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  • DNA tests show Gipp didn't father child

    11/11/2007 6:06:48 AM PST · by mmanager · 6 replies · 117+ views
    A/P via Yahoo ^ | November 11, 2007 | By JOHN FLESHER
    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. ADVERTISEMENT 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...