Word: lattner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sinking Navy. Last week Lattner & Co. faced a fired-up Navy team which had rolled up 158 points against its opponents while yielding only 35, and which was relying heavily on its underdog chance of upsetting Notre Dame. But Notre Dame's Fighting Irish were fired up, too. Their revered Coach Frank Leahy had been rushed to the hospital with stomach spasms midway in the Georgia Tech game the week before. He would be watching them from his bedside by television. On the eve of the Navy game, Frank Leahy sent a note to his team asking that...
...downs. Then it began, the famed Notre Dame treatment that has been likened to facing Joe Louis in the ring: a series of rocking left-and-right crunches followed by a knockout. The heavy and hard-charging Notre Dame line seemed to move as one man while Halfbacks Lattner and Joe Heap and Fullback Neil Worden supplied the power punches. Usually, when...
Notre Dame needed vital first-down yardage, Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi called for Notre Dame's bread & butter boy, Johnny Lattner. In twelve carries, Johnny twisted and power-drove through Navy...
...through the scoreless first quarter, Navy reeled under the lefts and rights. Then Notre Dame delivered the knockout : a four-touchdown assault in nine minutes. During the second half, Lattner and his first-team teammates sat it out on the sidelines and let the second, third and fourth teams finish the job. Final score...
Notre Dame's winning ways are only partly attributable to talent. More important, by far. is an intangible spirit that seems-like the guttural yaaaahhrrr-to make super-players out of ordinary mortals like Johnny Lattner. In a school where the first religion is Roman Catholicism, athletics is No. 2 for the 5.401 undergraduates who live under the strictest collegiate discipline west of West Point and Annapolis. Notre Dame football players get much of their spiritual lift from the pre-game dressing-room chats by Coach Leahy. "Usually." says a lineman, "he tells us that we are a team...