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Trouble seemed to come fast. On the first play from scrimmage, a Notre Dame fumble put Navy in scoring position on the 15-yd. line. With its back to the wall and playing "For Coach," Notre Dame's defenders growled their defiant "Yaaaahhrrr" and took the ball away on downs. Then it began, the famed Notre Dame treatment that has been likened to facing Joe Louis in the ring: a series of rocking left-and-right crunches followed by a knockout. The heavy and hard-charging Notre Dame line seemed to move as one man while Halfbacks Lattner...
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...
...Yaaaahhrrr" is a legacy from Notre Dame Tackle Ziggy Czarobski, an All-America lineman in 1947, who made it his personal battle cry. Subsequent Notre Dame squads delightedly picked it up. - All Notre Dame's football games are also televised and cabled to theater outlets in many major cities, e.g., New York, Boston, Chicago. Cheering fans make such an uproar from the darkened theater seats whenever Notre Dame scores that it is often impossible to hear the announcer until after the point after touchdown. -The university is just completing a $10 million building program which includes...
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