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...Sport After five years of touchdown drought, Notre Dame Coach Gerry Faust resigns, and Minnesota's Lou Holtz gets...
...every irate fan in Christendom. Four days before the final game on his contract, Faust gave his notice. "Sometimes you don't know why these things happen," he said of 26 losses in 57 games, the direst total in 97 years of Irish history, outstripping even the terrible touchdown famine of Joe Kuharich. "You leave it to the Almighty. I think there was a purpose for me to be here. I enjoyed it. I had five wonderful years ... I'd do it over again...
...first and foremost students. A coach's position should not be at the mercy of last week's score or the vagaries of a single season." All the same, the essence of the place is signaled by the outstretched arms on a campus mural known to the students as "Touchdown Jesus." The statue of Father William Corby may be raising its hand to make some fine academic point or confer some important ecclesiastical blessing. Still he is known colloquially as "Fair-Catch Corby...
Notre Dame's proprietary alumni, including many people who have never been to Indiana, regard victory as the minimum goal. Probably this traces back to Rockne's "Rockette" shifts and one-on-one blocking schemes that made every play of the '20s a potential touchdown. To Irish fans, it seems a reasonable expectation. Winning too much in the '40s, Leahy was broken in the '50s by losing at all. After eleven storied years Parseghian quit in 1974, officially because his blood pressure was zooming, ostensibly because the University of Southern California came from 24 points behind to beat Notre Dame...
Dawson’s performance against Holy Cross on opening day was a pleasant surprise, 17 carries for 76 yards and one touchdown, but did not hint at his promise or his eventual impact on Harvard’s offensive system...