Tom_Gorman_(American_football)
Tom Gorman (American football)
American football player and coach (1910–1975)
Thomas Anthony "Kitty" Gorman (June 9, 1910 – April 8, 1975)[1] was an American college football player and coach. Gorman starred as a prep at St. Philip's in Chicago, Illinois.[2][3] Gorman played center at University of Notre Dame on the freshman team in 1929[4] and on the varsity from 1930 to 1933.[5][6][7] He was one of the team's two captains in 1933.[8] During the 1933 season, Gorman's father wrote a letter to Notre Dame Vice President John Francis O'Hara, complaining that "[t]here is something radically wrong" with Hunk Anderson's coaching, blaming the younger Gorman for losses.[9] Anderson was fired after the 1933 season, the school's first losing season since 1888.
Gorman began his career at Notre Dame playing for famed coach Knute Rockne. James Bacon recounts a story implicating the mob in the Rockne's death that he heard with "Kitty" Gorman from Father John Reynolds when Bacon and Gorman were students at Notre Dame.[10][11][12][13]
After his college playing career, Gorman played in the first Chicago College All-Star Game, tying the Chicago Bears.[14]