Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1920 — GEORGE GIPP, NOTRE DAME STAR. DEAD [ARTICLE]

GEORGE GIPP, NOTRE DAME STAR. DEAD

George Gipp, All-American halfback and recognized as the superfootball player of 1920, died at a South Bend .hospital early Tuesday his death resulting from pneumonia and throat trouble. Gipp’s death was the culmination of a three weeks’ illness which began in the form of tonsilitis. Gipp displayed the same remarkable nerve and fight against death as he exhibited on the football field, and twice after suffering relapses he rallied and it seemed that he was to win against death, but his third relapse proved too much and .he sank to his last rest at three-thirty o’clock. - Trustee Bowie made “Lefty” smile today when he told the sporting pen pusher that the leading lady of the Gordon Players was an artist of rare ability and that at each appearance at the Northern Jasper metropolis she became more popular with her audiences. “Lefty” says that is fine but he does not want this increase in poplar favor to become: individualised.