"Rockne of Ages" signed by Author Jeffrey G. Harrell, hardcover
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Purchase your signed copy of "Rockne of Ages" direct from the author for $49.95
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Purchase your signed copy of "Rockne of Ages" direct from the author for $49.95
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“BOMB KILLED ROCKNE, PUT IN PLANE BY GANG” screamed the front-page headline of the South Bend News Times on January 7, 1933. Since that day nearly a century ago, the sordid details behind Al Capone’s retaliation against a Notre Dame priest - who gave his plane ticket to Knute Rockne one day after testifying against a Capone henchman charged with murdering Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle - have been lost in the wind.
“Rockne of Ages” pumps new life into the death of Knute Rockne. “Rockne on Rockne” - the middle section of this thoroughly-sourced investigative epic – resurrects Knute Rockne talking about his own life in his own words. The greatest football visionary in American history helped lay the foundation for the most popular game in today’s world and, literally, shaped the ball before his life was tragically cut short in a plane crash near Bazaar, Kansas on March 31, 1931, at the age of 43.
Rockne, early Notre Dame football history, Father John Reynolds and Chicago’s gangland of the ‘20s all come alive in a stunning fill of rare, historical black-and-white photographs.
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