John Edward Chevigny was an American football player, coach, lawyer, and United States Marine Corps officer who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
22 Facts About Jack Chevigny
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Jack Chevigny is best known for scoring the famous "that's one for Gipper" touchdown for Notre Dame on November 10,1928, versus Army at Yankee Stadium.
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Jack Chevigny later served as the head coach of the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League in 1932 and the head football coach at the University of Texas from 1934 to 1936.
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Jack Chevigny is a member of the St Edwards University Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Jack Chevigny attended Catholic grade school in Dyer before moving to Hammond, Indiana, where he attended Hammond High School and played football at, and graduated president of his class in 1924.
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Part of the legend of Notre Dame football history was that Jack Chevigny, who played three seasons as right halfback from 1926 to 1928, scored the winning touchdown against Army on November 10,1928 in Yankee Stadium after Knute Rockne's famous "Win one for the Gipper" halftime speech with Jack Chevigny yelling, "That's one for the Gipper" as he crossed the goal line.
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Jack Chevigny became an assistant football coach under Rockne in 1929, and Notre Dame went undefeated that season and the next season winning two National Championships.
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Jack Chevigny who received his Notre Dame law degree in 1931, left Notre Dame football after Rockne's death in an airplane crash March 31,1931 and the 1931 football season.
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In 1937, Jack Chevigny resigned his Texas Longhorns coaching position and was appointed Deputy Attorney General of Texas.
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In March 1943, Jack Chevigny was drafted into the US Army after trying to enlist and being rejected because of a football knee injury he received while playing at Notre Dame.
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Jack Chevigny completed basic training at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Lawrence, Indiana.
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Jack Chevigny was assigned afterwards to Fort Lawton in Seattle, Washington, a training and staging base.
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Jack Chevigny received an honorable discharge from the US Army on June 10,1943, in order to be released for service in the Marine Corps Reserve.
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Jack Chevigny was directly commissioned a Marine Corps first lieutenant, going on active duty in the Marine Corps Reserve on June 11,1943, in Seattle.
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In September 1943, Chevigny was assigned to Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, as a physical training instructor, athletic officer, and assistant coach of the Camp Lejeune football team.
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Jack Chevigny soon became head coach, renaming the team which was named the " Camp Lejeune All-Stars", to the "Camp Lejeune Leathernecks".
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In January 1944, Jack Chevigny reported for duty at Camp Pendleton, California.
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Jack Chevigny went with his unit to Iwo Jima aboard the attack transport, USS Rutland.
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Jack Chevigny was one of the many hundreds of Marines and Navy corpsmen serving alongside them that were killed in action on the seven color-named and numbered landing zones, each 550 yards wide, that together stretched for two miles of beach on the southeast side of Iwo Jima.
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Jack Chevigny was buried in the 5th Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima and later was reburied in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Jack Chevigny's tombstone is located in Section C, Site 508.
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However, no one in the Jack Chevigny family has seen or confirmed the existence of the pen, or that the inscription was changed.