A look back at Reagan's Hollywood days The Notre Dame football team, inspired by late gridiron star George Gipp and the most famous halftime pep talk in sports history, rallied to upset undefeated Army in front of 85,000 fans at Yankee Stadium on this day in history, Nov.
10, 1928. Legendary head coach Knute Rockne's impassioned "Win one for the Gipper" speech echoed through the decades — far beyond the football field — and entered American cultural, political and military lore.
The struggling 1928 Notre Dame squad, newly dubbed the Fighting Irish a year earlier, scored two second-half touchdowns to come from behind and stun the powerful Cadets, 12-6. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, NOVEMBER 9, 1898, BERLIN WALL FALLS, MARKING COLD WAR VICTORY BY US, WESTERN ALLIES "Rockne was trying to salvage something from his worst season as a coach at Notre Dame," the University of Notre Dame archives note.
Rockne lost only 12 games in 13 seasons as Notre Dame's head coach — four of them in 1928. Army had dominated on its way to a 6-0 start that year and had lost only two games since 1925.