“This is Grandpa Knute. Grandma Bonnie. Uncle Bill and across the way is my youngest brother Timothy,” said Jeanne Anne as she pointed out the graves. When Rockne was killed in a plane crash ...

“Knute Rockne, All American,” then used it as a campaign slogan that helped propel him to the presidency in 1980. When Rockne himself died tragically in a plane crash in 1931, it cemented a ...