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...true game-breaker--and he'd make a fine quarterback, Defensive back, or wide-receiver. (Notre Dame Coach Lou Holtz has got to be experiencing some serious schadenfreude...
Before the game, Irish coach Lou Holtz, an old friend of Bowden's, might have wished he had F.S.U.'s quarterback Charlie Ward. Smooth and stoic, Ward is an idol on the Tallahassee campus; he was elected student-body president in his junior year. A starting point guard for the 'Noles basketball team as well as conductor of Bowden's fast-break offense, Ward sees his job as simply getting the ball to his teammates. He has done that brilliantly enough this fall, completing 69% of his passes in F.S.U.'s first nine games and throwing & for 16 touchdowns with...
...Still, Holtz figured Notre Dame had a chance. "This team has tremendous character," he said. "That goes a long way." Their character was tested in the game's first minutes, as Ward smoothly quarterbacked his fleet receivers to an early touchdown. But that seemed to get the home team's Irish up. Like a space-age tank, Notre Dame rumbled to three quick, imposing scores. F.S.U., which had humiliated its first nine opponents 205-27 in the first half, found itself inexplicably down 21-7 at intermission...
Asked why the last drive the Leopards mounted consumed so much time and in the process essentially sealed the win for the Crimson, Russo replied more like Willard Scott than Lou Holtz...
Notre Dame comes to Cambridge today. Not Lou Holtz and his gang of semi-professional athletes, but Fighting Irish Coach Bobby Baylas and his squad of racquet wizards...