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...Dame football has been molded. It doesn't sound larger than life, like the Four Horsemen or the Golden Boy, players who subsequently graced the annals of the Fighting Irish. Nor does it seem of sufficient luster to be mentioned in the same sentence with Frank Leahy and Ara Parseghian, coaches who won multiple national championships and were subsequently canonized by fanatic subway alumni. Holtz would be the first to agree with all this. "All I ever wanted was a job in the mill, a car, $5 in my pocket and a girl," he says with his sly, lopsided grin...
...doubtless feeling the stress stemming from accusations that he gave money through a third party to a player at his last school, Minnesota. Holtz emphatically denies it. Now one hears the word burnout in South Bend. "Football encompasses his whole life. It's everything," says Kevin Holtz. Says Ara Parseghian, who quit, worn out, after eleven successful years: "I told him all summer, 'Please pace yourself.' " When asked what lessons he draws from the experiences of Parseghian and Leahy, who also was totally consumed by the job, Holtz merely says, "I'm a slow learner...
...cathedral of college football, the names of legendary head coaches -- Rockne, Leahy and Parseghian -- still echo. But get ready to add a new name to the list: Holtz...
...Oracko made a big kick in the '40s and an assistant coach, spotting from inside the Scoreboard, shouted joyously, "God bless you, Oracko!," weren't the fans below certain that they had heard the voice of Knute Rockne? Lately they are remembering that both Rockne and Ara Parseghian were Protestants...
Many men no more tolerant of losing than New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner (an assistant coach for Northwestern's winless 1955 team) have been unable to do much about it at North western. Ara Parseghian supplied some euphoric times in the late '50s and early '60s, when the flip-card section at Dyche Stadium reached a point of such giddiness that cards were tossed, spectators hurt and the section disbanded...