South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-12-15

Notre Dame Pays
Last Tribute to
Noted Son Today

Glasses will be suspended at Notre
Dame university Wednesday morn
ing TO permit the students Of the
school TO pay a last tribute to their
wonder man. A requiem high mass
in Sacred Heart church az SIS
o'clock viii be followed by a solemn
procession which will escort the
o, dy Of George Gipp on his last
trip from the school he loved.
The entire first string eleven will
accompany the party 10 Calumet. in
Guiding Hartley Anderson and Fred
Larson. who came 20 Notre Dame
through the influence OF Gipp and
who had been high school mates Of
the dead hero. The death OF their
mate is being felt keenly by the en-
tire football squad who knew him
best, and upon the campus, where
he was a man among men. Gipp
was the idol Of faculty as well as
students. and the trying hours OF
his illness were shared by every
man and boy in the school.
Many of the students made the
trip 10 South Bend for a last view
Of the body at the McCann under
taking .Iarlors Tuesday evening.
others remained away, preferring to
remember him as the superman Of
the football field or the genial good
fellow OF the campus. kilograms
are pouring into the office of the
athletic department from the great
universities OF the country, deplor-
ing the death OF the man whom
Walter Camp had at almost the
same hour given the first place in
his all-American backheld.
Flags at Half Mast.
An interesting parallel 10 the death
Of Gipp was the case Of Sarge"
Owens, football tackle OF the :. A.
r G. year. who died from a sudden
attack Of poisoning on May %.
1919. He had been a teammate and
close friend OF Gipp. who often re-
marked upon the peculiar character
of Owens death.
Notre Dame students accepted
fate's grim decision with heavy
hearts already prepared for the
shock. Flags on the Notre Dame
campus and on the St JoseLh coun-
- court house were at half mast
throughout the day. The city was
in gloom for hours after the idol OF
football fandom died in the s.. JOS
eph hospital here at 3:23 o'clock on
Tuesday morning after a lingering
illness
The funeral party. including the
bereaved mother sister and brother
and the delegation OF teammates
viii leave South Bend at 1928
o'clock this morning for Chicago
aud arrive at Calumet at O'Clock
Thursday morning. The Students
activity committee Of the school
has arranged TO present a magnifi-
cent floral Offering Gipp became a
Catholic before his death and a
high mass will be celebrated for him
at S:15 o'clock Thursday morning
in Sacred Heart church, the Michi-
gan club has arranged for several
masses for the repose Of his soul.
ROCknc Pays Tribute.
The Rev. DR.. James A Burns. G.
s. c., president Of the university,
has been a frequent visitor at the
bedside of Gipp and extended his
sympathy 20 the mother. Coach
Knute Rockne. who possibly knew
, Gipp better than any other man at
the school. made the following
statement Tuesday morning:
George Gipp was the greatest
halfback who has ever represented
1 Notre Dame; and his unquesloned
ability was surpassed by a grit which
Afeatured all his work on the grid
I iron. and was the marvel Of his at
tending physicians. The outstand-
( ing feature OF his character was q
| deep affection for his mother; and
, in his death / feel a keen personal
( loss"
Frank Coughlin. leader Of the
7 football team which Gipp shot 20
fame. and who is arranging the stu
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