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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...
...Kind of Choked Up." Johnny Lattner was imbued with the Notre Dame spirit the moment he set foot on the campus as a green freshman three years ago: "I came down that driveway and I saw that golden dome with the statue of our Blessed Mother all lighted up, and it was one of the biggest thrills of my life. I got kind of choked up, and I was awful glad I came here." The Notre Dame indoctrination, particularly of football players, is as relentless as the Marine Corps boot training. Johnny recalls: "The first night, they showed the movie...
Twenty-one-year-old Johnny Lattner has lived most of his life in a German-Irish neighborhood on Chicago's far west side. Johnny, who is of German-Irish descent himself, was a gangling, sensitive boy until he was ten or so: "I was sort of a sissy, I guess. But my pa wouldn't break up a fight if he saw me in it. He wanted me to learn." Johnny learned, and football taught him. When Johnny was in the sixth grade, his father gave him a helmet, and. like other millions of American youngsters, Johnny soon...