New program BYU, aiming to scale the heights in football, turned to Knute Rockne for direction

by:Jim Lefebvre•10/07/22•

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Knute Rockne (front, sixth from right) in the summer of 1923 at BYU, where he taught football in the summer school session of the physical education department (BYU Archives).

BYU asked then-Notre Dame head coach Knute Rockne for help getting its fledgling football program off the ground in the summer of 1923.