Notre Dame Football History
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History Through the Headsets: Inside Notre Dame’s Playoff Run During the Craziest Season in College Football History
This excerpt from History Through the Headsets: Inside Notre Dame’s Playoff Run During the Craziest Season in College Football History by John Mahoney and Reed Gregory is reprinted with the…
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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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Top 10 Greatest Rivalries in Notre Dame Football History
Notre Dame Football is one of the most historic college football programs in the country. The program’s historic achievements and independence have led to great rivalry matchups. From the west…
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Notre Dame Football Retrospective: The Fall Of Lou Holtz
The Lou Holtz era brought more than just a national championship in 1988. It also brought a period of dominance. From 1988 to 1993, his Fighting Irish football program went…
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Derrick Mayes: Notre Dame Football’s Most Underrated Receiver?
As is likely the case for sports fans all over the country, I’ve been dealing with my time away from work and sports by watching games and clips from earlier…
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Notre Dame Social Distancing: Running Diary Of Notre Dame vs Texas 1996
I’ve been kicking around something like this for a little while and since I’ve been taking a stroll back down memory lane this week, I figured I’d give it a…
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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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Notre Dame Football’s Top 10 Plays Of The Past Decade
It’s the top 10 plays of the decade. Pretty self-explanatory. I tried to stay away from good plays in games that hurt my feelings, so, for example, Dayne Crist to…
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The Top 10 Notre Dame Football Games of the 2010s: The Top 5
Yesterday we started our countdown of the top 10 games of the decade for Notre Dame, and it quickly became apparent that two parts would be needed because I started…
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The Top 10 Notre Dame Football Games of the 2010s: Part 1
We might be a little late to the party with some of the “best of the decade” content, but with a little free time today, I decided to try and…
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Finally! Notre Dame Legend Rocket Ismail Named to Hall of Fame
On Monday, the College Football Hall of Fame did something that was long, long overdue. They named Raghib “The Rocket” Ismail to the class of 2019 College Football Hall of…
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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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Notre Dame Football: Top 10 Players Of The Last 30 Years
Recently, Athlon Sports put out a Top 50 players of the last 50 years list and Notre Dame was shut out. I’m not going to spend a ton of time…
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Top 10 Notre Dame Football Players of the Brian Kelly Era
This top ten countdown is based on the players who were the most valuable and talented to come out of Notre Dame during the Brian Kelly era. 10. DeShone Kizer…
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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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