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Gipp's Body Is Exhumed
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Published: October 11, 2007
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The body of George Gipp, the Notre Dame football player who inspired the rallying cry 'Win one for the Gipper,' was exhumed recently for DNA testing in his Upper Peninsula hometown.
The test was sought by the Gipp family and met legal requirements, Houghton County Medical Examiner Dawn Nulf said Wednesday, although it angered some relatives who live in the area where Gipp was born and raised.
Nulf declined comment about the request.
An ESPN crew filmed the exhumation for an upcoming story, but a spokesman said the network played no role in arranging it.
Gipp's remains were taken Oct. 4 from Lake View Cemetery near Laurium, about 550 miles northwest of Detroit, where he was buried in 1920 after dying from pneumonia and a strep infection during his senior year at Notre Dame. They were returned to the grave the same day.
The Associated Press
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