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George Gipp, Knute Rockne, and the Dramatic Rise of Notre Dame Football
Skyhorse Publishing
September 2010
On Sale: September 10, 2010
304 pages ISBN: 1616081104 EAN: 9781616081102 Hardcover
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The incredible story of how a small Indiana
Catholic school emerged as a college football
powerhouse. Win one for The Gipper. Has
there ever been a better-known and widely-used exhortative
phrase in sports? Not likely. But who was the “Gipper,”
this mythical-like sports figure whose nickname has aroused,
in turn, awe, wonderment, curiosity, and amusement since the
second decade of the twentieth century, and why is his
story important? Answering those questions is the formidable
task taken on here by veteran sportswriter Jack Cavanaugh,
whose Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography of boxing legend
Gene Tunney was referred to as “impressively researched and
richly detailed” by Sports Illustrated.
More than eight decades after his death, George Gipp is
still regarded by football historians as Notre Dame’s best
all-around player. And it was Gipp and his legendary coach,
Knute Rockne, who were largely responsible for putting the
small Midwestern all-male school on the map.
Like Cavanaugh’s other critically acclaimed books, The
Gipper is also a period piece, with a considerable
focus on the era before, during, and immediately after WWI.
It details the changes that the country underwent during
that time, including the onset of Prohibition and the gangs
that it spawned in the Midwest such as those active in the
South Bend area and in nearby Chicago, headed by the
notorious Al Capone. 25 black-and-white photographs
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