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1931
The flight: On March 31, 1931, Rockne, aged 43, boarded Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 from Kansas City to Los Angeles, travelling to work on the film The Spirit of Notre Dame — released October 13, 1931. The Fokker trimotor flew into a storm, iced, and crashed in a wheat field near Bazaar, Kansas. Rockne and seven others were killed; there were no survivors.
The memorials: The Knute Rockne Memorial Building rose on the campus in 1937. A memorial stands at the crash site near Bazaar. The Dickinson System's championship trophy took his name from 1931 — the Knute Rockne Intercollegiate Memorial Trophy. On March 9, 1988, he became the first athletic coach pictured on a United States postage stamp.
Sources:
- The Flight 599 record — the date, the route, the aircraft, the storm and icing, the crash site, the eight dead.
- Memorial records — the 1937 Memorial Building, the Bazaar site memorial, the 1988 stamp.
- Dickinson System record — the successor trophy's naming for Rockne from 1931.