Notre Dame Football History
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Notre Dame Football: When Will National Championship Drought End
The last time Notre Dame won a national championship was back in 1988 over the West Virginia Mountaineers. Many thought it would be the first of many titles under Lou…
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Notre Dame Football Retrospective: Why Bob Davie Failed as Head Coach
This is a continuation in an ongoing series where I look at where things have gone wrong since 1993 and how we got to where the program is today. A…
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Notre Dame Football Releases Top 10 TE Catches in Program History
Notre Dame has been releasing some absolutely great content over the last few weeks as most of the nation is stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday they put…
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Revisiting Notre Dame vs USC 1992 And Dreams Coming True
A simple game from the past for some, but monumental for me. On November 21st, 1992, the Flammang family headed to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to watch their first…
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Notre Dame Football: Revisiting The Game Of The Century
So, sports are gone, you might have heard. The coronavirus pandemic has shut down the sports world, which of course, includes Notre Dame’s spring football (I’ll never curse it again).…
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A Look Back at Notre Dame’s Cotton Bowl History
The 13th game on the Notre Dame football schedule has the Irish penciled in to face the Clemson Tigers at the annual Cotton Bowl on December 29. While the contest…
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The Notre Dame – Stanford Football Rivalry
The Notre Dame Stanford series had an enchanted beginning. Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Committee had been itching to get Rockne and Notre Dame to play in the Rose Bowl and they…
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Notre Dame Football ESPN Gameday History
Notre Dame has been in contests in front of the Gameday crew 28 times since the show first aired on the site of game – Florida State’s visit to South…
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Ara Parseghian: Tribute To A Notre Dame Football Legend
Ara’s Birth and Early Years Ara was born in Akron in 1923 to an Armenian Father and a French mother, both immigrants. He was an intense kid, a fine student,…
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#1 George Gipp: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
George Gipp, HB, QB, P, DB, KR PR, 1917-1920 Unique – adj. being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else. It is an absolute, binary term. Something is either…
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#2 Johnny Lujack: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#2 Johnny Lujack, QB/DB 1942-1943, 1946-1947 Connelsville’s All-American Boy Johnny Lujack was born in Connellsville on January 3, 1925. He was born under a good sign as that was just…
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#3 Leon Hart: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#3 Leon Hart, TE/DE 1946-1949 Leon Hart was the strapping son of a Westinghouse Crane operator who lived in Pittsburgh’s Southeast suburb of Turtle Creek. He was one of Notre…
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#4 The Four Horsemen: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#4 -Four Horsemen, Backs. 1921-1924 Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Elmer Layden, Sleepy Jim Crowley The Four Horsemen are a single entity. As a Catholic University, Notre Dame and its true…
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#5 Angelo Bertelli: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#5 Angelo Bertelli, QB, 1940-1943 Angello Bertelli was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA to Italian immigrant parents. A generation later, also in Springfield, Nick Buoniconti, #21 on our list of…
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#6 Ross Browner: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#6 Ross Browner, DE, 1973, 1975-1977 Ross Browner was a high school phenom at Western Reserve High School in talent-rich Warren, Ohio. ROSS BROWNER’S PROPHET-GREG BLACHE There were two great…
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