Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alumni, kept them supplied with choice tickets to football games. With his flashing smile and disarming frankness, Joe got along with most anyone. On a summer cruise to Europe, he spotted Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jack Johnson in the ship's lounge, promptly bounced a spitball off his massive dome. Johnson turned and glared. Kennedy smiled and introduced himself, danced with Johnson's pretty wife, and left with a card inscribed, "To Joe Kennedy, a mighty fine fellow...
...cabin stage when Rutgers and Princeton played the first intercollegiate football game in 1869. The Fighting Irish had a school cheer in 1879 ("Rah, rah! Nostra Domina"), but they did not have a team to cheer for until 1887?eight years after the famed Golden Dome of Our Lady first cast its glint across the Indiana plains. It wasn't much of a team at that; in two years, Notre Dame lost three straight to Michigan, prompting the coach to dash off a plaintive letter to Yale's Walter Camp: "Dear Sir: Will you kindly furnish me some points...
...Buckeyes' 14-game unbeaten streak, the 45-13 crushing of Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma team on nationwide TV-and the four straight victories over Notre Dame that, more than anything else, convinced the Irish that Parseghian was the man to put a new coat of gold on the dome...
...went Notre Dame's old uniforms and pads ("too heavy," he said), replaced by new lightweight gold pants, plain blue jerseys, and helmets whose color was keyed exactly to the Golden Dome itself. Out went the old split T formation, with its quarterback keepers, replaced by the pro-style slot T and the dazzling stacked I?in which three backs line up in a straight line behind the center, then shift suddenly to one side or the other. Out, too, went the old system of calling signals in the huddle. "In the pressure of the game," explains Parseghian...
Charles, And the golden dome of the Statehouse...