Word: dame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Notre Dame went to Texas last week expecting to wind up a perfect season in a blaze of touchdowns. Instead, in Dallas' Cotton Bowl, it was all but charged off its All-America feet by a fiery, accurate Southern Methodist team, minus its injured star Doak Walker but brilliantly led by Halfback Kyle Rote, that fought as if it were defending the Alamo...
...clearly outplayed the mighty Irish and boyish, narrow-eyed Kyle Rote ran his day's performance to spectacular totals: he gained 115 yards through the line and around the ends, pitched ten passes for 146 yards, scored three touchdowns. After his third score it took all of Notre Dame's All-America power to grind out one more Irish touchdown and go ahead, 27-20. Even then, in the last minutes of the game, Coach Matty Bell's men began to roll downfield again in a 67-yd. drive that was halted only on the Irish...
...Notre Dame (which is on the Annapolis schedule), another sign blazoned: "When do you drop Navy?" From the Army side came the answering banner: "Today!" Then, in one of its most powerful exhibitions of the year, Army gave Navy its worst drubbing in their 50-game series...
...South Bend, where Notre Dame's legendary Four Horsemen celebrated their 25th anniversary reunion, there was speculation about whether the 1949 Notre Dame's team was the best in the school's 62-year football history. "Let's say it's one of the greatest," said Horseman Elmer Layden, onetime fullback. But the 1949 entry made a good case for itself by crushing Southern California, 32-0, and stretching Notre Dame's unbeaten string to 37 games over four seasons...
Perhaps I am spoiled as I have seen West Point play three games this year and Notre Dame once, and expect to see the Army-Navy game tomorrow--which I know will be fight and a good game, offensively and defensively...