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...Christendom. Four days before the final game on his contract, Faust gave his notice. "Sometimes you don't know why these things happen," he said of 26 losses in 57 games, the direst total in 97 years of Irish history, outstripping even the terrible touchdown famine of Joe Kuharich. "You leave it to the Almighty. I think there was a purpose for me to be here. I enjoyed it. I had five wonderful years ... I'd do it over again...
DIED. Joe Kuharich, 63, coach of the Philadelphia Eagles during some of their lowest-flying years (1964-68); of a heart attack suffered as his former team lost the Super Bowl; in Philadelphia. Appointed to a 15-year term as a general manager and head coach by former Eagles Owner Jerry Wolman, Kuharich, who had previously coached the Chicago Cardinals, Washington Redskins and Notre Dame, infuriated fans by trading hometown favorites and compiling a five-year record of 28-41-1. He was replaced when Wolman sold the team...
After Leahy, the deluge. Terry Brennan took over as coach, did reasonably well (32 wins, 18 losses)?except by Notre Dame standards?and gave way to Joe Kuharich in 1959. Kuharich, a top pro coach with the National Football League's Washington Redskins, was no improvement. Over two seasons, 23 of his players had to be operated on for knee injuries. What's more, Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh (TIME cover, Feb. 9. 1962), was determinedly hauling up the school's academic standards, saw no reason to grant exemptions to football players. The upshot: Kuharich...
...answer: plenty. And no one knows it better or more bitterly than Coach Joe Kuharich, 43, a massive, jug-eared man who weighs his words as though measuring out a prescription. As a boy growing up in South Bend, Kuharich used to be shepherded into practice by Notre Dame players and get an occasional greeting from Knute Rockne himself. From 1935 to 1937 Kuharich was a sturdy and aggressive guard on some of Notre Dame's solid teams (the three-year record: 19-5). Kuharich left Notre Dame with just one ambition: to return as head football coach. Kuharich...
...five years at Notre Dame, young (30) Terry Brennan won 32 games out of 50, six out of ten in the current season. But it was not enough; he was fired and replaced by Joe Kuharich, 41, a Notre Dame alumnus, professional lineman and coach of the none-too-successful Washington Redskins. The decision outraged many a Notre Dame supporter. Snapped the Catholic and Record, weekly organ of the Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis: "The firing of Terry Brennan is a setback for the priests and laymen who are trying to remake the public image of Notre Dame from football factory...