One of the greatest football college coaches

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I didnt know a Scandinavian had coached college football

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knute_Rockne

Knute[2] Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was an American football player and is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history.[3] His biography at the College Football Hall of Fame (South Bend, IN) calls him "American football's most-renowned coach." He was a native Norwegian, and was trained as a chemist at Notre Dame. He is credited with popularizing the use of the forward pass.


Nice record he had with Notre Dame:

Total:105–12–5

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Better college football coach = Tom Osborne....maybe a little biased.

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Quotes By Knute Rockne

• "The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game."
• I'd run along the beach, Dorais would throw from all angles. People who didn't know (that) we were two college seniors making painstaking preparations for our final season probably thought we were crazy."
• "Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."
• "Let's win one for the Gipper."
• "No star playing, just football."
• "One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it."
• "Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure."
• "Win or lose, do it fairly."
• "The Army halfback covering me almost yawned in my face, he was that bored."
• "Everybody seemed astonished. There had been no hurdling, no tackling, no plunging, no crushing....just a long distance touchdown by rapid transit."
• "The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work."
• "I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."