The Gipper

The Gipper
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 329
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781628731125
ISBN-13 : 1628731125
Rating : 4/5 (125 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Gipper by : Jack Cavanaugh

Download or read book The Gipper written by Jack Cavanaugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Win one for The Gipper. Has there ever been a better-known and widely-used exhortative phrase in sports? Not likely. But who was the “Gipper,” this mythical-like sports figure whose nickname has aroused, in turn, awe, wonderment, curiosity, and amusement since the second decade of the twentieth century, and why is his story important? Answering those questions is the formidable task taken on here by veteran sportswriter Jack Cavanaugh, whose Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography of boxing legend Gene Tunney was referred to as “impressively researched and richly detailed” by Sports Illustrated. More than eight decades after his death, George Gipp is still regarded by football historians as Notre Dame’s best all-around player. And it was Gipp and his legendary coach, Knute Rockne, who were largely responsible for putting the small Midwestern all-male school on the map. Like Cavanaugh’s other critically acclaimed books, The Gipper is also a period piece, with a considerable focus on the era before, during, and immediately after WWI. It details the changes that the country underwent during that time, including the onset of Prohibition and the gangs that it spawned in the Midwest such as those active in the South Bend area and in nearby Chicago, headed by the notorious Al Capone.


The Gipper Related Books

The Gipper
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Jack Cavanaugh
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-10 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

Win one for The Gipper. Has there ever been a better-known and widely-used exhortative phrase in sports? Not likely. But who was the “Gipper,” this mythical
Win One for the Gipper
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Kathy-jo Wargin
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: True Story

GET EBOOK

Relates the story of George Gipp, a young athlete from northern Michigan in the early 1900s who became a star football player at the University of Notre Dame be
Tip and the Gipper
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Chris Matthews
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-07 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

This book relates a personal history of a time when two great political opponents served together for the benefit of the country. The author was a top aide to S
One for the Gipper
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Partick Chelland
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-06 - Publisher: Arrowhead Classics Limited

GET EBOOK

Rockne of Notre Dame
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Ray Robinson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-09-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

In a mere twelve years, Rockne's "Fighting Irish" won 105 games, including five astonishing undefeated seasons. But Rockne was more than the sum of his victorie