Sperber, Murray, Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. Henry Holt and Company. New York, 1993, pp634. This book is excellent. The author not only cheers the team on but also shows that the Fighting Irish can be a team that many want to lose. He is very partisan in the fact that he wishes for the reader to get the whole story of the creation of a team that would be a …showed first 75 words of 715 total…

…showed last 75 words of 715 total…sport that no one had every heard of. To have a legend like Rockne emerge from such a new sport is just amazing to me. He changed the face of football with blood sweat and tears, and is often spoke of like a saint, but as I have learned everything he did was not always ethical. He broke the rules, but at the same time made a team that we all watch to this day.