Along about ten o’clock he heard an explosion, then a crash. Soon afterward ... lay dead or dying. . . . Thus came Death to Knute Kenneth Rockne, famed 43-year-old coach of Notre Dame University ...

The farmers of Neodesha remembered that two years before, almost to the hour, Football Coach Knute Rockne and seven others had been killed in an airplane crash at Bazaar, 75 mi. away.