CLEMSON – It wasn’t quite “Win one for the Gipper,” but Clemson’s football team had its back against the wall Saturday, and somehow the Tigers beat the breaks and defeated Notre Dame.
The legend at Notre Dame says that coach Knute Rockne, in his worst season at South Bend in 1928, decided to tell his team about George Gipp at halftime as the Irish prepared to play Army. He said that Gipp, on his deathbed, told Rockne, ”Sometime, when the team is up against it -- and the breaks are beating the boys -- tell them to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper.