3 1931 NY Times newspapers KNUTE ROCKNE DEATH FUNERAL Notre Dame Football Coach
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3 1931 NY Times newspapers KNUTE ROCKNE DEATH FUNERAL Notre Dame Football Coach:
$90.00
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These newspapers contain inside page headline, headings, photo, and long detailed reports on the DEATH and FUNERAL of Notre Dame football coach KNUTE ROCKNE who died in an airplane crash in Kansas.
Knute Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was an American football player and coach, both at the University of Notre Dame. He is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history. His biography at the College Football Hall of Fame calls him \"without question, American football\'s most-renowned coach.\" A Norwegian American, he was educated as a chemist at the University of Notre Dame. He popularized the forward pass and made Notre Dame a major factor in collegiate football.
Rockne died in the crash of an airplane -- TWA Flight 599—in Kansas on March 31, 1931, while en route to participate in the production of the film The Spirit of Notre Dame (released October 13, 1931). He had stopped in Kansas City, to visit his two sons, Bill and Knute Jr., who were in boarding school there at the Pembroke-Country Day School, A little over an hour after taking off from Kansas City, one of the Fokker Trimotor\'s wings separated in flight. The plane crashed into a wheat field near Bazaar, Kansas, killing Rockne and seven others.
Ironically, a friend, the coach whom he had replaced at Notre Dame, had been living in the area near the crash, and was one of those called to identify Rockne\'s body. On the spot where the plane crashed, a memorial dedicated to the victims stands surrounded by a wire fence with wooden posts; it was maintained for many years by James Easter Heathman, who, at age 13 in 1931, was one of the first people to arrive at the site of the tragedy.
The sudden, dramatic death of Rockne startled the nation, and triggered a national outpouring of grief, comparable to the deaths of presidents. President Herbert Hoover called Rockne\'s death \"a national loss.\" King Haakon VII of Norway (Rockne\'s birthplace) posthumously knighted Rockne, and sent a personal envoy to Rockne\'s massive funeral. Tens of thousands of people from across the nation gathered for the funeral, which was broadcast around the globe.
Rockne was buried in Highland Cemetery in South Bend.
Driven by the public feeling for Rockne, the crash story played out at length in nearly all of the nation\'s newspapers, and gradually evolved into a demanding public inquiry into the causes and circumstances of the crash.
The national outcry over the air disaster that killed Rockne (and the 7 others), triggered sweeping changes to airliner design, manufacturing, operation, inspection, maintenance, regulation and crash-investigation—igniting a safety revolution that ultimately transformed airline travel, worldwide, from the most dangerous form of travel to the safest form of travel.
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