Notre Dame and the Game that Changed Football: How Jesse Harper Made the Forward Pass a Weapon and Knute Rockne a Legend - Couverture rigide

Maggio, Frank P.

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ISBN 10 : 078672014X ISBN 13 : 9780786720149

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2007

Synopsis

Between 1880 and 1905, more than 325 deaths were reported in college football, and several major football schools, including Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, and Penn, threatened to drop the sport. President Theodore Roosevelt even called a White House conference to eliminate football's violence. One result was the development of the forward pass, which reduced the frequency of dangerous collisions between helmetless players. Enter Jesse Harper, head football coach at Notre Dame. Harper recognized the potential of the forward pass, and, by the summer of 1913, along with star players Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais, had perfected an efficient, overhand throwing motion. With this new offensive weapon, the Fighting Irish marched into West Point that fall to face the Eastern powerhouse Army, and routed the Black Knights 35–13. This victory not only changed the way football would be played, it also established Notre Dame as a football power. This is the story of Jesse Harper and his tremendous impact on the game we know today. Drawing from years of original research, Frank P. Maggio brings the classic victory to life and recounts Jesse Harper's role in Notre Dame's evolution into college football's most successful and storied program, and an elite university.

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À propos de l'auteur

Frank P. Maggio, a lifelong Notre Dame football fan, is an attorney with an active commercial law practice in northern Illinois. He graduated from Regis College in Denver, Colorado, in 1960 with a B.A. in Philosophy and from the University of Notre Dame School of Law with a J.D. in 1963. He has practiced law in South Bend, Indiana, and with the legal department of the Dupont chemical company in Wilmington, Delaware, and returned in 1968 to his hometown of Rockford, Illinois, where he still lives. Maggio is the father of 4 and the grandfather of 6. He has known and worked with Jim Harper, the son of Jesse Harper, since 1985.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 078672014X
• ISBN 13: 9780786720149
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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