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Knute Rockne, All American
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Knute Rockne, All-American is a 1940 film directed by Lloyd Bacon and an uncredited William K. Howard, starring Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Donald Crisp, and Ronald Reagan.It's a Biopic of legendary college football coach Knute Rockne (O'Brien), who built the Notre Dame Fighting Irish into a football dynasty. Rockne emigrates to America with his Norwegian family as a child, then as a young adult he works until he has enough money to attend the University of Notre Dame. Rockne joins the football team as a receiver, and he and quarterback Gus Dorais popularize the use of the forward pass when they use it to upset Army in 1913.Rockne graduates from school, shows promise as a chemist, and actually teaches chemistry at Notre Dame for a while, but his love for football eventually leads him to take the job of head coach of the Fighting Irish football team. Rockne builds the Irish, formerly a rather small-scale program, into a top national power, and invents the "Notre Dame box", a highly successful offensive formation. One of his best players is George Gipp (Reagan), who becomes an All-American and a huge star before meeting a tragic end.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })While Ronald Reagan appears in only three scenes (totaling about ten minutes) as Gipp, he became strongly associated with the character, even more so when he went into politics and people started calling him "the Gipper". Latter-day releases of this movie tend to have Reagan featured much more prominently than the actual star, Pat O'Brien. | |
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As You Know: Used many times to get exposition across. After Pop Warner says something to Rockne, one of the other coaches says "Pop Warner is right!" | |
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Autobiographical Role: Real Life college football coaches Glenn "Pop" Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Howard Jones, and Bill Spaulding appear as themselves in a scene where they join up with Rockne to defend college football from a Congressional inquiry. | |
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Based on a Great Big Lie | |
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Based on a Great Big Lie: While much of the portrait of Rockne's life is fanciful, the iconic "win one for the Gipper" halftime speech is more or less accurate, based on a real speech that Rockne gave to his team at halftime of the 1928 game against Army. Gipp's death scene in which he delivers the line to Rockne is also dramatized. Rockne made the whole speech up in 1928 as a Motivational Lie; Gipp never said any such thing and Rockne wasn't even there when Gipp died. | |
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