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Article: Rockne - a legend turns 100 // Fabled coach put Irish on football map
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 6, 1988
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The evidence is imposing and irrefutable - a record of 105 wins,
12 defeats and 5 ties. Never in the history of college or
professional football has there been such an accomplishment. It
belongs to Knute Kenneth Rockne, who was born 100 years ago last
Friday.
A commemorative stamp is being issued to mark the occasion of
the birth of the winningest coach and one of the most captivating
personalities the sport has ever known. President Reagan, who played
George Gipp in the film "Knute Rockne: All-American," will be in
South Bend, Ind., when the stamp is introduced Wednesday.
Rockne was a native-born Norwegian who grew up in Chicago and
had a lasting impact on an American game, first as ...
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