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Notre Dame Football All-Time Coaches
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,…
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Top 25 Players
#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…
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#2 Johnny Lujack: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
Johnny Lujack was born in Connellsville on January 3, 1925. He was born under a good sign as that was…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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#7 Johnny Lattner: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#7 Johnny Lattner, HB/DB 1950-1953 As Frank Leahy was looking to replenish the glistening treasure of the ’46 recruiting class…
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#8 Tim Brown: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#8 Tim Brown, WR/RB/KR/PR, 1984-1987 Tim Brown may have been unique in that he might have been influenced by Notre…
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#9 Paul Hornung: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#9 Paul Hornung, QB 1953-1956 Paul Hornung was a legendary schoolboy athlete at Flaget High in Louisville. Hornung eventually became…
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#11 Luther Bradley: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
Luther Bradley was recruited from Muncie to join the Irish in 1973. Muncie had not been known for football players;…
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#12 Jim Lynch: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#12 Jim Lynch, Linebacker, 1964-1966 Jim Lynch was recruited from Lima Central Catholic as part of the ever loyal Hugh…
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#13 Alan Page: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#13 Alan Page, Defensive End, 1964-1966 Alan Page was a High School All-America at Canton Central Catholic when he was…
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#14 Frank Carideo: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#14 Frank Carideo, quarterback 1928-1930 A native of Mount Vernon, New York; Frank Carideo was compact at 5’7” 175 pounds.…
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#15 Creighton Miller: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#15 Creighton Miller, Halfback 1941-1943 Creighton Miller was the nephew of Don Miller, one of the Four Horsemen, and perhaps…
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#16 Jaylon Smith: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#16 Jaylon Smith, Linebacker, 2013-2015 Notre Dame’s most athletic linebacker of all time also ranks, along with Luther Bradley, as…
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#17 Raghib “Rocket” Ismail: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#17 Raghib “Rocket” Ismail, WR/KR/PR/RB 1988-1990 Notre Dame’s most explosive player ever was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, but was…
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#18 Tom Clements: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#18 Tom Clements, Quarterback, 1972-1974 Born in McKees Rocks, Tom Clements was a multi-sport athlete at Canevin High School in…
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#19 Chris Zorich: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#19 Chris Zorich, Nose Tackle, 1988-1990 More Notre Dame fans have driven past Chris Zorich’s High School than that of…
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#20 Aaron Taylor: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
#20 Aaron Taylor, Tackle , 1990-1993 Aaron Taylor was born in San Francisco, but his parents sent him to play…
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#21 Nick Buoniconti: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
Nick Buoniconti grew up as the son of immigrant Italian bakers in Springfield, MA. As a Catholic he attended Cathedral…
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#22 Ken Macafee: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
The seeds of Notre Dame becoming “Tight End University” were planted by Leon Hart in 1946 and then watered and…
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#23 Bill “Moose” Fischer: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
Bill Fischer made the short trek from Chicago and played for Hugh Devore’s ’45 team while Leahy and Lujack were…
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#24 Todd Lyght: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
Todd Lyght arrived in 1987, ready to be groomed as the heir apparent to Tim Brown. But his coaches had…
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#25 Red Salmon: Notre Dame Football’s Top 25 Players
Excellence creates unconventional challenges. Mere mortals struggle to comprehend and describe greatness The rich glorious history of Notre Dame Football…
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Defense
Is Notre Dame moving to a 4-2-5 defense?
COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S BRUTAL ORIGINS When Rutgers “lit up” Princeton 6-4 in 1869 in the first football game ever played, the…
