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The Gipper

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by Jack Cavanaugh


  Blanchard, Felix “Doc,”

  blitz

  blocking

  boilermaker record

  Boston Red Sox

  Brandy, Joe

  Brennan, Terry

  Breslin, Jimmy

  Brill, Marty

  Broshus, Chuck

  Buick plant league

  Burns, Father James

  Bush, George H.W.

  Butler, Paul

  Byrne, Joseph

  C

  Cagle, Chris “Red,”

  Calnon, Mike

  Calumet, Michigan

  Calumet and Hecla Mining Company

  Calumet High School

  Calumet Light Guard Armory

  Calumet semi-pro teams

  Calumet-Laurium Aristocrats

  Camp, Walter

  Cannon, Jack

  Canton Bulldogs

  Carideo, Frank

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Cartier Field

  Castner, Paul

  Catholicism

  Cavanaugh, John W.

  CBS Radio Network

  cheerleaders

  Chevigny, Jack

  Chicago Tribune

  Chicago White Sox

  Cincinnati Reds

  Clausen, Jimmy

  Claypool Hotel

  coaches. See specific names

  Cochems, Eddie

  Cohan, George M.

  Collard, Joe

  College All Star game

  College Football Hall of Fame

  College Football Player of the Year

  Collier’s

  Collins, Fred

  Collins, Joe

  Conley, Tom

  Cooley, Cecil

  Coughlin, Dan

  Coughlin, Frank

  Crowley, Charlie

  Crowley, Jim

  Cullum Field

  Cuyler, Kiki

  D

  Daily Mining Gazette

  Daley, Arthur

  Daly, Charles

  Danzig, Allison

  Davis, Glenn

  Dayton, Harry

  death, football-related

  Degree, Cy

  DeGree, Ed

  Dempsey, Jack

  DiMaggio, Joe

  Dome, The

  Donaldson, Joe

  Donoghue, Dick

  Dorais, Gus

  draft boards

  drinking age

  Driscoll, Paddy

  dropkicks

  E

  Ebbets Field

  Eckersall, Walter

  Eichenlaub, Ray

  Eisenhower, Dwight

  Elder, Jack

  elementary students. See minims

  Elks club

  end zone

  end-over-end pass

  Enright, Rex

  Erkkila, Bob

  Evers, Johnny

  F

  field goals

  field size

  “Fighting Irish” nickname

  financial aid

  Finegan, Sam

  Fisher, Ray

  Fitzgerald, Freeman

  Fitzpatrick, George

  Flint Journal

  flu pandemic

  formations

  forward pass

  Four Horsemen

  Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The

  French, Walter

  Friedman, Benny

  G

  game time

  games

  1909 season

  Michigan

  1913 season

  Army

  1916 season

  Army

  1917 season

  Army

  Michigan Agricultural College

  Morningside College of Iowa

  South Dakota

  Washington & Jefferson

  1918 season

  cancellation of

  Case Tech

  flu pandemic and

  Great Lakes Naval Training Station

  Great lakes Naval Training Station

  Michigan Agricultural College

  Wabash

  1919 season

  Army

  Kalamazoo

  Michigan Agricultural

  1920 season

  Army

  Indiana University

  Kalamazoo

  Michigan Agricultural College

  Nebraska

  Valparaiso

  Western Michigan University

  1921 season

  Army

  Haskell Institute

  Iowa

  Rutgers

  1922 season

  Georgia Tech

  Indiana

  1923 season

  Army

  1926 season

  Carnegie Tech

  1928 season

  Army

  1929 season

  Army

  Northwestern

  Tartans

  1930 season

  Navy

  Southern California

  1946 season

  Army

  General Motors league

  George, Alexander

  George Gipp Recreation Area

  GI Bill

  Gipp, Alexander

  Gipp, Dorothy

  Gipp, George

  absences of

  academics

  baseball

  basketball

  blood transfusion and

  bootlegging

  Catholicism

  childhood

  competitive nature of

  craps

  dancing and

  dice game

  donations for South Bend trip

  draft boards

  drinking

  enrollment in Notre Dame

  expulsion of

  funeral of

  gambling

  grave of

  health of

  hometown of

  injuries

  jobs

  lack of sleep

  last rights

  letters

  memorials

  pneumonia

  poker

  pool

  rebelliousness of

  reinstatement of

  relationships

  scholarships

  scouts for

  smoking

  sore throats

  statistics

  streptococcus infection

  track

  varsity letter

  Gipp, Harrison

  Gipp, Isabella

  Gipp, Karl

  Gipp, Matthew

  Giroux, Peter

  Giroux, Wilfred “Jazzy,”

