"Win One for the Gipper" 

Ronald Reagan was born in small town Illinois in 1911. Called "Dutch" as a child, he became a sportscaster after graduating from college, then an "B" movie actor, usually a supporting cast member, less often the leading man. Cast as terminally ill George Gipp in "Knute Rockne: All-American" (1940), Reagan acquired another nickname when he told the actor portraying legendary Notre Dame football coach Rockne to "win just one for the Gipper", by which Reagan would thereafter be called.
Comic actor Leslie Nielsen parodied the scene in the hilarious spoof of disaster movies, 1980's "Airplane!", with the Notre Dame Fight Song behind his effort to inspire a shell-shocked pilot to "win just one for the Zipper".
Sources: "Knute Rockne: All-American" (1940); "Airplane!" (1980).