While Loyola University’s football team enjoyed moderate...

While Loyola University’s football team enjoyed moderate success before being disbanded in the 1950s, it holds a special place in cinematic gridiron history.

The Westchester school’s Sullivan Field was the location of the action scenes for the 1941 film, “Knute Rockne--All American,” a biography of the famous Notre Dame player and coach. The film is best remembered for the “Win One for the Gipper” speech made by an actor who received third billing--Ronald Reagan.

Reagan was not yet a star. And, indeed, when the school’s Loyolan newspaper wrote an article about the film crew’s invasion, it mentioned only one performer, Pat O’Brien, who played Rockne.

But, showing he harbors no grudges over the lack of publicity, “the Gipper” has agreed to a return visit to Loyola Marymount, as it is now known. As part of the Associated Students’ speakers series, he will give an address in the university’s Gersten Pavilion and take questions from students afterward.

The former President, who recently filled his saddlebags with $2 million in fees during a visit to Japan, will retain his amateur status at Loyola. The school said he has waived his speaker’s fee.

Sign in a fast-food market on Anaheim Street in Long Beach:

“No more than three (3) students at a time in store.”

And the limit on dropouts?

Standing 25-feet high and weighing 900 pounds, it’s a tough shoe to fill.

But the Two/Ten Foundation seems to be succeeding. An international philanthropic organization, the agency has been traveling throughout the United States and Canada since February and has donated more than 35,000 pairs of shoes to the homeless.

The foundation’s symbolic shoe will set down on the Spring Street steps of City Hall at 11 a.m. today, when the organization donates 3,500 pairs of shoes to the Salvation Army of Los Angeles, which will distribute them to the needy.

Since The Times strives to be the paper of record, we should mention that in all the hoopla over the Ziploc National Sandwich Day contest this past Friday, Fig Day was overlooked. But The Times wasn’t alone in downplaying the occasion.

Mayor Bradley signed the proclamation noting that “figs have been a popular fruit for Californians since the ‘49er days, when miners recognized the nutritional value of figs in their otherwise meager and boring diet.”

But a spokesman for Bradley admitted, “I can’t really tell you too much on the background,” noting that His Honor signs anywhere from three to 10 proclamations per day.

And while the Sandwich Day contest--on the purported birthday of the Earl of Sandwich--drew actor Dom DeLuise to look over the numerous entries, Fig Day attracted no celebrities, or miners, for that matter.

One police officer said no one was even aware of Fig Day at the one LAPD station that would seem most likely to know--the Newton Division.