Harper.
	und.collegesports.com /genrel/042104aaa.html (537 words)

	Rockne
		Knute Rockne died in a tragic accident 75 years ago on March 31, 1931.
		As visitors enter Rockne, they are transported in time to the tragic spring day when Rockne’s airplane crashed in a Kansas field, killing all eight aboard.
		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.
	www.centerforhistory.org /rockne.html (823 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Knute Rockne
		Rockne's family came to the U. when he was five years old and settled in Chicago.
		Rockne had his worst year in 1928, when it took a 12-6 victory over Army to salvage a 5-4-0 season.
		Rockne's last two teams were undefeated, going 9-0-0 in 1929 and 10-0-0 in 1930.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/rockneknute.shtml (583 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Rockne, twelve miles southwest of Bastrop in southwestern Bastrop County, has its origins in the Meuth community, established by Andrew Meuth in 1846 between the sites of String Prairie and present Rockne.
		Rockne received its present name after Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne's death in 1931, when the schoolchildren of the community voted to rename their town in his honor.
		By 1976, when the Rockne church was renovated, the population of the community had grown to 400; it remained 400 in 1990.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/RR/hlr34.html (400 words)

	Augusta Georgia: football@ugusta: Mike Berardino: Rockne was master of locker-room emotion 9/5/97
		``Rockne's final margin over other coaches came from his superior ability to foresee how much of what kind of stimulation his squad needed when, and to provide it,'' New York Daily News writer Francis Wallace wrote in his 1960 biography of the old Notre Dame football coach.
		Rockne's most famous locker-room spiel - ``the Gipper speech'' - came on Nov. 10, 1928 at Yankee Stadium.
		Rockne coached the Irish from 1918-30, compiling a record of 105-12-5.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/090697/fb_rockne.html (322 words)

	SCIFI.COM Chat Transcript: Rockne S. O'Bannon, January 13, 2000
		Rockne: In every case, it was simply a matter of, "That's the one!" I especially remember being in a rehearsal hall in Sydney, with a number of potential D'Argos and Zhaans...
		Rockne: I think I've mentioned before that I'd have to single out Crichton, since he's my (and all the writers') opportunity to be heroic, say the witty, wacky stuff we'd like to think we'd say if we were in the situations he is....
		Rockne: One of the things I've tried to move the writers toward is to put the quirky references that we say to each other in the writing room into the scripts....
	www.scifi.com /transcripts/2000/farscape_two.html (3249 words)

	Rockne Gipp Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
	lamb.archives.nd.edu /rockne/speech.html (600 words)

	Articles - Knute Rockne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Knute Kenneth Rockne (usually Knute Rockne) (March 4, 1888â€“March 31, 1931) was an American football player and coach of Norwegian origin.
		Rockne was born Knut Rokne in Voss, Norway, and emigrated while still a child to Chicago, Illinois, USA.
		Rockne was buried in Highland Cemetery in South Bend, and the student athletic building on campus is named in his honor, as well as a street in South Bend, and a travel plaza on the Indiana Toll Road.
	www.poncier.com /articles/Knute_Rockne (227 words)

	Knute Rockne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Knute Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 - March 31, 1931) was an American football player and coach.
		As the head coach of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, from 1918-1930,he set the greatest all-time winning percentage of 88.1%.
		Rockne was the subject of the 1940 film Knute Rockne, All American.
	www.therfcc.org /knute-rockne-63697.html (131 words)

	Knute Rockne Linkpage
		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.
		The website is presented by Birger Rokne, a lifelong resident of Voss and a distant relative of the man born Knut Rokne.
	www.mnc.net /norway/Knute.htm (509 words)

	Observer Newspaper - Scene
		Rockne the football player and coach is, of course, the primary subject of the book, and each stage in Rockne's athletic progression is dutifully covered in visual form.
		Rockne's playing days as a star left end for the Irish from 1911 to 1913 are given considerable coverage, as are Rockne's days as an assistant to Notre Dame coach Jesse Harper from 1914 to 1917.
		Steele suggests that Rockne looked at football and sport in a somewhat idealized manner — although he was no naïf — and saw a relation between education of the mind and education of the body.
	www.nd.edu /~observer/10151999/Scene/1.html (812 words)

	AllRefer.com - Knute Kenneth Rockne (Sports, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He excelled at football at Notre Dame and with Gus Dorais scored a sensational upset (1913) of the heavily favored Army team through the use of the forward pass : a legal but then seldom-used tactic.
		Rockne became (1914) a Notre Dame chemistry instructor and served (1918–31) as head football coach.
		Rockne not only made Notre Dame the country's leading football center but also revolutionized football theory.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Rockne-K.html (255 words)

	Knute Rockne
		Knute Kenneth Rockne born March 4, 1888, was a winner as a football player and a coach.
		Rockne came to visit Gipp only hours before he was to pass on.
		After pre-game warmups, Rockne pulled the team together in the locker room and waited until the room was completely silent and began delivering what would be one of the most famous motivational speeches ever given in the history of football.
	www.msu.edu /~buschden/rockne.htm (478 words)

	Knute Rockne
		During his senior season (1913) when he served as captain, Rockne and his roommate, quarterback Gus Dorais, stunned Army with their deadly pass combination and handed the high-ranking Cadets a 35 - 13 setback.
		But Rockne, who also fought semi-professionally in South Bend, wrote for the student newspaper and yearbook, played flute in the school orchestra, took a major role in every student play and reached the finals of the Notre Dame marbles tournament, considered himself primarily a student.
		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.
	www.gonorway.no /go/rockne.html (1045 words)

