75 years ago Friday, college football lost one of its greatest coaches in Notre Dame’s Knute Rockne. A small plane carrying Rockne and seven other men on its way to Los Angeles on March 31, 1931, crashed in the Flint Hills of Kansas, leaving no survivors. Lost in the wreckage of the Fokker F-10A aircraft was America’s most renowned college coach. In 13 years at Notre Dame, Rockne compiled a 103-12-5 record, 5 undefeated seasons and three national championships. His coaching career ended on a 19-game winning streak.

A few of Friday’s remembrances of the former coach’s passing included:

* A memorial service at the plane’s crash site near Bazaar, Kansas;

* A looping video of “Knute Rockne and his Fighting Irish” at the University of Notre Dame;

* And in Rockne’s hometown of Voss, Norway, a 700-pound, 7-foot-1-inch statue was unveiled on the shores of a lake bordering his family farm. A duplicate statue of the 1951 College Football Hall of Fame inductee stands outside the Hall in South Bend, Ind.