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In May of 1931, Knute Rockne, Notre Dame’s legendary football coach, died in a fiery plane crash over a Kansas wheat field. From that day until February 10, 1977, when we opened a musty trunk and got rid of a worn leather brief case, no person had seen the personal notes of the man considered the greatest football coach in history. We asked for Rockne’s papers, and were given a treasure of insights into the Man who assisted in shaping the Game.

We didn’t stop there. We kept asking. We asked old footballers for their most memorable stories for the funniest thing that ever happened to them. Probably the most unforgettable people they ever played with (or against). The result is Out of Bounds-An Anecdotal History of Notre Dame Football.

Here are good stories that have never been published: A Penn State coach who tried to slip a Mickey Finn to all of the Fighting Irish team; a Notre Dame player who credits his football experience with helping him to live to tell the tale World War II’s Bataan Death March; an All-American quarterback who falls to fifth string at Notre Dame; running backs who sprain their ankles in bed; and managers who dislocate their shoulders giving a rubdown.

As well as, we’ve a fine choice of rare photographs-many of which have never been published.

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