Knute Rockne
date: label: date made
content: before
label: date made
content: before 1932
notes: label: Description
content: Knute Rockne (1888-1931) was the head coach of the University of Notre Dame football team from 1918-1930, where he compiled an impressive 102-12-5 record and three national titles. The Norwegian immigrant had previously played end for the Indiana-based university (1910-1913) before embarking on a brief professional career, rejoining the “Fighting Irish” as an assistant coach in 1914.
label: Description
content: After becoming head coach, Rockne employed the forward-pass to an unprecedented degree and stocked his team with incredible athletes, (including 1924’s famed “Four Horsemen,”) bringing national interest to Notre Dame at a time when spectator sports where gaining in popularity and receiving frenzied media attention.
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content: Remembered as one of the college sport’s most influential and successful coaches, Rockne died in a plane crash in 1931. Pat O’Brien portrayed the Notre Dame legend in <i>Knute Rockne All-American </i>, a 1940 film best known for featuring future President Ronald Reagan as Fighting Irish half-back George Gipp.
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Football
label: level of sport
content: College
label: web subject
content: Sports
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0568.185
label: accession number
content: 1982.0568
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0568.185
objectType: label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Name
content: card, football
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 8.89 cm