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Auction History Result 7h858 SPIRIT OF NOTRE DAME 8x10.25 still 1931 real life football player & coach Knute Rockne! Date Sold 6/11/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) The Spirit of Notre Dame, the 1931 Russell Mack college university football sports melodrama ("Dedicated to the memory of Knute Rockne!"; produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.; loosely based on the life of Knute Rockne, who died just before the movie was finished filming; about a Notre Dame coach and a brash young star, and how the coach assigns the star to block for another teammate to teach him humility, and he refuses, which causes him to be benched, but during the climactic Army game, he comes into the game and helps them win; there is also a subplot about the coach and a player in the hospital, obviously based on the real-life George Gipp) starring Lew Ayres, William Bakewell, Sally Blane, J. Farrell MacDonald, and Andy Devine, as well as a host of actual college football stars including "The Four Horseman" (Don Miller, James Crowley, Elmer Layden, and Harry A. Stuhldreher), and "Notre Dame's Greatest Stars" Frank Carideo ("All-American Quarterback"), Larry ("Moon") Mullins, John Law, Adam Walsh, John J. O'Brien, Al Howard, Arthur McManmon, and 'Bucky' O'Connor NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this wonderful still, which measures 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm], has a great image of legendary football coach/player Knute Rockne. This movie was made with his cooperation and was loosely based on his life. Very sadly, he passed away in March of 1931, so he did not live to see the finished movie, which opened in October 1931, and on the posters for the movie was the tagline "Dedicated to the memory of Knute Rockne". Obviously, they publicized him by creating this still, and we have never auctioned another like it! Condition: good to very good. There is small paper loss in the right blank border and some smudges around the edges. There is an enlarged pair of staple holes in the bottom center (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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