Knute Rockne (whose family was Norwegian) was memorialized by the King of Norway . . .

ESPN -- piece on the death of the College

Football and how it dominated a very young

SPORTS COMMUNICATION / media

when he died at Easter / Holy Week late March

1931

espn.com/college-football/story/

rockne was initially buried at 

Highland Cemetery a few miles

from campus.

REPORTER Ivan Maisel

online article 4/4/2019

"Knute Rockne's funeral and 

the dawn of a new American experience"