  Goertz, Edith

  gold football charms

  Golden Age of Sportswriting

  Grange, Red

  Grant, Chet

  Gray, Wilbur “Dolly,”

  Great Depression

  Greene, Frank

  Gridgraph

  Guglielmi, Ralph

  H

  Haggerty, Father Patrick

  Halas, George

  Halas, Walter

  Hammond, Tom

  Hanratty, Terry

  Harlem Globetrotters

  Harper, Jesse

  Haxall, Jim

  Hayes, Dave

  Healey, Ed

  Heavens, Jerome

  Heisler, John

  helmets

  Helms Athletic Foundation

  Herald Tribune

  Hesburgh, Father Theodore

  Hesburgh Library

  Hewitt, Norm

  Higgs-Coulthard, Charles

  Holtz, Lou

  Hoover, Herbert

  Hope, Arthur

  Hornung, Paul

  Hotel Claypool

  Hotel Oliver

  Houghton Traction Company

  housing problem

  Huarte, John

  huddles

  Hull, George

  Hullie and Mike’s

  Husing, Ted

  Hutchinson, Dick

  I

  Indiana
State Medical Association

  Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States

  interhall football

  International News Service

  International Sports and Game Research Collection

  Irving, Father Thomas

  Ivy League

  J

  Jewish faith

  jobs

  Johnsos, Luke

  Jolson, Al

  Jones, Tad

  K

  Kalamazoo College

  Kaplan, Clarence

  Kasper, Cy

  Keady, Maurice

  Keats, John

  Kelley, Robert

  Kennedy, J. Walter

  Kennedy, John B.

  Kiley, Roger

  Kirk, Bernie

  Kizer, Noble

  Knute Rockne: All American

  Kosty, Ed

  Ku Klux Klan

  Kuharich, Joe

  L

  Lake View Cemetery

  Lambeau, Earl “Curley,”

  Lamonica, Daryle

  Lardner, Ring

  Larkin, Art

  Larson, Fred “Ojay,”

  Laurium, Michigan

  Laurium draft boards

  Law, John

  Layden, Elmer

  leadership qualities

  League of Nations

  A League of Their Own

  Leahy, Frank

  Lieb, Tom

  Lincoln Star

  line of scrimmage

  locker rooms

  Lombardi, Vince

  Longman, Shorty

  Loyola Academy football team

  Lujack, Johnny

  M

  MacArthur, Douglas

  Madigan, Edward “Slip,”

  Madigan, Slip

  Major League All-Star game

  Malone, Grover

  Mann, Goldie

  Marion County Courthouse

  Marks, Jack

  Martin, Marie. See Anderson, Marie Martin

  McGann, Lewis

  McGann Funeral Home

  McGeehan, W.O.

  McKenna, Jerry

  McMeel, James

  McNamee, Graham

  Mehre, Harry

  Mendelson, Joseph

  Mendelson Center for Sport, Character, and Culture at Notre Dame

  Merriwell, Frank

  Metzger, Bert

  Michigan Agricultural College

  Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

  military service

  Miller, Don

  Miller, Edgar “Rip,”

  Miller, Fred

  Miller, Walter

  Milner, Wayne

  minims

  mining

  minor leagues

  Mohardt, Johnny

  Mohn, Bill

  Montana, Joe

  Moore, Elwin “Dope,”

  Morrisey, Andrew

  Mullins, Lawrence “Moon,”

  Murrill, Hugh

  N

  Nadolney, Romanus “Peaches,”

  Nashville Tennessean

  National Basketball Association

  National Collegiate Athletic Association

  National Football League

  Nave, Bill

  Nebraska game

  New York Daily News

  New York Giants

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Morning Telegram

  New York Times

  New York University

  Niemiec, Butch

  Notre Dame. See also Cartier Field; games; Notre Dame Stadium

  “Fighting Irish” nickname

  prestige of

  recognition of

  Notre Dame All Stars

  Notre Dame Scholastic

  “Notre Dame shift,”

  Notre Dame Stadium

  “Notre Dame Victory March,”

  O

  O’Brien, Johnny

  O’Brien, Pat

  O’Connor, Paul “Bucky,”

  O’Donnell, Charles

  officials. See referees

  O’Hara, John

  Oliphant, Elmer

  Olney, Thomas

  Olsen, Walter

  Ott, John

  out of bounds

  Owen, Steve

  P

  Palmer, Charles

  Parisien, Art

  Parseghian, Ara

  pass plays

  Patten, Gilbert

  Penfield, Graham

  Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission

  pep talks

  Phair, Victoria Adams

  Phelan, Jim

  play-action passes

  Pliska, Joe

  poems

  Polo Grounds

  Post, Wiley

  prestige of Notre Dame

  Prichard, Vernon

  prohibition

  Protestantism

  punt formation

  R

  rallies

  Reagan, Ronald

  recognition of Notre Dame

  recruiting players

  referees

  restrictions against playing

  Rice, Grantland

  Risley, Elliot

  “Roaring Twenties,”

  Roche, A.C.

