On that day, Notre Dame head football coach boarded a plane in Kansas City due to fly to Los Angeles. He was going there to help work on the motion picture “The Spirit of Notre Dame’, which was released to the public that fall.
By 1931, Knute Rockne had led a very small, Catholic university in northern Indiana to the top of the college football world. Rockne was an All-American wide receiver at Notre Dame, but it was his coaching that made him famous.
Knute Rockne was the head football coach at Notre Dame for 13 years from 1918 to 1930.