Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last hours of the Reagans were crammed with thunderous tributes and then dozens of tiny, human gestures of thanks. The Notre Dame football team, voted the national champion, came by and left Reagan the blue-and-gold letter sweater of George Gipp. Suddenly make-believe was real; the latter-day Gipper finally had the authentic article, and he clung to it reverently as the team departed. The apt gift touched him almost as much as anything that happened in the parting...
...most things in football, began with Paul Brown. He hired Bill Walsh in the 1960s to assist in coaching the new Cincinnati Bengals. When Walsh got his own command in San Francisco, reserve quarterback Sam Wyche followed along to tutor passers. Together Wyche and Walsh scouted and drafted Notre Dame's Joe Montana. In two triumphant Super Bowls, Montana has been the player of the game. Now he is the central figure in a third...
...Week: "One year at Arkansas we beat Oklahoma [31-6] in the Orange Bowl and the state put out a commemorative stamp with my face on it. I was impressed. The next year, we lost to Texas and people were spitting on the wrong side of the stamp."--Notre Dame football Coach Lou Holtz discussing his days as the Head Coach of Arkansas football team...
Montana was true to his word that his college experience in similar conditions 90 miles east at Notre Dame would stand him well. He threw for 199 yards in the first half alone and finished 17 of 27 for 288 yards, combining with Rice on a 62-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter and a 27-yarder in the second and also throwing a five-yarder to tight end Frank in the third...
...says John McClintock, a college adviser at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School. The best realize they are most effective working behind the scenes. Colleges do not appreciate phone calls from paid advocates. And gushing recommendations from hired imagemakers, scoffs Kevin Rooney, director of admissions at Notre Dame, "carry no weight...