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1992

Arete, Sport and Society, American Sport History, Football, Basketball, Coaches, Motivation

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Motivating Athletes: Tampons At Catholic University And Bull Castration At Mississippi St., Richard C. Crepeau Sep 1992

Motivating Athletes: Tampons At Catholic University And Bull Castration At Mississippi St., Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Probably the most famous halftime speech ever given was the Knute Rockne, "Win One for the Gipper" classic, which many of us have seen delivered by Pat O'Brien in "The Knute Rockne Story." It is remembered as well because the Gipper was played by the somnambulant President of the United States who incessantly evoked its memory for whatever feeble cause he was pushing. As motivational speeches go this one has no peer.