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Author Robinson, Ray

Title Rockne of Notre Dame : the Making of a Football Legend
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 In the Land of Fjords; 2 Boyhood Heroes; 3 Notre Dame; 4 Knute Suits Up; 5 On the Wings of the Forward Pass; 6 A Man Must Coach; 7 The Legend of George Gipp; 8 An Athlete Dying Young; 9 The Ku Klux Klan on the March; 10 Life After Gipp; 11 The Ride of the Four Horsemen; 12 Charges and Countercharges; 13 On a Blue-Gray October Afternoon; 14 The Smell of Roses; 15 After the Four Horsemen; 16 The Coach Plays Hooky; 17 Ten Years at the Helm; 18 Twelfth Man; 19 On the Rebound; 20 The Last Season; 21 A Final Flight; Index
Summary Explores the life and career of Notre Dame's legendary football coach and examines his contributions to the sport as an innovator and renowned motivator
Notes Print version record
Subject Rockne, Knute, 1888-1931.
SUBJECT Rockne, Knute, 1888-1931 fast
Subject Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Football team)
SUBJECT Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Football team) fast
Subject Football coaches -- United States -- Biography
Football coaches
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780195355642
0195355644