In a day and age when professional football ratings are down by as much as 25% with fans turned off over the controversy of players taking a knee for the national anthem in protest of...well, of whatever each one may be protesting, there is an uplifting football story from the college ranks that lives on even though it took place on this day in 1928.

Ronald Reagan,the actor, starred and delivered the now famous line.

It was Army versus Notre Dame and the famous "Win One For The Gipper" game.  It really happened 89 years ago today and it happened like this:

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