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Ohio State Almost Hired Knute Rockne Away From Notre Dame

In light of Ohio State's recent championship win against Notre Dame and the coaching carousel surrounding college football, Remember When takes us back to a time when Ohio State almost poached Fighting Irish legend Knute Rockne.

Born in 1888, Rockne was an immigrant from Norway who came to the United States with his parents when he was five. The family settled in Chicago, and in later years Rockne would go on to foster close ties with the state of Ohio. In his early twenties he was a lifeguard at Cedar Point, where he met his wife Bonnie, and they later married in Sandusky.