DNA Tests Show Gipper Didn't Sire Child

November 11, 2007 By JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press Writer DNA Tests Show Gipper Didn't Sire Child (AP)

George Gipp, All American football player for Notre Dame, is shown in this undated file photo. DNA from the recently exhumed body of the college football hero shows he was not the father of a child born shortly before his death, quelling longstanding rumors, relatives said Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007. (AP Photo)

(AP) -- A paternity test shows college football hero George Gipp wasn't the father of a girlfriend's child born shortly after his death, a family member said Saturday, but bitterness persisted over the exhumation of the body.



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