For over seventy five years two schools have carried on the greatest intersectional rivalry in college football. National championships have been determined by the outcome. Heisman Trophies have been won with a brilliant performance before a sold out crowd on a late autumn afternoon. Notre Dame and USC have been fighting it out since 1926, when Knute Rockne of Notre Dame and Howard Jones of USC led their teams in the first game played in the Los Angeles Coliseum. But the story doesn't start there. It all began five years earlier, when the two coaches faced off for the first time while Coach Jones was still at Iowa.

Rockne & Jones chronicles the golden era of college football, from that first game in

  1921 to the death of the legendary coach of the Fighting Irish in 1931 and the subsequent game that was hailed as "The Greatest College Football Game Ever Played" at the time, and was still ranked in the top fifty of all games college or pro by NFL coach George Allen in 1983. It paints a portrait of the times, of the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, of the Hollywood glamour of Los Angeles and the tough heartland of South Bend. Both sides are treated with honor and respect, so that no matter which side you root for there is something here for you. More than just football, it is a tale of friendship and competition, of victory and tragedy and the ultimate triumph of the spirit of two men that still lives today.