Notre Dame and the Game that Changed Football
Subtitle: How Jesse Harper Made the Forward Pass a Weapon and Knute Rockne a Legend
Contributors: Jim Harper (Foreword); Joe Doyle (Afterword); Keith Jackson (Introduction)
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: July 11, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786720149
Subjects: American football; Football; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Football - General; Sports & Recreation / Football; 1883-1961; 1888-1931; Biography; Football coaches; Harper, Jesse C.,; Rockne, Knute,; United States
Description: "This is the story of the development of the forward pass, and of Jesse Harper and his tremendous impact on the game we know today. Drawing from years of original research, including never-before-seen correspondence between Jesse Harper and Knute Rockne, Frank P. Maggio brings these events 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."--BOOK JACKET.