  Rockford Amateur Athletic Club

  Rockford Register Gazette

  Rockne, Billy

  Rockne, Bonnie

  Rockne, Jackie

  Rockne, Knute

  academics and

  behavior

  boxing

  catching a pass

  Catholicism and

  Cedar Point, Ohio

  coaching style of

  college

  death of

  depression

  faked injury

  funeral of

  gambling

  George Gipp’s death and

  hiring of

  huddles and

  leadership of

  letters

  memorial for

  motivational speaking

  offers for head coach

  pep talks

  phlebitis

  pole-vaulting

  publicity photos of

  recruiting

  resignation of

  speaking

  stammering

  statistics

  statues of

  Studebaker

  track

  unbeaten seasons

  winning streak of

  Rockne, Knute Jr.

  Rockne, Mary Jean

  Rockne, Texas

  Rockne Hall

  Rockne Memorial building

  Roehm Construction Company

  Rogers, Will

  role models

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  rules

  Runyon, Damon

  Ruth, Babe

  Rydzewski, Frank

  S

  Sacred Heart Church

  Sacred Heart School

  safeguarding equipment

  Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center

  Salmon, Louis “Red,”

  Saunders, Russell

  Savini, Joe

  Savoldi, Joe

  scholarships

  Scholastic

  Schumacher, Harry

  Schwartz, Marchmont “Marchy,”

  scouts

  scrimmages

  semi-pro teams

  Seven Mules

  Shake Down the Thunder

  Shakespeare, Bill

  Shaughnessy, Clark

  Shaw, Lawrence “Buck,”

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe

  “shock troops,”

  Singer Sewing Machine Co.

  single-wing formations

  Skiles, Bonnie Gwendoline. See Rockne, Bonnie

  Slackford, Fritz

  Slater, Duke

  Smith, Al

  Smith, Gunboat

  Smith, Maurice “Clipper,”

  soft hands

  Sorin Hall

  South Bend News-Times

  Sou
th Bend Tribune

  Spanish Flu

  speakeasies

  Sperber, Murray

  spiral, throwing

  Spirit of Notre Dame

  SS George Gipp

  SS Knute Rockne

  St. Joseph Hospital

  St. Mary’s College

  Stagg, Amos Alonzo

  Standish, Burt L. See Patten, Gilbert

  Steffen, Walter

  Stine, Raleigh

  Stine, Rollo

  Storck, Donald

  Strickler, George

  Studebaker Corporation

  Student Army Training Corps (SATC)

  Stuhldreher, Harry

  Stuhldreher, Mary

  substitutes

  “subway alumnis,”

  Sutherland, Jock

  Swarbrick, Jack

  Swetish, Joe

  “synthetic alumni,”

  T

  tackling

  T-formations

  Theismann, Joe

  Thomas, Frank

  Thorp, Tom

  Thorpe, Jim

  throwing the ball

  Time magazine

  time-outs

  touchbacks

  touchdowns

  Trafton, George

  Trippeer, Iris

  Trolley League

  tuition

  U

  United States Military Academy

  United States Olympic Committee

  Universal Studios

  university band

  V

  Valentino, Rudolph

  Veeck, Bill

  Vermande, John

  Voelkers, John

  Volstead Act

  voting rights

  W

  Wabash College

  Walker, Jimmy

  Wallace, Francis “Frank,”

  Wallace, Frank

  Walsh, Adam

  Walsh, Christy

  Walsh, Matthew

  war veterans

  Ward, Arch

  Ward, Leo

  Warner, Glenn “Pop,”

  Way, A.C.

  Western Conference

  Western State Normal

  Western Union

  Wilcox, Perce

  Willard, Jess

  Wilson, “Lighthorse Harry,”

  Wilson, Woodrow

  “win one for the Gipper” slogan

  Women’s Christian Temperance Union

  World War I

  World War II

  Wulf, Horace

  Wynne, Chet

  Y

  Yankee Stadium

  Yarr, Tommy

  YMCA

  Yost, Fielding

  Young, Eugene “Scrap Iron,”

  Z

  Ziegfeld, Florenz

  Ziegfeld Follies

  Zuppke, Bob

  The 1913 Notre Dame team, with Captain Knute Rockne holding the football.

 

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