a young Ronald Reagan played George Gipp in the 1940s movie “Knute Rockne, All American. Pat O’Brien stared as Rockne in the biographical film. Many referred to Reagan as the Gipper.

Reagan was offered the same opportunity — even more fitting given that the former actor had played George Gipp in the Notre Dame football film Knute Rockne All-American. The drama heightened ...

The unnamed "disease" that killed George Gipp wasn't a disease, it was actually complications from strep throat. Mrs. Knute Rockne had approval over the casting and approved Pat O'Brien's make-up and ...

Several years after Rockne’s death, a young Ronald Reagan played George Gipp in the 1940s movie “Knute Rockne, All American. Pat O’Brien stared as Rockne in the biographical film. Many referred to ...

George Gipp: Rock, someday when the team's up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, ask 'em to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be ...