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History  he was born March 4, 1888 and died March 31, 1931 but his spirate still lives on He was Notre Dame head coach he was a great perhaps the best we have even seen he was a head coach for the Fighting Irish from 1918 to 1930. He set the greatest all-time winning percentage of .881. During the years he coach he h collected 105 victories, 12 losses. Witch is amazing. He had five ties and six national championships. He was known for being motivavation and inspiring in the locker room and was famous fro speeches mostly for this on call the gipper. |
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Witch goes “ Well, boys ... I haven't a thing to say. Played a great game...all of you. Great game. I guess we just can't expect to win ‘em all. I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years -- None of you ever knew George Gipp. It was long before your time. But you know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame... And the last thing he said to me -- "Rock," he said - "sometime, when the team is up against it -- and the breaks are beating the boys -- tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the GipperI don't know where I'll be then, Rock", he said - "but I'll know about it - and I'll be happy." |
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 He also had many famous quotes"I'd run along the beach, Dorais would throw from all angles. People who didn't know 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 tose are a few |
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he died when The airplane he was traveling on, route from Kansas City to Los Angeles, and crashed into farm lands. |
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His highlighs of his life Lost only 12 games in thirteen years at Notre Dame Was a chemist, assistant track coach and assistant football coach before becoming head football coach of Notre Dame Best known for the "Four Horseman" backfield of 1924 and "Win One for the Gipper" speech in 1928 In 1999, was named #10 on ESPN SportsCentury's Greatest Coaches |
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"Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden. They formed the crest of South Bend cyclone before which another fighting army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo grounds this after- noon as 55.000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out on the green plain below". –that was wriitein by a famous writer inNew York Herald Tribune on October 19, 1924. The charitarists of the four horse men was speed and power.
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 The current capacity of Notre Dame Stadium is 80,795 |
Nearly two years worth of additions and improvements to the yellow-bricked arena were part of a $50 million |
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