by Leprechaun Express & Steve Welsh
So how difficult can it be, for Notre Dame to play in a far-flung western time zone, when forced to play past 2 a.m. Eastern Time? Lou Holtz had Notre Dame going to major bowls on an annual basis, competing regularly for national championships and winning one consensus national title. In 1991, even before the regular season was over, they
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The All-Veteran Group Parachute Team kicked off ‘Notre Dame’ Football’s night with a sky-high entrance before their game with Navy in primetime.
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In “Resurrection: The Miracle Season That Saved Notre Dame” by Jim Dent, we are taken back to Hall of Fame Coach Ara Parseghian‘s first team meeting as Notre Dame head football coach, in a Golden Dome auditorium: “… You know what it takes to win. Just look at my fist. When I make a fist, it’s strong and you can’t
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“Award-winning sportswriter Ivan Maisel brings the … legend of #NotreDame head #football coach #FrankLeahy back to life, based on rare and complete access to #FightingIrish football historical archives and the Leahy family. When Frank Leahy retired from Notre Dame after the 1953 season, he had the second‑best record in the history of the game (107‑13‑9, .864), second only to #KnuteRockne,
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Notre Dame’s first New Year’s Day football game was not the 1925 Rose Bowl, when Knute Rockne, the Four Horsemen and the Seven Mules beat Stanford to cap off a 1924 National Championship season. According to the Notre Dame Football Media Guide’s game-by-game history, Notre Dame’s first New Year’s Day game was on January 1st, 1894, in a regular season
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