Harron Robert (16 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Frontispiece of Rockne in football uniform, dated 1913. No marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding square, tight and sound. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket with chipping to upper and lower spine, 1/2" piece missing from bottom front cover and general wear. Dust jacket is protected in a Brodart acid-free archival quality acetate cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in box. 240 pp plus ads. Bubble wrapped and shipped in box. SP Bub.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and faded spots. Yellowed pages. No marks or folds.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Blue w/black lettering. Shelfwear head nad heel of spine, corners bumped. Dampstain top margin, does not affect text, which appears and disappears throughout. Illustrated throughout with photographs.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

First Edition. Hard cover. 8vo. 240pp. Clean text. Very good boards and bidning. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition Stated. Written by Lou Little, then head coach of Columbia University. Edge wear. Dark blue white lettered with football player tossing ball on front cover. xviii, 315 with illustrations. Near very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Long former owner's inscription, about very good lacking the dustwrapper.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book and dust jacket in excellent, unmarked condition. Jacket unclipped and unfaded, in new protective mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 240, [14] pages. Frontis Illustration. Illustrations. Tributes. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Ink notation on fep. First edition of noted sportswriter Harron's authoritative early posthumous biography of Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, published the same year as Rockne's tragic death, in original dust jacket. As many of his biographers have noted, "Knute Rockne was a revolutionary in practically every aspect of football. He was a ceaseless innovator and the first to use âshock troops' or subs, to soften up his opponents. the first coach to send his team from coast to coast. one of the first to emphasize sprint practice, [and] one of the first to break down his players into small groups. In 1931 sportswriter Robert Harron, published this early authoritative biography shortly after Rockne's tragic death from a plane crash that March. Harron had interviewed the legendary Notre Dame coach shortly before that fatal crash. "âI don't like to lose,' he told me the last time I saw him. . because defeat means the failure to reach your objective" (27). Featuring tributes from Calvin Coolidge and leading football coaches at the U.S. Military Academy, Yale and Stanford. With frontispiece and six full-page illustrations, and the line-ups of the "Rockne Ramblers" for 1919, 1920, 1929 & 1930, along with the complete roster of the 1930 team. Three leaves of publisher's ads at rear. Mr. Harron was a noted sportswriter during the 1920s and 1930. In 1938 Mr. Harron came to Columbia University on a full-time basis in charge of sports publicity. In 1945 he was appointed Director of the University Public Information Office. Knute Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 - March 31, 1931) was a Norwegian-American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame. Rockne is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history. His biography at the College Football Hall of Fame identifies him as "without question, American football's most-renowned coach". Rockne helped to popularize the forward pass and made the Notre Dame Fighting Irish a major factor in college football. During 13 years as head coach, Rockne led Notre Dame to 105 victories, 12 losses, five ties and three consensus national championships, which included five undefeated and untied seasons.[14] Rockne posted the highest all-time winning percentage (.881) for a major college football coach. His schemes utilized the eponymous Notre Dame Box offense and the 7-2-2 defense. Rockne's box included a shift. The backfield lined up in a T-formation, then quickly shifted into a box to the left or right just as the ball was snapped. Rockne was also shrewd enough to recognize that intercollegiate sports had a show-business aspect. Thus he worked hard promoting Notre Dame football to make it financially successful. He used his considerable charm to court favor from the media, which then consisted of newspapers, wire services and radio stations and networks, to obtain free advertising for Notre Dame football. He was very successful as an advertising pitchman for South Bend-based Studebaker and other products. He eventually received an annual income of $75,000 from Notre Dame. The national champion 1924 team included the "Four Horsemen" backfield of Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden. The line was known as the "Seven Mules". The Irish capped an undefeated 10-0 season with a victory over Stanford in the Rose Bowl. Both the 1929 and the 1930 teams went undefeated and were national champions. According to interviews, Rockne considered his 1929 team his strongest overall. Rockne also said he considered his 1930 team to have been his best offensively before the departure of Jumping Joe Savoldi. Rockne was struck with illness in 1929, and the de facto head coach was assistant Tom Lieb. Rockne's all-time All-America backfield was Jim Thorpe, Red Grange, George Gipp, and George Pfann. Rockne died in the crash of a Transcontinental & Western Air airliner in Kansas on March 31, 1931. Driven by the public feeling for Rockne, the crash story played out at length in nearly all the nation's newspapers and public demand for an inquiry into the crash's causes and circumstances ensued. The national outcry over the disaster that killed Rockne and seven others triggered sweeping changes to aircraft design, manufacturing, operation, inspection, maintenance, regulation and crash investigation, igniting a safety revolution that ultimately transformed airline travel worldwide from the most dangerous forms of travel to one of the safest.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. (1935), 315pp, illus., blue cloth, slight soiling to cover & top pg edges, some shelfwear to cover, no dj, contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. , Inner Hinges starting slightly cracked, Preface by Author, HARDBACK NODustjacket ISSUED, 1935, Stated 1ST EDITION, GOOD/GOOD+ Condition, AS-IS, Slightly worn THICK Blue cloth boards with white of Football Player getting ready toss Football shows wear Foxing to edges-- 8 book is 8vo and has wear on edges - NOJACKET, Complete with No loose pages.some wear on the cover , Interior nice tight clean light wear FOX, 315 pgs.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.