Rockne

[rok-nee]

noun

1. Knute (Kenneth) 1888–1931, U.S. football coach, born in Norway.

Example Sentences

When he retired after the 1953 season, Leahy had the second-best record in the history of college football, trailing only Knute Rockne, his forebear at Notre Dame.

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On the field he caught the eye of Rockne, who, in Mr. Maisel’s account, “saw something special in Leahy the young man as much as in Leahy the player.”

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Rockne told a friend that the often-injured player who seldom started will someday “be recognized as the greatest football coach of all time.”

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The two blueblood programs have played 95 times since 1924, when the story goes that the wife of legendary Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne convinced her husband to schedule the series so she could visit Southern California every other year.

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Ronald Reagan’s political slogan when he was running for president was “Win one for the Gipper,” a quote associated with his 1940 football film “Knute Rockne, All American.”

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