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Rockne and Jones - Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties (Paperback)
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Rockne and Jones - Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties (Paperback)
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Notre Dame's rallying cry was once "Win one for the Gipper." The
football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has
long since faded into history, but every year the Irish continue to
face another storied rival to test their mettle. The annual
tradition of Notre Dame versus USC lives on. Rockne and Jones tells
the story of how the battle with the Trojans began at the height of
the turbulent years after WWI that changed the world forever. The
Roaring Twenties are remembered as a bygone era of mobsters,
flappers, speakeasies, and romantic silent movie stars. It was also
the golden age of sports, when stars like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey,
and a horse named Man o' War dominated the headlines. Football fans
went crazy for the college game at a time when the NFL was in its
infancy. No star shined brighter in those days than Knute Rockne,
the legendary coach at Notre Dame. Every great champion needs a
foil, and Rockne's was a coach named Howard Harding Jones. USC's
Jones was Rockne's opposite in every way. Jones was quiet where
Rockne was glib and outspoken, private where Rockne was a man about
town, but the two men shared a passion for football that led them
on a collision course. The result was the greatest football rivalry
of the age-Notre Dame versus USC. The lives of these two coaches,
their triumphs and tragedies, and the whole story of how the Irish
and the Trojans came to be the greatest intersectional foes in all
of college football is retold in exhaustive detail for the first
time. The story sprawls from the fjords of Norway to the playing
fields of America, from clashes with the Ku Klux Klan on the
streets of South Bend and the gang wars of Chicago to the glamour
of Hollywood. Those wild days of Rockne's Ramblers and Jones's
Thundering Herd live again on the pages of Rockne and Jones.
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