Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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www.BLUEANDGOLD.com JANUARY 2019 17 UNDER THE DOME ND Banners & Flags BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED PO Box 2331 • Durham, NC 27702 1-800-421-7751 Visit our online store! www.BlueGoldOnline.com BANNERS (28"x40") $24.95 + $4 S&H GARDEN FLAGS $14.95 + $2 S&H (Banners and Flags are Single-Sided Display poles not included) Please add sales tax if shipping to: IN (7%), MI (6%), and NC (7.5%) LIFE IS GOOD BANNERS "Irish Football" (Item #6143) "Go Irish" (Item #6142) "Not All Who Wander Are Lost" (Item #6139) "ND Irish" Banner (Item #6138) "Mickey" Banner (Item #6135) GARDEN FLAGS Mickey (Item #6136) "ND" (Item #6137) 65 Years Ago: Dec. 11, 1953 In one of the closest Heisman Trophy votes ever, senior John Lattner is selected as Notre Dame's fourth winner in 11 seasons, all under head coach Frank Leahy, following a 9-0-1 campaign and No. 2 finish. Lattner totals 1,850 points in the voting (384 first-place votes, 283 for second) compared to Minnesota's Paul Giel with 1,794 (366 first place and 295 second). His 651 rushing yards are second on his own team to fullback Neil Worden's 859, but Lattner's all- around excellence that includes 14 catches for 204 yards, two of his eight kickoff returns ran back for touchdowns at crucial points, four interceptions and excellent tackling earn him the honor. 55 Years Ago: Dec. 14, 1963 In one of the most crucial developments in Fighting Irish football annals, Ara Parseghian is announced as the new Notre Dame football coach, following the darkest days of the program's era from 1956-63 in which it was 34-45, and 2-7 in 1963. While at Northwestern during that same span, Parseghian was 36-35-1, highlighted by a 4-0 mark versus Notre Dame. He briefly raised the once moribund Wildcats to No. 2 in 1959 and No. 1 in 1962. A Presbyterian whose father fled the Armenian genocide in 1915 and immigrated to the United States, Parseghian was the first full-time football coach hired at Notre Dame in 50 years who was not a graduate of the school. He also was the first non-Catholic since Knute Rockne, who converted in 1925. 50 Years Ago: Dec. 7, 1968 The dedication game of the newly opened Ath- letic & Convocation Center sees No. 5-ranked Notre Dame fall 88-75 to No. 1 and reigning two-time national champion UCLA, led by the peerless Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), who scores 29 points with his unstoppable sky hook shot. In his varsity debut at home, Irish sophomore guard Austin Carr tallies 26 points in the losing effort. The heralded sophomore class with the Washing- ton, D.C., trio of Carr, and forwards Collis Jones and Sid Catlett, combined with star seniors Bob Whitmore (who will be inducted into the Ring of Honor in Janu- ary), Bob Arnzen and Dwight Murphy, even has True magazine ranking the Irish as the preseason No. 1. 45 Years Ago: Dec. 31, 1973 For the first time since Jan. 1, 1925, Notre Dame wins a national title on the strength of a bowl vic- tory when it defeats No. 1 and 11-0 Alabama 24-23 in the Sugar Bowl. In the pulsating and epic battle, the lead changes hands seven times — no other football title game in college or the Super Bowl has seen such a fluctuation. Notre Dame holds on to the win after quarterback Tom Clements completes a 35-yard pass to No. 2 tight end Robin Weber on third-and-eight from his 3-yard line while under duress in his end zone with 1:56 remaining in the game. Tenth-year head coach Ara Parseghian wins his third title overall: the MacArthur Bowl in 1964 and both wire-service polls in 1966 and 1973. 10 Years Ago: Dec. 24, 2008 Notre Dame's NCAA-record nine-game losing streak in bowls that began Jan. 2, 1995 in the Fiesta Bowl is snapped when the 6-6 Fighting Irish crush 7-6 Hawai'i, 49-21, in the Hawai'i Bowl. Quarterback Jimmy Clausen completes 22 of 26 throws for 401 yards with five touchdowns, while Golden Tate catches six passes for 177 yards, and scores from 69, 18 and 40 yards. The duo is named co-MVPs. Armando Allen tallies the final Irish touchdown on a 96-yard kickoff return. — Lou Somogyi Anniversaries In Notre Dame Athletics History: Dec. 6‑31 Notre Dame's Bob Whitmore and UCLA's Lew Alcindor faced off on the opening tap at the new Athletic & Convocation Center in 1968. PHOTO COURTESY FIGHTING IRISH DIGITAL MEDIA