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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 major factor in the history of football. It is all about Americas ability to love the team but also to hate it. Sperber went to the University of Notre Dame to conduct all of his research. He was warned that he would not be welcomed at the school, but when he arrived he saw the truth to be the exact opposite. They allowed him to dig deep into the history of the game and how he Fighting Irish fit into that game. He bases most of his writing on papers that have been held in the library written on the ups and downs of the many years of football and Notre Dame. The game of football became a major outlet for Catholic pride, but with this was brought much American scorn. In this book the author tell
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Fighting Irish, Notre Dame, Company York, notre dame, fighting irish, Kunte Rockne, team fighting irish, notre dame football, team fighting, dame football,
Approximate Word count = 741
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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