The book is written for those of us who love Notre Dame Football and all the outstanding players we have watched perform over the years. Since we cover ND football from the first game in 1887, there surely are some great players highlighted in this book which none of us know. The book first tells the story about how college football began and then on to the first American football game in 1867. From there, the progression leads, to Notre Dame's first football team and its first game in 1887, then to the first Notre Dame team with a coach in 1894. Moving through the years we cover the team of players who served the great immortal Notre Dame coaches-- Rockne, Leahy, Parseghian, Devine, and Holtz, to the current season with Coach Brian Kelly. The emphasis within this book is the players and we take time our regularly to report on great games in which those great players excelled. You're going to love it. It will be like football season is year-round. This book captures the great players in Notre Dame Football. It takes the reader through introductions for Notre Dame's 31 coaches but concentrates on the great players who played like champions today and in days gone by. There are great stories in here about 128 years' worth of great games (1234 games). The book often stops in time and talks about a particular super player such as Johnny Lujack, Paul Hornung, Angelo Bertelli, Gus Dorais, Golden Tate, Knute Rockne, Tony Rice, Jerome Bettis, Vegas Ferguson, Tom Clements, Tommy Rees, George Connor, Nick Buoniconti, & Terry Brennan. You will not be able to put this book down

Author Biography

Brian Kelly retired as an Assistant Professor in the Business Information Technology (BIT) Program at Marywood University, where he also served as the IBM i and Midrange Systems Technical Advisor to the IT Faculty. He is one of the leading authors in America with this, his 105th published book. Brian is an outspoken and eloquent expert on a variety of topics and he has also written several hundred articles on topics of general interest to most Americans. Most of his early works involved high technology. Later, Brian wrote a number of patriotic books and most recently he has been writing human interest books such as The Wine Diet and Thank you, IBM. His books are always well received. Brian's 105 books are all highlighted at www.letsgopublish.com. They are for sale at www.bookhawkers.com, Amazon, Kindle, Barnes & Noble & other fine booksellers. One day perhaps, even the famous Notre Dame Book Store will agree to host this book. Brian was a candidate for the US Congress from Pennsylvania in 2010 and he ran for Mayor in his home town in 2015. He loves Notre Dame and was an Irish fan long before some other guy with the same name happened to come to South Bend, Indiana.