Shake Down the Thunder

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: 1918-1919 14. 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