Gipper Stamp

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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2190952Notre Dame fans want green-letter day for Gipp Associated Press
LAURIUM, Mich. -- Stamp one for the Gipper!

A number of dedicated Notre Dame fans are asking the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring George Gipp, the football star and native of this former copper mining village in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where a park is named for him.

"Gipp was one of the greatest football players of all time," said Emil Klosinski of Winter Springs, Fla., a Notre Dame alumnus and author of a book about Gipp. His father was a friend of the Gipp family.

Klosinski is leading the campaign for a Gipp stamp. He's asking supporters to write to the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, which evaluates proposals for stamp subjects and makes recommendations to the postmaster general.

Regarded as one of the greatest all-around football players, Gipp excelled at running, passing, defense and kicking. He once drop-kicked a 62-yard field goal.

He was selected as the top college football player in 1920, was the recipient of the Helms Foundation Award, equivalent to the Heisman Trophy, and was the first Notre Dame player named to the Walter Camp All-American team.

He died at age 25 from pneumonia and a strep infection.

According to legend, as he lay dying, Gipp told coach Knute Rockne that when the chips were down, he should exhort the team to "win one for the Gipper." That became an immortal rallying cry.

Gipp was portrayed by Ronald Reagan in the 1940 movie "Knute Rockne, All American."

 

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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2190952Notre Dame fans want green-letter day for Gipp Associated Press
LAURIUM, Mich. -- Stamp one for the Gipper!

A number of dedicated Notre Dame fans are asking the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring George Gipp, the football star and native of this former copper mining village in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where a park is named for him.

"Gipp was one of the greatest football players of all time," said Emil Klosinski of Winter Springs, Fla., a Notre Dame alumnus and author of a book about Gipp. His father was a friend of the Gipp family.

Klosinski is leading the campaign for a Gipp stamp. He's asking supporters to write to the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, which evaluates proposals for stamp subjects and makes recommendations to the postmaster general.

Regarded as one of the greatest all-around football players, Gipp excelled at running, passing, defense and kicking. He once drop-kicked a 62-yard field goal.

He was selected as the top college football player in 1920, was the recipient of the Helms Foundation Award, equivalent to the Heisman Trophy, and was the first Notre Dame player named to the Walter Camp All-American team.

He died at age 25 from pneumonia and a strep infection.

According to legend, as he lay dying, Gipp told coach Knute Rockne that when the chips were down, he should exhort the team to "win one for the Gipper." That became an immortal rallying cry.

Gipp was portrayed by Ronald Reagan in the 1940 movie "Knute Rockne, All American."

this will be interesting as Gipp was never went to class and was often inebriated.

 

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"George Gipp was the original Florida State Seminole"

"George Gipp was the original Florida State Seminole"

Here is a snippet from SI.com (and ND grad) columnist John Waters, who penned this piece back in September:

George Gipp? For two of his four full school years, the Gipper received no grades whatsoever. According to Notre Dame history professor Robert Burns (as quoted in Shake Down the Thunder, Murray Sperber's extremely thorough book on the school's gridiron past), "Gipp rarely went to class, not at all his last year. He was in a different major every year to take the easy courses."

Gipp also lived off campus in a luxurious hotel and earned almost all of his money by gambling on billiards and cards. George Gipp was the original Florida State Seminole. That was from 1916-20. In 1920 Gipp flunked out of Notre Dame. Later the school allowed him to re-enroll. Sound familiar? In 2002 Julius Jones, like Gipp the best player on the squad, flunked out of Notre Dame. Later the school allowed him to re-enroll.