可借阅:*
图书馆 | 资料类型 | 排架号 | 子计数 | 书架位置 | 状态 | 图书预约 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
正在检索... South | Book | 796.332 SPERBER | 1 | Non-fiction Collection | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
正在检索... South | Book | 796.332 S | 1 | Non-fiction Collection | 正在检索... 未知 | 正在检索... 不可借阅 |
链接这些题名
已订购
摘要
摘要
"Sperber...tackles the details, great and small, unearthing atreasure." -- New York Times Book Review Shake Down theThunder traces the history of the Notre Dame football program -- which has acquiredalmost mythical proportions -- from its humble origins in the 19th century to itsstatus as the paragon of college sports. It presents the true story of the program'sformative years, the reality behind the myths. Both social history and sportshistory, this book documents as never before the first half-century of Notre Damefootball and relates it to the rise of big-time intercollegiate athletics, thecollege sports reform movement, and the corrupt sporting press of the period. ShakeDown the Thunder is must reading for all Fighting Irish fans, their detractors, andany reader engaged by American cultural history.
评论 (3)
Kirkus评论
Sperber (English and American Studies/Indiana University; College Sports Inc., 1990) does in this exceptional, exhaustive history of Notre Dame football what he does best: dash myths and penetrate to systemic corruption and hypocrisy, all the while maintaining an implicit love for collegiate athletics. Using a cache of previously unexamined correspondence and athletic department files dated 1909-34, Sperber starts with the school's origins in the 1840's and continues through 1941. He attributes Notre Dame's football success in part to the independence it gained through its repeated rejection by the Western Conference and by the school's ``unique culture of athleticism.'' Included are fascinating anecdotes about the scheduling and playing of the great Michigan and Army games (the latter of which, contrary to legend, came about because the cadets had become ``pariahs'' by flouting standard eligibility rules); the ``Fighting Irish'' nickname, the fight song, the cheers, and the mascot; the making of the film ``Knute Rockne--All-American''; the Catholic school's battles with the KKK and other ``anti-papists''; and the corruption of journalists, officials, and coaches like ``Pop'' Warner, who frequently pocketed gate receipts. Sperber addresses what he calls Notre Dame's ``historic dilemma...the tension between its athletic prominence and its academic aspiration.'' Most telling is his look at the Knute Rockne myth. Sperber finds Rockne to be a man so concerned with ``the decline of American masculinity'' that he had no qualms about publicly humiliating those he saw as less than ``he-men.'' As the record and the testimony show, Rockne wasn't universally mourned when he died in that 1931 plane crash. His greatness as a coach, however, and as a football innovator, are given their just due here, though also placed in a realistic historical perspective. Quite an achievement: a monumental work of scholarship in both sports and social history. (Eight pages of photographs--not seen).
《书目》(Booklist)书评
The Notre Dame football program has long been the flagship of major-college athletics. Its squeaky-clean image, however, has been tarnishing quickly of late, thanks mostly to Yeager and Looney's controversial expose, Under the Golden Dome (see "The Manley Arts," BKL O 1 93). Current Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz takes a pounding in that book; here it's the legendary Knute Rockne, of "Win one for the Gipper" fame, who comes under the microscope. Sperber, author of College Sports, Inc. (1990), parlayed access to extensive, previously unexamined Notre Dame sports archives into an incisive portrait of Rockne and the mostly fictional legend that has grown around him. Rockne was not a saint; nor was he a devil. He was a wildly successful coach in the 1920s who virtually created the image of Notre Dame football. He was also self-promoting, ambitious, manipulative, and always willing to circumvent the rules. There was no NCAA to police college sports then, but the Carnegie Foundation--which kept an eye on sports but had no enforcement status--continually reported transgressions at the Golden Dome regarding recruiting, payments to athletes, and class attendance. Sperber reports a self-perpetuating cycle; as Rockne's reputation grew, the administration's ability to control him shrank. Sperber also provides a context for Rockne's years with profiles of the program both before and after his regime. This is an extraordinarily researched cultural history that provides a basis on which readers can build a deeper understanding of the current sad state of collegiate sports in general and Notre Dame football, at least as Yeager and Looney tell it, in particular. ~--Wes Lukowsky
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Sperber (English, Indiana Univ.) chronicles Notre Dame and its football dynasty, from the institution's early days as a small school founded by French priests to the hiring of coach Frank Leahy in 1941. He covers not only the university's football program but the anti-Catholicism and the academic/athletic issues of the period. For the most part, however, he focuses on one man and his tremendous influence upon American sports: Knute Rockne. Sperber skillfully compiled this work by poring through previously uncataloged archival papers, which included Rockne's personal correspondence. Other vibrant personalities, such as Father John O'Hara and Grantland Rice, are also examined, as are the discrepancies between reality and myth in such campus legends as the ``win one for the Gipper'' speech and the Notre Dame victory march. This volume is destined to become a sports classic. For most collections.-- Albert Spencer, Coll. of Education, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
| Preface to the Indiana Edition |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| I "What Though the Odds Be Great or Small": 1789-1918 |
| 1 L'Universite de Notre Dame du Lac and the Nineteenth Century |
| 2 The Origins of Notre Dame's Athletic Culture |
| 3 Catholic versus American Higher Education |
| 4 The Origin of "The Notre Dame Victory March" |
| 5 Notre Dame Sports: 1900-1912 |
| 6 Jesse Harper: 1913 and the First Army Game |
| 7 Jesse Harper: 1914 and the Finances of College Football |
| 8 Jesse Harper: 1915-1917 and the Job of Athletic Director |
| 9 Jesse Harper's Assistant: Knute Rockne |
| II Shaking Down the Thunder: 1918-1931 |
| 10 Catholic versus American Higher Education in the 1920s |
| 11 The Growth of the Athletic Culture |
| 12 The Origin of the Fighting Irish Nickname |
| 13 Rockne at Ground Zero: 1918-191914. Rockne's Rocket-First Version: 1920 |
| 15 George Gipp's Five Seasons at Notre Dame |
| 16 The Rocker Crashes-Rockne's Miraculous Escape: 1921 |
| 17 Building a Better Rocket: 1922 |
| 18 On the Launch Pad: 1923 |
| 19 Notre Dame versus Klandiana: 1924 |
| 20 Blast-off: 1924 |
| 21 The Four Horsemen-Grantland Rice versus Reality |
| 22 Rockne Threatens to Jump Ship: 1925 |
| 23 Anti-aircraft Fire from the Big Ten: 1926 |
| 24 Knute K. Rockne Inc. |
| 25 Anti-aircraft Fire from College Sports Reformers: 1927 |
| 26 Al Smith and "Win One for the Gipper": 1928 |
| 27 Rockne Attacks the College Sports Reformers: 1929 |
| 28 Rockne's Last and Greatest Rocket: 1930 |
| 29 The Death of Reform and Rockne: 1931 |
| III "Rally Sons of Notre Dame": 1932-1941 |
| 30 In the Depression: 1931-1941 |
| 31 After Rockne |
| 32 The Demand for Perfection: 1932 |
| 33 The Removal of a Vice President and the First Firing of a Notre Dame Head Coach: 1933 |
| 34 O'Hara and Layden Assume Power: 1934-1936 |
| 35 O'Hara and Layden in Power: 1937-1939 |
| 36 Beginning Knute Rockne-All American: 1939 |
| 37 Filming Knute Rockne-All American: 1940 |
| 38 The End of the Rockne Era: 1940 |
| 39 The End of the Creation of Notre Dame Football: 1941 |
| Epilogue |
| Notes |
| Bibliography |
| Index |