The phrase itself goes further back, but it’s been 75 years since eventual 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan brought “win one for the Gipper” to the big screen. Knute Rockne ...

ROCKNE OF NOTRE DAME: The Making of a Football Legend By Ray Robinson Oxford University Press, 290 pages, $25 There can scarcely be any fan of sport–or politics, for that matter–who doe… ...

RONALD Reagan – whose Hollywood career is often dismissed as a mere steppingstone to The Gipper’s presidency – could occasionally score as an actor, a month-long retrospective on … ...

Reagan, famously known as “The Gipper” for playing a gravely ill football player in the “Knute Rockne All American” film, even joked with the doctors who operated on him. “Please tell me ...

Ronald Reagan holds a football in a scene from the 1940 film “Knute Rockne – All American,” in which Reagan portrays Notre Dame halfback George Gipp. Others are unidentified.

At the movies: Will Ronald Reagan be back in South Bend, Ind., next month for a recreated premiere of ”Knute Rockne, All-American,” in which he portrayed Notre Dame halfback George Gipp… ...

FILM historians tend to dismiss the Great Communicator’s Hollywood career as a mere steppingstone to the presidency, but “The Ronald Reagan Signature Collection” (Warner, $50, out… ...

Reagan earned the nickname “the Gipper” for his first big role as an actor portraying gravely ill football player George Gipp in the 1940 film classic “Knute Rockne, All American.” ...

Ronald Reagan’s presidency lasted eight long years. ... That of George Gipp of Notre Dame in the 1940 film Knute Rockne: ... “Rockne” does just this at halftime of the 1928 victory over Army.