Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-03
WILL ATTEND
NOTRE DAME RITES
2
Norwegian King Will Have
Representative Present
at Services.
BY PAUL NICHOLSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Knute Rockne, that rowing,
restless spirit, will find his
- final resting place tomorrow
afternoon in the consecrated sell
of Highland Cemetery, just 2I2
miles from the campus of old
Notre Dame.
surrounded by thousands of his most
intimate friends and personal repre-
sentatives of King Haakon OF Norway,
the land of the Vikings from which
+ he came, all that is mortal OF the
Crock of Notre Dame" Will be taken
+ to the church Of Sacred Heart at 5
pm. for impressive, yet simple funeral
. ceremonies and then lowered forever
into his grave.
Today and until the cortege takes
him for his last earthly journey, his
body will lie in state at his picturesqur,
but transformations home in Sunny
mede, watched over by firm but tear
full guard of honor composed OF the
boys and men he trained to play,
laugh and live so well.
But the last hopes of the multitude
of mourners, who passed his bier, were
denied. The casket was sealed because
of the condition of his body, which
was mangled in that tragic airplane
crash In Kansas.
The pornp and ceremony, which were
10 closely associated with his glorious
achievements on the foot ball field
will be missing tomorrow afternoon
when Knute RockneS body is delivered
back to earth Most of his friends,
thousands of them, will crowd into the
old Gothic church on the campus or
stand In reverence, distances from the
services.
Students at Mass.
Solemn high requiem mass will be
held for the departed leader at the
same church at 8 o'clock next Thurs
day morning in the presence OF
students, who by that time will have
returned from their Easter vacations.
Because of the wish for simplicity and
brevity, only 400 of Rockne's closest
friends will be admitted to the services
at the church and grave. Today the
dificult task Of asserting the most init
mate was undertaken so as to give them
cards of admittance. The others, thou
sands of them from all sections Of the
Nation, will be asked to remain block
or so from the church and grave.
Such a simplicity and brevity were
the wishes of Mrs. Rockne, his grief
stricken but brave widow. and these
most intimate to the Viking Of play and
good craftsmanship.
At pm. Saturday the body will be
removed from the home to the vine
covered church on the campus OF Notre
Dame a few short blocks away. There
the funeral services will be held, with
Father Michael Mulcaire, vice president
of the university, saying the br1ef
services.
The deacon will be Father Thomas
Steiner. member Of the university Ath-
letic Board of Control, and the sub
deacon. Father Raymond Murch, pre-
feet of discipline for the university.
The funeral sermon will be delivered by |
Father Charles L. O'Donnell, president |
Of the university.
Gridmen PaIlbearers.
The names of the pallbearers we're
not to be announced until later. A
committee worked until the early hours
of morning today attempting to decide |
who they would be and If there would |
be any honorary pallbearers. 1t was
fairly certain, however. that the ones
who would carry the body to the crypt |
would be those same boys" who played
on his great foot ball teams.
King Haakon assured his representa- |
ton at the funeral last night when he |
cabled the Norwegian council at Chi |
cago to attend the services tomorrow, !
accompanied by group OF six promi- |
nent Chicago Norwegians. He conveyed
his deep regret to Mrs. Rockne and
Notre Dame and advised he would |
knight the departed Notre Dame foot |
ball coach within the next six months. |
Mrs Rockne, although fatigued by
her long train ride from Florida, bore |
up exceedingly well on her arrival in
South Bend at 615 last night and to-
day she was surrounded by her mother, |
Mrs. Hulda H. Jones Of Kenton, Ohio, |
and Rocknes 72-year-o mother, Mrs.
Lewis Rockne of Chicago, and others.
Her four children, William, IA; Knute, |
r., IL; Jean, 10, and Jackie, 5, still |
didn't seem to realize with the other
Thousands of Rocknes friends that their |
father had departed from life.
South Bend was filled with mourners
today, and they included almost every |
one Of Importance in Americas college |
athletic world. A call was sent out
today to all classmates of Rockne's, the |
1914 graduation class of Notre Dame, |
70 attend the funeral.