Word: dame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the large colleges, those to whom television was already a financial blessing, smouldered, but smiled and went along. Penn, however, had already decided that it would rather play Notre Dame than Yale or Princeton, that television and free enterprise were wonderful things--that, in short, rich or poor, it's always better to have money...
Whether or not there had been any previous agreement between Murray and Frank Leahy, the Penn D.A. obviously felt confident that Notre Dame (one of the very rare colleges whose athletic associations were in the black) would play the game his way. And when the Fighting Irish, probably the most popular football team in America, fell into line, the others would follow...
Indeed, on June 9 Notre Dame's president, Father John J. Cavanaugh, officially "postponed" his college's decision on whether or not to submit to the N.C.A.A. program. Notre Dame stayed on the fence, and Association officials began to sweat...
...anti-trust opinion could have been rendered within a few days. But the Justice Department sat on the case. No one wanted to bring a group of universities into court. And in the stalling and sweating and waiting time the Quakers' luck ran out. Notre Dame decided that Penn was gaining nothing but a bad reputation. At the end of June, Notre Dame announced that it would be most happy to cooperate with the N.C.A.A...
Frank Leahy (Oct. 14, 1946), Notre Dame football coach, had just started a no-loss streak that lasted four years...