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The years of dawn-to-dusk skating paid immediate dividends and Benning was named the Notre Dame hockey team's Rockie of the Year.
"It was a real shock to us all," Benning says. "We really couldn't believe it."
"I was always small," Benning recalls. "I didn't have as much potential."
The first hockey sweater that Benning wore wasn't Harvard's crimson and white, it was the green and gold of the Notre Dame.
Although he had been recruited by several Ivy schools, unable to afford the high tuition and ignorant of the educational opportunities available in the East, Benning accepted a full scholarship from the Fighting Irish and headed to South Bend.