From The Coach’s Bookshelf Jim Lefebvre’s ‘Loyal Sons

The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame may be the most famous backfield in college football history. But, incredibly, until recently their story had never been explored in book-length form. Author and football historian Jim Lefebvre tells it in great detail in Loyal Sons: The Story of The Four Horsemen and Notre Dame Football’s 1924 Champions. The national award-winning book gives us insight into the coaching greatness of Knute Rockne as he guides his Irish to an undefeated season, Rose Bowl victory and Notre Dame’s first national championship.

Ever since his days as an immigrant lad in Chicago, Rockne had been enamored with the game of football, this testing of wits and warriors. What other competition, Rockne figured, offers such a chance to test oneself, to prove one’s manhood, to work with like-minded fellows for a common g....The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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