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Played football for Notre Dame for 4 years. From 1916-1920.
Not a single pass was completed in his protective zone during four years on defence.
Gipp scored 83 touchdowns of offence.
During Gipp´s career Notre Dame compiled a 27-2-3 record. That included a 19-0-1 mark in his last 20 games. With Gipp in the team the Irish outscored their opponents 506 to 97. Notre Dame were undefeated in 1919 and 1920.
Over a 4-year career, the Gipper scored 83 touchdowns en route to Notre Dame´s amazing 27 wins, 2 losses, and 3 ties. On the defensive end, not a single pass was completed against his protective zone during his four years with the Irish. But sadly, it was to be a short career, far too short. Gipp contracted, on November 20, 1920, during a game against Illinois, a serious streptococcic infection of the throat which later worsened in his final game at Northwestern. George Gipp died on December 13, 1920.
Gipp led the Irish in rushing and passing each of the last three seasons (1918, 1919 and 1920). His career mark of 2.341 rushing yards lasted more than 50 years until Jerome Heavens broke it in 1978.
Gipp was Notre Dame´s first All-American.
Gipp is still the holder of a handful of Notre Dame records in a variety of categories.
He started as a freshman and his dramatic, game-winning 62-yard drop kick is still the second longest in intercollegiate competition.
Inducted into the Michigan Hall of Fame, Upper Peninsula Hall of Fame and later the National Hall of Fame in 1951.
The George Gipp Award is awarded to an outstanding senior athlete. It was started at his high school, the Calumet High School in 1934.
Gipp was a super baseball player at high school.
Gipp joined the Student Army Training Corp in 1918 and wasn´t drafted.
Gipp shifted from College of Arts to law in school.
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