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Violent & Basic. The result could hardly have been less satisfactory-for Coach Ara Parseghian's Fighting Irish, for Duffy Daugherty's rugged Spartans, for the 80,011 fans packed into M.S.U.'s stadium, or for the millions who chose up sides on TV across the U.S. In 60 minutes of violent, basic football, history repeated itself. Just as in 1946, when Notre Dame and Army fought to a 0-0 tie, last week's game was an exercise in frustration. Final score: Notre Dame 10, Michigan State...
...Hanratty's conviction that he couldn't meet the entrance requirements to Penn State, Parseghian's cry of "we've got to have him," and the boy's present C+ average (with tutoring, apparently) all too clearly account for much of why Notre Dame is No. 1 in the nation today. If you want good football-so the truism goes-you have to get the players, regardless of their academic inadequacies. As the Fighting Irish return to football dominance, I wonder what is happening to the Rev. Hesburgh's drive for academic excellence...
...life into his Notre Dame attack, and maybe, just maybe, spark the Irish to the national championship he has been pining for ever since that last-game loss to Southern Cal knocked Notre Dame out of the No. 1 spot in the 1964 rankings. "Sure I want the title," Parseghian admits. "What else is there to shoot for, since we don't belong to any conference or go to post-season bowls?" In the meantime, though, he is playing it mighty cool with his sensational sophomores. "They have a lot of ability; that has been proven. Just give...
...Parseghian hadn't recognized the ability of Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour, he would have had to be the most myopic football coach between Juárez and Sault Sainte Marie. By the time they were seniors in high school, they were two of the hottest young prospects in the U.S. Both were all-conference, all-state (Terry in Pennsylvania, Jim in Michigan) and All-America. And both got scholarship feelers from more than 40 colleges...
...compliment. So the biggest thrill of his high school career was beating Beaver Falls 41-21-scoring a touchdown in the process on an 82-yd. quarterback sneak. The film of that game, forwarded to Notre Dame by a scout, may well have been the one Ara Parseghian was idly viewing one day at South Bend when he suddenly started to yell: "No. 11! Who's that No. 11? We've got to have him!" Thanks to qualms about Penn State, No. 11 was available...