What you see below is a small piece of football coaching history.
Knute Rockne served as Notre Dame's head coach from 1918-30, leading the Irish to a 105 wins, 12 losses and five ties in his 13 seasons, before passing away in a plane crash over Bazaar, Kan., on March 31, 1931 at the age of 43. Rockne was one of the first superstar coaches in college football history. More than anyone else, he's the reason Notre Dame is the special, golden-topped snowflake it is today.
And posted below by @PressRoomGFS are three plays Rockne scribbled on Notre Dame letterhead. Here's the most amazing thing to me: think about all the advances that have been made in football over the past 90 years. We're not even talking about advances in equipment, strength and conditioning, nutrition, technology or any of that. We're just talking about the schematics of football, how the X's intertwine with the O's.
All the new ideas, new coaches, new rules, new everything have passed, and a play drawn up eight or nine decades ago would still work just as well today as it did back then.
