DNA tests show Gipp didn't father child

A/P via Yahoo ^ | November 11, 2007 | By JOHN FLESHER

[mmanager]

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - DNA from the recently exhumed body of college football hero George Gipp shows he was not the father of a child born shortly after his death, quelling longstanding rumors, relatives said Saturday.

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Gipp's remains were taken Oct. 4 for testing from a cemetery near the Upper Peninsula village of Laurium. Rick Frueh, whose grandmother was Gipp's sister, said in a statement he authorized the exhumation, which angered some family members.

Gipp died in 1920 from pneumonia and a strep infection during his senior year at Notre Dame, where he was the school's first All-American and set a school career rushing record that stood for more than 50 years.

[mmanager]

The phrase became a political slogan for Ronald Reagan, who portrayed Gipp in the 1940 movie "Knute Rockne, All American."

[the invisib1e hand]

ok. so the same minds that bring you global warming now want to dig up everyone's bodies to find out if they licked stamps or drank coke...

I mean, can't you even have privacy when you're freaking dead?

[labette]

Note to my descendants:
You may speculate and scratch your personal itches all you want.
But don’t dig me up to prove your point.

[PAR35]

Pre-dig thread here:

Notre Dame football star Gipp’s body exhumed for DNA testing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909863/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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"...it never ends! it never ends!"

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[bannie]

Cremate me.

If I raised you, you’re mine.

[longtermmemmory]

how many “false ancestors” have we had to suffer over the years.

Just look at the ridiculous Jefferson debate finding someone was within eight generations. IOW meaningless for DNA. Somwhere it is said ALL of humanity is within 15 generations related.

This is about bragging and writing rights. Just look at what the sexual activists do with claiming the dead.