Author: Murray A. Sperber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215680
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"Sperber. . .tackles the details, great and small, unearthing a treasure." —New York Times Book Review Shake Down the Thunder traces the history of the Notre Dame football program—which has acquired almost mythical proportions—from its humble origins in the 19th century to its status as the paragon of college sports. It presents the true story of the program's formative years, the reality behind the myths. Both social history and sports history, this book documents as never before the first half-century of Notre Dame football and relates it to the rise of big-time intercollegiate athletics, the college sports reform movement, and the corrupt sporting press of the period. Shake Down the Thunder is must reading for all Fighting Irish fans, their detractors, and any reader engaged by American cultural history.
Shake Down the Thunder
Author: Murray A. Sperber
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215680
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"Sperber. . .tackles the details, great and small, unearthing a treasure." —New York Times Book Review Shake Down the Thunder traces the history of the Notre Dame football program—which has acquired almost mythical proportions—from its humble origins in the 19th century to its status as the paragon of college sports. It presents the true story of the program's formative years, the reality behind the myths. Both social history and sports history, this book documents as never before the first half-century of Notre Dame football and relates it to the rise of big-time intercollegiate athletics, the college sports reform movement, and the corrupt sporting press of the period. Shake Down the Thunder is must reading for all Fighting Irish fans, their detractors, and any reader engaged by American cultural history.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253215680
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"Sperber. . .tackles the details, great and small, unearthing a treasure." —New York Times Book Review Shake Down the Thunder traces the history of the Notre Dame football program—which has acquired almost mythical proportions—from its humble origins in the 19th century to its status as the paragon of college sports. It presents the true story of the program's formative years, the reality behind the myths. Both social history and sports history, this book documents as never before the first half-century of Notre Dame football and relates it to the rise of big-time intercollegiate athletics, the college sports reform movement, and the corrupt sporting press of the period. Shake Down the Thunder is must reading for all Fighting Irish fans, their detractors, and any reader engaged by American cultural history.
Rockne of Notre Dame
Author: Ray Robinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195157923
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
One of football's most innovative motivators is highlighted in this balanced account--"a solid portrait of one of football's most solid figures" ("The New York Times Book Review"). 19 halftones.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195157923
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
One of football's most innovative motivators is highlighted in this balanced account--"a solid portrait of one of football's most solid figures" ("The New York Times Book Review"). 19 halftones.
The Four Winners--the Head--the Hands--the Foot--the Ball
Author: Knute Rockne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Football players
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Football players
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Rockne of Notre Dame
Author: Rockne memorial association, Notre Dame, Ind
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Coach for a Nation
Author: Jim Lefebvre
Publisher: Cardinal Publishers Group
ISBN: 9780981884127
Category : Football coaches
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
He transformed the game of football forever and inspired a nation. Knute Rockne's journey from immigrant child to Notre Dame coaching legend to revered national figure shows us even today the endless possibilities of the human spirit. This book transports the reader to an extraordinary time of energy, excitement, passion, and possibilities in America of the early 20th century. Into this burgeoning drama stepped an immigrant lad destined to make his mark on the nation like few before him, or since. We see Rockne in his formative years in Chicago and learn of the moods and motivations that stay with him for life. He blossoms at Notre Dame and skyrockets to national fame because of his excellence as player and later coach of the Fighting Irish. Rockne's visionary genius made Notre Dame football a household name from coast-to-coast as second-generation immigrants packed newly-built stadiums across the land, while millions more gathered around their radios to listen to the weekly exploits of Rockne's "Wonder Team". Yet his story transcends athletics; it embodies the hope and promise of a new era dawning in the United States. All things were imaginable in a nation expanding in ways never before seen. Rockne was quick to grasp the latest innovations in communications, transportation, and business. With a quick wit and an engaging spirit, Rockne used football as a stage to connect with America. Upon his shocking death in an airplane crash in 1931 at the height of his popularity, the outpouring of sentiment from around the nation and world was unprecedented. Rockne's legacy, in life and in death, still impacts the game of college football and an American audience of the 21st century. Now his life story is told as never before.
