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Hanratty and Seymour are not just a cup: they are a whole washtub-just what Ara ordered to flood new 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...
...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...
...High School in Royal Oak, Mich., about five miles north of Detroit, Football Coach Al Fracassa announced last week that he was retiring No. 42, the blue and gold jersey worn by "the greatest athlete I've seen in ten years of coaching." No. 42 had been Jim Seymour, a gangling "big little boy" who was Shrine's version of Frank Merriwell. Son of a permissive, well-to-do oil-company executive, Jim had a more than ordinarily comfortable childhood: big, luxurious house, backyard swimming pool, a guitar to play folk songs on, and later...
Sidearm & Clamp. Hanratty and Seymour hit it off together early at South Bend. They patiently took their lumps as scrubs for last year's varsity (Notre Dame does not field a freshman team); then last winter they began slipping away at night to the Notre Dame field house for some serious get-acquainted sessions. Before that very first 42-yd. pass against Purdue could be completed, there were a lot of things they had to know about each other. For instance, what kind of delivery does Hanratty prefer? "I like to throw overhand, but if I'm being...
...does Seymour catch the ball? "It all depends on how high it is. But I like to get the ball in close to my body and clamp on it"-one hand on top of the ball, the other underneath. Where does Jim prefer the pass to reach him? "Anywhere but low. I don't like to catch it down low, because my face mask hinders me." How does Seymour handle the defensive man guarding him? "The first thing I do is go out and test him. If he isn't going to back up, I run right...