Who was George Gipp of Notre Dame, and why does his legend live on when so many others have faded?

That's a difficult, nearly impossible answer to get at. Gipp's life is so shrouded in mythology, the facts are hard to come by, nothing is etched in stone. The Gipp story has become, largely, a folk legend—something created in part by Hollywood and in part by such chroniclers of the '20s as the famous sportswriter Grantland Rice.

But certain items are known, as I learned in conversations with several former Gipp teammates, all of them now dead. What, in fact, did I learn? Well, for one thing, I learned that Gipp was a fine pool player.

Indeed, Gipp had a reputation as a hustler. "George played a lot of cards, and he shot a lot of pool—both for money, lots of money," said former Gipp teammate Heartly (Hunk) Anderson. I talked with Anderson a good while ago, just before his death in Florida in 1978.

"Every once in a while some of the hotshot pool players from Chicago would come to South Bend looking for action, and George would play them at $100 a ... more.

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