100 Years of Notre Dame Football - Hardcover

Schoor, Gene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688072186 ISBN 13: 9780688072186

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Schoor, Gene

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From Publishers Weekly

In 1887, a small college in South Bend, Ind., played its first football game against the powerful University of Michigan and lost, giving little indication that it would become the nation's dominant gridiron school over the next 100 years. That century is chronicled in detail by the author of The Billy Martin Story and The Tom Seaver Story and makes for exciting reading for any football fan. Emphasized are Knute Rockne, who as a player teamed with Gud Dorais in 1913 to show the East Coast the power of the passing game and went on to become one of the most successful coaches of all time; the legendary Frank Leahy, of the late 1940s and early '50s; and Ara Parseghian, the great coach of the '60s and '70s. There are also tales of such outstanding players as George Gipp, Paul Hornung, Bill Shakespeare (whose weakest subject, incidentally, was English), Joe Theisman and Joe Montana. This book is literally a history of all top-level collegiate football for the century. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame will forever be remembered as America's favorite college football team, despite recent years of mediocre performances. In this straightforward and well-researched account on the 100th anniversary of Notre Dame football, Schoor recalls the many legends: "Win just one for the Gipper" and Grantland Rice's immortal words "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky rode the Four Horsemen." The book is mainly for sports history buffs, who will recall the inspirational coaching years of Knute Rockne and others such as Frank Leahy and Ara Parseghian, plus the numerous national championship teams and all-Americans to come out of the South Bend, Indiana school. Included are all team and individual records. (Photos not seen.) For most sports collections. Samuel Simons, Memorial Hall Lib., Andover, Mass.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0688072186
• ISBN 13: 9780688072186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254