(photo: AP Photo/stf ... given that the former actor had played George Gipp in the Notre Dame football film Knute Rockne All-American. The drama heightened when Reagan was shot in March 1981.

On March 31, 1931, Notre Dame college football coach Knute Rockne, 43, was killed in the crash of a TWA plane near Bazaar, Kansas. On that fateful morning, Rockne boarded Transcontinental and ...

San Antonio-born Texas Longhorns legend Tommy Nobis has long been overlooked for a spot in the NFL Hall of Fame despite his ...

Before that, Cahoon had played college football at Gonzaga under coach Gus Dorais, an All-American back at Notre Dame in 1913 when Rockne was his star end. Cahoon was coaching at Monmouth College ...

"Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson at age 15, Aspiring football player, 1987," one X user captioned the image in a post (archived) that reached more than 240,000 views as of this writing. The photo is ...

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When Knute Rockne helped build Notre Dame football into the national brand it is, allowing multiple big-time radio stations to broadcast the game for free were a huge factor in the program's ...

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In 1931, Notre Dame college football coach Knute Rockne, 43, was killed in the crash of a TWA plane near Bazaar, Kansas. In 1993, actor Brandon Lee, 28, was accidentally shot to death during the ...