Publisher: Cardinal Publishers Group
ISBN: 9780981884127
Category : Football coaches
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
He transformed the game of football forever and inspired a nation. Knute Rockne's journey from immigrant child to Notre Dame coaching legend to revered national figure shows us even today the endless possibilities of the human spirit. This book transports the reader to an extraordinary time of energy, excitement, passion, and possibilities in America of the early 20th century. Into this burgeoning drama stepped an immigrant lad destined to make his mark on the nation like few before him, or since. We see Rockne in his formative years in Chicago and learn of the moods and motivations that stay with him for life. He blossoms at Notre Dame and skyrockets to national fame because of his excellence as player and later coach of the Fighting Irish. Rockne's visionary genius made Notre Dame football a household name from coast-to-coast as second-generation immigrants packed newly-built stadiums across the land, while millions more gathered around their radios to listen to the weekly exploits of Rockne's "Wonder Team". Yet his story transcends athletics; it embodies the hope and promise of a new era dawning in the United States. All things were imaginable in a nation expanding in ways never before seen. Rockne was quick to grasp the latest innovations in communications, transportation, and business. With a quick wit and an engaging spirit, Rockne used football as a stage to connect with America. Upon his shocking death in an airplane crash in 1931 at the height of his popularity, the outpouring of sentiment from around the nation and world was unprecedented. Rockne's legacy, in life and in death, still impacts the game of college football and an American audience of the 21st century. Now his life story is told as never before.
Knute Rockne
On This Rockne
Author: Ralph McInerny
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312967383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
On the football-obsessed campus of Notre Dame, Marcus Bramble, a wealthy alum with an unhealthy passion for the sport, says he'll contribute $10 million if it's put toward a memorial to Knute Rockne, the university's legendary football coach. When Madeline Rune, a Notre Dame trustee, is found dead after disparaging remarks about the donation, Bramble, along with Madeline's womanizing husband, is suspected of foul play. But when her husband also turns up dead, the case becomes more impossible than a Hail Mary. As detective Philip Knight and his brother, brilliant philosophy professor Roger Knight, scour the campus for a killer, they're caught in a high-stakes scrimmage between the mega-bucks donor determined to resurrect Knute Rockne and the Notre Dame academia, dead-set on burying football for good. And in between this bitter campus infighting, the brothers must prevent the murderer's next play before football becomes the ultimate blood sport...
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312967383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
On the football-obsessed campus of Notre Dame, Marcus Bramble, a wealthy alum with an unhealthy passion for the sport, says he'll contribute $10 million if it's put toward a memorial to Knute Rockne, the university's legendary football coach. When Madeline Rune, a Notre Dame trustee, is found dead after disparaging remarks about the donation, Bramble, along with Madeline's womanizing husband, is suspected of foul play. But when her husband also turns up dead, the case becomes more impossible than a Hail Mary. As detective Philip Knight and his brother, brilliant philosophy professor Roger Knight, scour the campus for a killer, they're caught in a high-stakes scrimmage between the mega-bucks donor determined to resurrect Knute Rockne and the Notre Dame academia, dead-set on burying football for good. And in between this bitter campus infighting, the brothers must prevent the murderer's next play before football becomes the ultimate blood sport...
Loyal Sons
Author: Jim Lefebvre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981884103
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Foreword by Don Miller Jr. & Harry Stuhldreher Jr. Afterword by Patrick Crowley & Elmer Layden Jr." -- Jkt.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981884103
Category : Football
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Foreword by Don Miller Jr. & Harry Stuhldreher Jr. Afterword by Patrick Crowley & Elmer Layden Jr." -- Jkt.
Knute Rockne
Author: Michael R. Steele
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781571672551
Category : Football coaches
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tragic aeroplane crash in 1931 cut short the amazing life of Knute Kenneth Rockne, the famous football coach at the University of Notre Dame. His 12 years as the Flighting Irish head coach left a legacy that, to this day, still rates as the national record for winning percentage among college coaches. Knute Rockne: A Portrait of a Notre Dame Legend delves into the intriguing facets of Rockne's life and ends with the original interviews with Irish players who survived him some sixty years later. Augmented by dozens of rare photographs, this fascinating book furnishes readers with a superb understanding of one of American sports' most unique individuals.
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9781571672551
Category : Football coaches
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A tragic aeroplane crash in 1931 cut short the amazing life of Knute Kenneth Rockne, the famous football coach at the University of Notre Dame. His 12 years as the Flighting Irish head coach left a legacy that, to this day, still rates as the national record for winning percentage among college coaches. Knute Rockne: A Portrait of a Notre Dame Legend delves into the intriguing facets of Rockne's life and ends with the original interviews with Irish players who survived him some sixty years later. Augmented by dozens of rare photographs, this fascinating book furnishes readers with a superb understanding of one of American sports' most unique individuals.
The Gipper
Author: Jack Cavanaugh
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616081104
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Sportswriter Jack Cavanaugh examines the lives of George Gipp and Knute Rockne and discusses how they transformed Notre Dame into a football powerhouse.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616081104
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Sportswriter Jack Cavanaugh examines the lives of George Gipp and Knute Rockne and discusses how they transformed Notre Dame into a football powerhouse.