	Great American History Fact-Finder - -Rockne, Knute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Playing receiver at Notre Dame, Rockne and quarterback Gus Dorais made the forward pass a primary offensive weapon in 1913, marking a turning point in the evolution of the game.
		As coach, Rockne led Notre Dame to five undefeated seasons, compiling a record of 105 victories, 12 defeats, and 5 ties, and a winning percentage of.881, the best record of any coach in college football history.
		Rockne's death at age forty-three in a plane crash was mourned throughout the country.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/gahff/html/ff_156800_rockneknute.htm (172 words)

	Rockne, Knute (1888-1931) Biography \| sjpc_04_package.xml (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		The skill and spirit of Rockne also resides in another enduring aspect of sports mythology that has passed into popular culture, and is arguably the most famous passage in American sports journalism.
		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.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/rockne-knute-1888-1931-sjpc-04 (771 words)

	The Draft Horse Journal: The Days Before Yesterday 75 Years Ago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rockne’s father had died shortly after that undefeated season and Rockne had to seriously consider leaving school to help out the family.As Brondfield says in his book, “Only the dogged insistence of his older sister kept him on the campus.” His friend Nels also encouraged him to stay and he did.
		Rockne didn’t think the stock yards would be fun but his friend had a point.
		Rockne was feeling pretty good by the following September and to make another long season short we will just say that Rockne and Notre Dame got their two undefeated seasons back to back.
	www.drafthorsejournal.com /daysbeforeyesterday/winter00_01/75yearsago/75yearsago.htm (6508 words)

	Snurcher's Guide: Chat: Rockne O'Bannon
		Rockne: The big lesson I personally learned on SQ was: I would never create a series again unless I stayed with it through the first year...
		Rockne: Actually, I'd have to say good ol' John C. As I mentioned before, my edict to the writers from the first day was: put YOURSELF in that room with the 2-foot Drak....
		Rockne: He sprung from the JH Creature Shop maniacs (a design that was conceive 5 years ago, and was so instantly deemed cool, that it never changed)...
	www.snurcher.com /online/chat990624.shtml (2659 words)

	Information about U.S. Proofcard®: 22¢ Knute Rockne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rockne's leadership brought Notre Dame to the heights of college football, and the game itself profited from his genius.
		Rockne thus earned the respect and admiration of a nation of football fans.
		On April 1, 1931, newspapers and radio stations announced the tragic death of Knute Rockne in a plane crash in Kansas, and all America suffered the loss.
	www.unicover.com /EA4PABQX.HTM (437 words)

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		Photos, illustrations, and information on Knute Rockne (1888-1931), legendary coach of the Notre Dame University football team, native of Norway, and victim of a plane crash in Chase County, Kansas on a flight leaving from Kansas City.
		Believed to be last photograph taken of Rockne before the plane crash in Kansas which killed him on March 31, 1931.
		Legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne died in an airplane crash in Kansas in 1931.
	www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/list.cfm?list=sub&SubjectareaID=2852 (414 words)

	Welcome to GoLive CyberStudio 4
		Knute Kenneth Rockne, the sixth passenger, was the coach of the by-then fabled Notre Dame football team, the most famous football coach in the land, and one of the greatest names in all sports history.
		Walsh was a sports entrepreneur who booked speaking engagements for Rockne and a few other leading sports figures and syndicated their articles to newspapers throughout the country.
		When he got to the airport, Rockne found his plane's takeoff was being held up by incoming mail and the 8:30 departure was rescheduled for 9:15.
	www.irishlegends.com /Pages/reflections/reflections5.html (3148 words)

	The Official Knute Rockne Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Knute Rockne : Young Athlete by Guernsey Van Riper; paperback
		Knute Kenneth Rockne, born March 4, 1888, was a winner as a football player and a coach.
		There were no survivors, and Knute Rockne was dead at the age of 43.
	www.cmgww.com /football/rockne/krbio.html (412 words)

	Columbia Knute?
		Behind the headlines and the canonization of Rockne in the press, there was another story, one of the coach's annoyance with his yearly Notre Dame salary (about $10,000) and his constant struggles with school administration over his alleged overemphasis of the gridiron game.
		After several heated days of accusations and indecision, Rockne, caught with his stubby fingers in the Columbia cookie jar, tried to explain that having failed to get his release from his Notre Dame contract, he was not in a position to move to Morningside Heights.
		At the height of his career, Rockne was on his way to California, presumably to discuss a cinematic treatment of his life, when his airplane went down over Bazaar, Kansas, in March 1931.
	www.college.columbia.edu /cct/sep99/18a.html (1259 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Rockne of Notre Dame: The Making of a Football Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Still and all, we see Rockne as he developed from a boy growing up in Chicago to the young man at Notre Dame eventually becoming the coach who, in turn, became larger than life.
		There are occasional glimpses of Rockne off the football field and I, personally, would have liked to have gotten to know more about Rockne the man. However, this is, first and foremost, a story about Knute's lifelong relationship with football.
		Rockne championed and embodied the immigrant struggle for a place in the sun - the "fighting Irish" being a moniker bestowed on a polyglot group of newcomers to the American dream.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195105494/ref=nosim/brachmancom-20?dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE (868 words)

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