Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football
by Murray A. Sperber
List Price:
Our Price: $19.99
You Save: $4.96 (20%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $8.14 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Murray A. SperberEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-07-23
ISBN: 0253215684
Number of pages: 664
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Book Reviews of Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football
Book Review: The definitive history of Knute Rockne's impact on college football
Summary: 4 Stars
To most Americans, the idyllic, idealistic era of college football in the early 20th century was summed up by Pat O'Brien as Knute Rockne and Ronald Reagan as George Gipp in the film "Knute Rockne All-American." Sperber's meticulously-detailed and well-researched book debunks many of the popular myths about Rockne that grew from the film while chronicling the growth of college football into a big-time endeavor that is sometimes only tenuously connected to collegiate education.
While the author does not explicitly connect the sport of the 1920s with the sport of today, the cliche about history repeating itself comes to mind again and again when reading this book. College football in the days of Knute Rockne, similar to college football in the present days of the BCS, was filled with highly-paid coaches threatening to leave their team for more lucrative pastures, questionable recruiting tactics, players who spent more time in pool halls than in the classroom, allegations over weak "cupcake" scheduling, huge payouts by boosters for matchups in Soldier Field or Yankee Stadium and other headlines that still appear in modern sports pages.
Notre Dame fans would enjoy an objective, unique story about the most famous program in collegiate athletics, while sports fans in general should also enjoy this revealing picture of how college football was transformed into the multi million dollar behemoth it is today.
Health, Mind & Body Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Writers I've known
Tell Me A Story About The Devil: Selected Journals, 1997?1999by Jon Konrath
IUniverse; Published: 2003-01-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops:
Dealer Winsby Jon Konrath
Lulu.com; Published: 2004-10-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.19
Price in other shops:
Summer Rainby Jon Konrath
Writers Club Press; Published: 2000-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.97
Price in other shops:
Rumored to Existby Jon Konrath
IUniverse; Published: 2002-06-24; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.95
Price in other shops:
Short Streetby Timothy Gager
Zumaya Publications, LLC; Published: 2004-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.98
Price in other shops:
Carrie Pilby (Red Dress Ink Novels)by Caren Lissner
Red Dress Ink; Published: 2003-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.04
Price in other shops:
Starting From Square Two (Red Dress Ink)by Caren Lissner
Red Dress Ink; Published: 2004-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.99
Price in other shops:
Onward to Victory: The Creation of Modern College Sportsby Murray Sperber
Henry Holt and Co.; Published: 1998-11-30; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Footballby Murray A. Sperber
Indiana University Press; Published: 2002-07-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $21.44
Price in other shops:
Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Educationby Murray Sperber
Holt Paperbacks; Published: 2001-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.00
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
Echoes of Glory: The History of Notre Dame FootballTeam Marketing; Release date: 2006-09-05; DVD
Best price: $9.68
Price in other shops:
King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Heroby David Remnick
Vintage; Published: 1999-10-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.98
Price in other shops:
100 Things Notre Dame Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things Football Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die)by John Heisler
Triumph Books (IL); Published: 2009-08; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.02
Price in other shops:
Touchdown Jesusby Scott Eden
Simon & Schuster; Published: 2008-04-17; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.98
Price in other shops:
Knute Rockne All AmericanTeam Marketing; Release date: 2006-08-15; DVD
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops:
Notre Dame and the Game that Changed Football: How Jesse Harper Made the Forward Pass a Weapon and Knute Rockne a Legendby Frank P. Maggio
Da Capo Press; Published: 2007-07-31; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $1.42
Price in other shops:
Leahy's Lads: The Story of the Famous Notre Dame Football Teams of the 1940sby Jack Connor
Diamond Communications; Published: 1997-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $129.95
Rockne of Notre Dame: The Making of a Football Legendby Ray Robinson
Oxford University Press, USA; Published: 2002-11-21; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.85
Price in other shops:
Loyal Sons: The Story of the Four Horsemen and Notre Dame Football's 1924 Championsby Jim Lefebvre
Great Day Press; Published: 2008-09-04; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $15.96
Price in other shops:
Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Educationby Murray Sperber
Holt Paperbacks; Published: 2001-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.79
Price in other shops: