August 25, 2025      While on a recent visit to my boyhood hometown of Dayton, Ohio I found a book on Knute Rockne titled of all things  "Rockne of Notre Dame,  The Making of a Football Legend" by Ray Robinson, Oxford University Press, 1999, 290 pages.   Why does a track blogger even bring up such a book on a blog devoted to a very different sport?  The reason being is I remembered reading somewhere that my former coach at the University of Oklahoma ,  John Jacobs, had been inducted into the Drake Relays Hall of Fame and Knute Rockne was also inducted along with Coach Jacobs at the same ceremony.  "Jake" was actually retired long before I arrived at the campus at Norman, OK, but he was still acting assistant coach in those days and was usually around offering us words of encouragement and condemnation in the tones of the 1920's.  His wit was classic old school stuff.  "That was a good throw, son, only thing...