Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Regional or instate rivalries like Texas-Oklahoma or Miami-Florida can be among the most hotly contested. Most of the students have friends at the other schools, and the coaches annually vie for the best recruits in the area. Third are the historic grudges like Army-Navy or Notre Dame-Southern California, non-conference show-downs built on a tradition of excellent football. Any rivalry can turn a season around; a team with a losing record likes nothing better than to trip up frontrunner and it is that much sweeter if it's their rival...
...well as pranks and plots for revenge, rivalries have produced some of the most exciting college football. In 1972 sophomore Anthony Davis burst onto the national scene by scoring six touchdowns to lead the University of Southern California over Notre Dame, 45-23. Two years later the Trojans trailed 24-0 at halftime but Davis ran the second half kickoff back for a touchdown and lead a USC rally to a 55-25 drubbing...
Rippy was heavily recruited by Notre Dame, Princeton and Stanford, which sent him a letter of intent to accept a scholarship. But he says he believes "that if you were really good all through your life, when it came time for you to pass away, you would die and go to Harvard." So when his acceptance letter 'arrived from Byerly Hall, he headed straight for four years in heaven...
DIED. Pat O'Brien, 83, who played Irish cops and priests, soldiers and football coaches in some 80 films; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. His most memorable performance was as Notre Dame's famed coach in Knute Rockne, in which he exhorts the team to "go out and win one for the Gipper," played by Ronald Reagan...
...from all over the country took part in the races. Many of the crews were followed by rowdy supporters who braved the cold and rain, determined to have a good time. Champagne toting Rolls Royces to beer kegs and buckets of Bloody Marys were evidence that, as one Notre Dame fan put it. "It's a good excuse to party...