The rich bottomland soil near creeks and rivers was ideal for farming. That is still the case today, except something seems missing. Brown's family settled here in the s when there were still Native Americans in the area.
Its history is in her bones. The previous owners gave Easter Heathman the combination to the locks on the cattle gates leading to the site. No more. The Petersons prefer it that way. Brown's husband would like to get up there earlier to trim weeds beforehand. That used to be a regular occurrence. Nils has visited the site maybe a half-dozen times. For Knute III, this will be the first trip.
The burden of carrying his grandfather's name may be one of the reasons. When I was a young coach, everybody kept bringing up my grandfather. I didn't get into coaching to be my grandfather. I got into it because I wanted to get into it. It always seemed like everybody was a little more willing to bring up my grandfather when comparing me. He traveled West to Utah State where he was a backup wide receiver. But during road trips, there would inevitably be local stories about him instead of the Aggies' main contributors.
He sensed his teammates' resentment. I had to be an All-American. I had to someone who never lost a game. It took a while for me to get to that point where I could be me and not have to look over my shoulder. That's the famous "win one for the Gipper" film that enhanced, if not established, the Notre Dame mystique. The year-old has not yet been informed about the significance of his first name.
Maybe that's easier these days. It takes a real sports fan to make a connection. Knute III, 70, retired after the season having spent more than 40 years as a high school coach in Utah.
When you think college football, you think Knute Rockne at Notre Dame. His squads more than quadrupled their opponents' scoring. Much like the grand design of his football program, Rockne's oratory carried few statutes of limitations. He was renowned for his inspirational pep talks and his magnetic personality won over not only players but alumni, school officials, sportswriters and all those important to the growth of his football fiefdom.
And when Rockne wanted something badly enough, he wasn't adverse to stretching the truth. In one locker-room speech, he concocted a story about his six-year-old son being hospitalized and pleading for a victory. In another, Rockne dramatically told of a possible Rose Bowl bid awaiting the team. In yet another, he implied that Indiana's fierce tackling style the previous year might have contributed to Notre Dame star George Gipp's death. Gipp, though, had died of pneumonia.
Rockne's celebrated "win one for the Gipper" halftime speech during the Army game, which purportedly revived Gipps' last words eight years after the player's death, fostered much debate. By some accounts, the coach hadn't been at Gipp's bedside in his final days and the reference was fabrication. Beyond the pomp, play-acting and persuasion, though, was undeniable coaching genius.
Rockne developed a passing offense that helped to broaden the game's appeal. His "Notre Dame shift" -- a quick, pre-snap movement by his backfield -- was so successful that college rules-makers soon outlawed it. The Rockne crash eventually led to the design and manufacture of the Douglas DC-2, the first airliner built using all-metal, stressed-skin construction, and a host of other innovations.
It, along with the DC-3, provided the safety and comfort, combined with economy, that allowed the swift expansion of the worldwide passenger airline industry as we know it today. The role of government in requiring safer planes also took off. Spurred by the crash of March 31, , the Aeronautics Branch took on greater duties in certifying aircraft and regulating the industry, and in was renamed the Bureau of Air Commerce to reflect its enhanced status within the Commerce Department.
It took the crash that killed Rockne, and another four years later that claimed Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post, to create a much more vigorous role for the federal government in airline regulation, aircraft safety and crash site security, investigation and reporting. Send letters to letters suntimes. Know about breaking news as it happens. We follow the stories and update you as they develop. The lockdown affects about 2 million people in the Alpine country of 8. During the daytime shootout, fragments of a round of ammunition struck the 1-year-old and lodged in his head as he rode in a vehicle with his mother, grandmother and siblings.
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Springfield Washington Elections. Dear Abby Horoscopes Lifestyles Music. View Obituaries Place an Obituary Celebrations. The ramifications of all this became clear, the meaning real, in the tragic first week of April If there is a recording of Rockne's funeral, or of any of the radio tributes to Rockne that aired the week of his death, they are well hidden.
Much of this story is derived from the written journalism of the day. That work during the week of Rockne's funeral is invaluable both as historical record and emotional thermometer.
Of the three national radio networks, Columbia, as CBS was known in its early days, took a chance on broadcasting a funeral. Columbia took the chances that upstarts take. NBC, which started in , so ruled the airwaves that it split into two networks, the Red and the Blue. Bill Paley, the year-old scion of a Philadelphia cigarmaker, bought Columbia in He got all of 16 affiliates. By , Paley had increased that number fourfold.
Columbia broadcast special events that year, many more than the by NBC on both of its networks. That's because NBC didn't need special events. In the radio season, 24 of the top 25 shows ran on NBC. Boosting news and public affairs became the cheapest way to forge ahead and build a reputation.
That's what Paley did. He hired Ted Husing to broadcast sporting events, and Husing broadcast a lot of them. If NBC owned the ratings during the week, Columbia made the weekend competitive, no small thanks to Husing. The nascent radio networks had just begun to broadcast sporting events and political conventions "nation-wide. Four years earlier, he had been the on-air talent for the Lindbergh parade. But McNamee didn't know a lot about sports. He developed a reputation for inaccuracy.
Sportswriter Ring Lardner once said, "I attended a doubleheader today: the game I saw and the one that McNamee announced. As McNamee described the action, some listeners thought, "There he goes again.
Husing, meanwhile, had a sonorous voice and an extensive vocabulary, and he loved to use them to deliver a crisp, accurate broadcast. He met with football coaches extensively during the offseason and before games.
Husing and Rockne became good friends; one biographer of Husing called Rockne "the big brother that Husing never had. When the Fighting Irish concluded the season, their second consecutive undefeated season, with a victory at USC on Dec. Husing contacted Rockne and asked him to come to New York to serve as his analyst on the broadcast of the Army-Navy game the following Saturday.
Rockne believed in airplanes as the future of American travel. He loved the speed and convenience. He could leave the Notre Dame campus and get to Los Angeles within 24 hours. Think of it! A train would take three days. Rockne might have been what we now call an early adopter, but he wasn't that far ahead of the American public.
The number of commercial passengers in America in topped ,, a percent increase over Rockne had left his family vacationing in Florida to return to work. He would stay for two days, filled with meetings and speeches.
One report said that both Northwestern coach Dick Hanley and Rockne's business manager, Christy Walsh, intended to travel with him. Both decided not to go. Hanley's wife believed it wasn't safe. The pilot and co-pilot had six passengers. The plane went down east of Wichita on a farm near Bazaar, Kansas.
The Associated Press reported the story around 1 p. Eastern time, referring to the plane as a "merchant liner," as if it were an airborne boat.
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