On this day 125 years ago — March 4, 1988 — a carriage-maker in the village of Voss, Norway by the name of Lars Rokne and his wife, Mary Gjermo Rokne, welcomed into the world their second child and first son, whom they would name Knute Kenneth Rokne. So started the remarkable journey of Knute Read Full Post
Coming this September, from Great Day Press:
“Coach For A Nation: The Life and Times of Knute Rockne”
March 4, 2013 by
He transformed the game of football forever and inspired a nation along the way. Knute Rockne’s journey from immigrant child to Notre Dame coaching legend to revered national figure illustrates to us today the endless possibilities of the human spirit. This September, Great Day Press presents the authoritative biography Coach For A Nation: The Life Read Full Post
Rockne Envisioned A Different Game
March 4, 2013 by
It would be accurate to call Knute Rockne a “man on the move.” After his playing days at Notre Dame (1910-13), he served as assistant coach to Jesse Harper in 1914-17, and kept his toe in the waters of competition beyond the college gridiron. Several times a week, after Notre Dame practice, he would zip Read Full Post
Rally, Sons of Notre Dame!
January 7, 2013 by
Brian Kelly said it best in the cramped locker room at the Los Angeles Coliseum late in the evening of November 24. “We won this game the way we’ve won every game this season,” he shouted to the victorious Irish crowded around him. “With our will, our determination, our want and our desire.” Football analysts Read Full Post
The ND-Bama Link
January 5, 2013 by
In the late 1920s, a young man in the southern Arkansas town of Fordyce was starting to make quite a name for himself. As a 13-year-old, he wrestled a captive bear in a promotion for a local movie theater, and gained a lifelong nickname. He made the high school’s varsity football team as an eighth-grader, Read Full Post
To The Fighting Irish…
November 21, 2012 by
I understand you fellows have a big game this Saturday in Los Angeles. Please indulge me, to tell you a little about some of the big games of my day, and how Notre Dame was able to come out on top. You may have heard that in 1913 – my final year as a player Read Full Post
88 Years Ago Today, The ‘Horsemen’ Dominated
October 18, 2012 by
At the Polo Grounds in New York City 88 years ago today, a Notre Dame backfield of four seniors who had played together — and defeated all but one opponent — since their sophomore year, went up against another great Army team. It was the sports event of the year on the East Coast, with Read Full Post
History Renewed at Soldier Field
October 3, 2012 by
When Notre Dame renews its storied rivalry with the Miami Hurricanes Saturday night in Chicago’s Soldier Field, it will happen within the hallowed confines of a site that has seen its own iconic place in Notre Dame football history. It will be only the 12th Notre Dame game to take place at the landmark lakefront Read Full Post
Stagg Had A Prominent Role In The Rise of ND Football
November 15, 2011 by
“The game which I have taught….was brought to Notre Dame by Jesse Harper, one of Alonzo Stagg’s best quarterbacks at Chicago. Stagg brought his game from Yale. Ergo…Notre Dame football goes back to Stagg and to Yale.” –Knute Rockne By Jim Lefebvre, Editor, Forever Irish (www.NDFootballHistory.com) To nobody’s surprise, the Big 10 announced Monday that Read Full Post
Fans of Rockne, History Make Pilgrimage To Kansas Field 80 Years After Crash
April 4, 2011 by
Fans of Rockne, History Make Pilgrimage
To Kansas Field 80 Years After Crashrockne memorial
Eight decades after the plane crash that claimed the lives of legendary Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne and seven others, about 200 people gathered at the crash site in the Flint Hills of Kansas to commemorate their lives. It was the first such major commemoration since the passing of James Easter Heathman, who as a 12-year-old farm boy came upon the site minutes after the March 31, 1931 crash. Heathman, who then spent a lifetime overseeing the site, was remembered and honored by those in attendance. READ FULL STORY HERE
