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Notre Dame beat Army in the "Win one for the Gipper" game before 85,000 spectators at Yankee Stadium on Nov. 10, 1928, inspired by the memory of late football star George Gipp.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — DNA from the recently exhumed body of college football hero George Gipp shows he was not the father of a child born shortly after his death, quelling longstanding rumors ...
As he lay on his deathbed in December 1920, legendary Notre Dame football player George Gipp allegedly uttered one of the ...
George Gipp throws 70-yard TD pass on his final play Nov. 20, 1920: The legend of George Gipp was cemented on what tragically turned out to be his final play. Gipp stayed on the bench for most of ...
Eight years earlier, in 1920, All-American George Gipp died shortly after the season. With the Irish preparing for a tough Army team, Knute Rockne implored his team with Gipp's deathbed wish.
Editor: The most poignant moment in “Knute Rockne, All American,” (1940), starring Pat O’Brien, is when Rockne was visiting his great football player, George Gipp, on his deathbed.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The body of George Gipp, the Notre Dame football player who inspired the rallying cry "Win one for the Gipper,'' was exhumed recently for DNA testing ...
Ray Robinson’s “Rockne” is a serviceable biography that reveals no secrets. Students of Rockne and Notre Dame football will still turn to Murray Sperber’s impressively researched “Shake ...